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Web whetstones 🔗

How do you stay sharp as a web developer and/or designer? I’ll share my advice below. I’m also looking for front-end folk to advise me too. What are y [...]

Surveys will continue until diversity improves 🔗

The web and tech industry is a veritable sausage party. We don’t need surveys to prove it but we have surveys to prove it. State of surveys have been [...]

Unscrewing lightbulbs 🔗

Giving lightbulbs a MAC address was a mistake that I’m living with. “I’m literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease @dbushell.com - Blu [...]

GitHub is sinking 🔗

TL;DR: GitHub used to be cool and now it’s a lame slop graveyard. GitHub is racing towards the mythical zero nines of uptime. Users are starting to no [...]

Alternative thoughts 🔗

My regular schedule of CSS and HTML tips will return after this brief look at the sorry state of the web and tech industry. It’s grim. “Our press secr [...]

RSS Club #007: Running 🔗

Today Sabastian Sawe ran an historic sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race. A marathon is around 42 kilometres, aka 26 miles in freedom units (w [...]

Web tools are cool 🔗

My website has a new page! The /uses URL pathname is an “official” slash page. I’m only listing web tools I use for now. My default apps change too fr [...]

Warning: containment breach in cascade layer! 🔗

CSS cascade layers are the ultimate tool to win the specificity wars. Used alongside the :where selector, specificity problems are a thing of the past [...]

No-stack web development 🔗

This year I’ve been asked more than ever before what web development “stack” I use. I always respond: none. We shouldn’t have a go-to stack! Let me ex [...]

CSS subgrid is super good 🔗

I’m all aboard the CSS subgrid train. Now I’m seeing subgrid everywhere. Seriously, what was I doing before subgrid? I feel like I was bashing rocks t [...]

I quit. The clankers won. 🔗

… is what I’m reading far too often! Some of you are losing faith! A growing sentiment amongst my peers — those who haven’t already resigned to an NPC [...]