From Jeremy Keith’s piece “Responsibility”: Dropping in one line of JavaScript seems like a victimless crime. It’s just one small script, right? But JavaScript can import more JavaScript. “It’s just o

The key to side project success Posted on: 31 October 2023 Most start-ups fail. Intuitively, they fail because they run out of money. But what’s the biggest reason for this? The Lean Startup, by Eric Ries, speculates it’s because too many companies build the wrong product for the wrong people. He…

It’s so easy to start with the question, “What should I do?” And end up with a discussion about other people and what they’re doing. Here’s Paul Ford: I’ll give you a good example. Do you go out and raise venture capital? Well, it would be nice to have more money. But then everybody tells us that VC…

CSS has been undergoing a quiet renaissance lately. Lots of big features which previously required an external tool to use, are now native parts of the language, and its growing more and more all the

Imagine someone came to you in a time machine and said, “In the future we will write software that becomes more capable as time passes without any effort on our part.” Wouldn’t that be amazing? Surely

The problem Readers Of The Blog™ may know that I have been experimenting with the View Transitions API as a way to provide animations in my new portfolio site. Once I understood the basics of how View

I wanted to experiment with the new CSS function light-dark() and get a sense of how to use it in a CSS architecture of nested (web) components. I think it’s going to be a powerful tool in the new res