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Consent, LLM scrapers, and poisoning the well
remember feeling numb learning that my writing had been sucked up by OpenAI. It came out of nowhere and was done without my permission or consent. I have a…
Quick Trick: Using border-image to Apply and Overlay Gradient
I was watching Kevin Powell and Adam Argyle rapidfire through 23 CSS features. They are all cool tricks, but one stood out to me. Even as an extreme CSS…
Compounding complexity in modern web development
I’d wager that most of the developers who build modern websites and web apps don’t start off thinking… I’m going to make this as complex as possible. Most of…
Basic, beautiful, and buildless
I’m a big fan of the static site builder Eleventy. I’ve found the ability to put together a small site or landing page with minimum effort and complexity to be…
Maybe Don’t Name That Landmark
TL;DR: You probably don’t need to name that landmark. The Ngong Ping Village tourist trap on Hong Kong’s Lantau Island. All the pricey tourist…
Managing My Motivation, as a Solo Dev
One of the biggest sticking points of being a solo dev is maintaining motivation. I’ve been keeping a journal entry about how to hack my motivation, what works…
Modular CSS and different ways to structure your stylesheets
This week, I’ve written about classless vs. class-based CSS , and how I approach CSS architecture . I’ve also written a fair bit recently about how I’m starting…
The challenge with Netlify, Vercel, Cloudflare, and so on
The other day, I wrote about how every dependency is a potential vulnerability. While that article as about third-party libraries and frameworks, you can make a…
Animation With Registered Custom Properties
Day 104: animation with registered custom properties posted on 02.11.2023 It’s time to get me up to speed with modern CSS. There’s so much new in CSS that I…
Why You Should Use px Units for margin, padding, & Other Spacing Techniques
Why are CSS margin and padding so closely related? The CSS margin and padding properties are often talked about together for two reasons: They both affect…