Control Layout in a Multi-Directional Website

Many business websites need a multilingual setup. As with anything development-related, implementing one in an easy, efficient, and maintainable way is desirable. Designing and developing to be ready for multiple languages, whether it happens right at launch or is expected to happen at any point in ..

On User Tracking and Industry Standards on Privacy

Inspired by Eva PenzeyMoog’s new book, Jeremy highlights the widespread user tracking situation in this industry: There was a line that really stood out to me: The idea that it’s alright to do whatever unethical thing is currently the industry norm is widespread in tech, and dangerous. It stood ou..

CSS “decorations”

A reader wrote to me the other day asking about this bit of CSS they came across in Wikipedia’s Common.css: .mw-collapsible-leftside-toggle .mw-collapsible-toggle { /* @noflip */ float: left; /* @noflip */ text-align: left; } What’s that @noflip business? That’s what they are calling a “CSS de..

Responsive Layouts, Fewer Media Queries

We cannot talk about web development without talking about Responsive Design. It’s just a given these days and has been for many years. Media queries are a part of Responsive Design and they aren’t going anywhere. Since the introduction of media queries (literally decades ago), CSS has evolved to th..

Reimagine Atomic CSS

I’m not the biggest fan of Atomic CSS myself. I don’t like all the classes. I like to express my styles in CSS because I find CSS… good. But I appreciate that a lot of people seem to like it, and it does have some clear advantages, like the fact that the generated stylesheet is generally smaller tha..

Coding Font Game

A tournament bracket UI where you pick your favorite between two coding fonts and your choices are whittled down all the way to a final winner. A clever way to suss out your own taste and arrive at a choice. (P.S. We have our own little coding fonts website to showcase some high-quality favorites.)..

Parallax Powered by CSS Custom Properties

Good friend Kent C. Dodds has recently dropped his new website which had a lot of work go into it. I was fortunate enough that Kent reached out a while back and asked if I could come up with some “whimsy” for the site. ✨ One of the first things that drew my attention was the large image of Kody (🐨)..

The Many Faces of VS Code in the Browser

VS Code is built from web technologies (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript), but dare I say today it’s mostly used a local app that’s installed on your machine. That’s starting to shift, though, as there has been an absolute explosion of places VS Code is becoming available to use on the web. I’d say it’s ki..

PHP Date and Time Recipes

Dealing with dates and times is one of those things that can frustrate programmers a lot. At the same time, they are fundamental to software development, used from everything from meta and how things are ordered to time-based triggers and lots in between. Dates and times are prone to errors too. Ha..

Zero Trickery Custom Radios and Checkboxes

I feel like half of all “custom-designed radio buttons and checkboxes” do two things: Make them biggerColorize them I always think of SurveyMonkey for having big chunky radios and checkboxes. And indeed, just poking at their interface quickly, even internally, the app uses has those all over the p..