This is a curated list of articles I've read and have shared online as I believe they are worth sharing. I aim to update this list on a weekly basis. You can keep up to date with all the links I share by revisiting this page, or alternately, you can subscribe to the RSS feed for links.
Dynamic Importing with Eleventy
After organising Eleventy filters, shortcodes etc I had an idea to tidy the code even more and make it dynamic. I wanted to automatically import any new…
The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
A few days into making One Million Checkboxes I thought I’d been hacked. What was that doing in my database? A few hours later I was tearing up, proud of some…
Gardening and code
There’s a section of my yard where not much grows. We tried to get turf grass to grow for years. Wasted a ton of time, money, and resources on seeds, water,…
Paragraphs
Consider the following: I am a paragraph. I am also a paragraph. You might hate it, but I'm a paragraph too. Even I am a paragraph. Though I'm a list item as…
The aside element
If you’re reading these HTML element guides alphabetically, you will have already read about <article> and learned what a sectioning element is.…
New Workflow for Publishing Notes: Content in Dropbox, Code in GitHub
I recently changed my workflow around authoring and publishing my site notes.jim-nielsen.com. Here’s the rundown. Before Pretty standard JAMstack type stuff.…
Blog Posts vs. Social Posts
From Emil Kowalski’s newsletter (my Feedbin cache for your convenience): I started writing more blog posts recently. I like it because it's different than X…
heading-anchors Web Component
A long time ago, I wrote an article on how to add anchor links to headings in Jekyll. It got a fair amount of interest, and I was pretty pleased with the code I…
10 Figma Keyboard Shortcuts: A Cheat Sheet for UX Designers
As a UX Designer, working efficiently is always a priority—and leveraging the full power of your design tools can help. Figma offers a plethora of keyboard…
80 / 20 accessibility
Many people are confronted with the topic of web accessibility for the first time as a result of the EAA (European Accessibility Act) (why this conftontation…