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A child screams in the back while a father desperately tries to prevent the police from brutalizing his family. But they threw rocks.

Everyone else has been talking about Tailwind CSS lately so I might as well jump on this bandwagon. And, actually, I've not seen anyone state my point of view on it yet so I have something to add.

You like sprites? I like sprites. So I wanted to make see how easy it would be to make an animation from a sprite sheet. Turns out it's super easy, barely an iconvenience.

I recently decided to fully rebuild my blog from the ground up using Next.js. By default, there's no built-in support to auto-generate an RSS for blog posts like there are in so many starters for Gatsby. As such I needed to roll my own.

There's something to be said about having a task that you can do with your hands and following directions that blocks everything else out.

Drop caps can present a unique challenge for accessibility. It may seem like a simple enough design feature to implement on a site, but given that the CSS for actual drop cap support is presently only implemented in Safari we have to get a bit hacky.

Drop caps can present a unique challenge for accessibility. It may seem like a simple enough design feature to implement on a site, but given that the CSS for actual drop cap support is presently only implemented in Safari we have to get a bit hacky.

A common misconception I see is that responsive web development means loading up your CSS files with media queries for everything.

Sometimes you just need a element to shrink or grow in height proportionally with the width.

CSS Frameworks like Bootstrap, Foundation, and Bulma help us describe our HTML in terms of layout structure and components, but I'm not a fan of that approach.

My solution to the so called "Impossible Layout".

I’ve been working on a component library at work for about 6 months now. I want to detail some of the work and thought that went into building these components.

Earlier this year I was tasked with developing a method of evaluating developer skill for potential new hires.

This week I read something that stuck with me. It gnawed at me and it took me a long time to figure out exactly why it bothered me. It was a tweet by J.K. Rowling, who has grown increasingly problematic lately.

What even is a real developer? It’s a concept I have to battle a lot as a developer myself and as a manager and trainer of other devs.

CSS Frameworks like Bootstrap, Foundation, and Bulma help us describe our HTML in terms of layout structure and components, but I'm not a fan of that approach.

One of the most annoying things on the web is when a dropdown opens on hover and you move the most diagonally into the dropdown, but in doing so the dropdown disappears because I stopped hovering over the zone that triggers the dropdown to appear.

Indiana Jones killed so many Nazis, like, if it were anyone other than Nazis you would say it bordered on excessive