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Ditch the developer Swiss Army Knife
Our industry loves Swiss Army Knives. The tools we tend to gravitate towards are ones that do all the things . They’re packed with features. I get the appeal…
Join the 11ty International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good
Join the 11ty International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good (it’s an 11ty Conference) In May 2024…
3 questions to evaluate design patterns and avoid unnecessary work that degrades UX
There’s a new form design trend going around: Buttons inside inputs. Anthony Hobday mentioned it by asking his audience if there was any…
The details element and in-page search - Manuel Matuzovic
An important factor in terms of UX and accessibility for deciding whether the <details> element is…
More than blogrolls
The latest edition of Matthias Ott's Own Your Web (which I recommend subscribing too!) points out that there are a lot of blogs…
The article element and screen readers
I wanted to know how and if common screen readers expose the <article> element. Here are my results…
What happened with the Web Monetization API?
I was pretty hot on it for a minute . I wanted it to succeed and thought it had the bones to make it. Coil was the main startup trying to push it. They did the…
Nicer Text Wrapping with CSS text-wrap
Let’s take a look at the CSS text-wrap property and how we can use it to improve the way text flows on a web page. We can use text-wrap: balance to tell the…
No Analytics
It was nice to see Rach talk about stripping out analytics . I stripped out my analytics years ago and while I thought I wrote about it, I can’t find where I…
I turned off analytics
I turned off the Plausible analytics for this site. I used to use analytics mostly to look for links back to my site from other creators. When I had so little…