Posts tagged with "pragmatic-design" (topic)
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Art sources
Good places to find free(ish) artwork for blog posts.
Ghost (and back again)
After years of running static sites, I had a brief flirtation with a hosted service.
AI wants to do your work. Ask it to teach you instead.
What happens when you ask AI to slow you down instead of speed you up?
CSS guide: parents should tell children where to sit
The principle that reshaped how I wrote CSS.
Interactivity without JavaScript
Bejofo reworks their JavaScript game to run without JavaScript, which is an interesting experiment — and reinforces my biggest concern about modern web development hosting infrastructure.
The blog post image conundrum
I’m always having a debate with myself about how to handle images for blog posts — and whether they need images at all.
Why does work expand?
Ever heard that “work expands to fill the time available”? Let's dig into why that’s only half the story — and what Parkinson’s Law gets wrong about how real work (and real people) actually operate.
On Zombies
Writing a game in Javascript, HTML, and CSS as "vanilla" as I can manage.
Markup for fancy headings
How to mark up elaborate headline structures
I Like JavaScript
Regardless of what you think about it, JavaScript is a crucial part of the platform.
Some rules about making rules
My first one is “never call them rules.”
Is CSS a programming language?
And why does it seem to matter to so many people?
“Keeping up” should not be an extracurricular activity.
Businesses that don’t strive for perfect efficiency are more creative and have happier employees.
Using modern font stacks
Goodbye Google Fonts, hello (again) system fonts
Maybe sometimes you should use pixels
The conventional wisdom is that you should not use pixel units, but maybe sometimes you should?
Thudfactor has gone super retro
An explanation and apology of sorts for things looking like 1992 around here.
Real punctuation for programmers
How to give your UI a more polished look just by using the correct punctuation.
User-initiated element resizing in CSS
CSS offers a browser-native way to make elements resizable, but it comes with a lot of limitations.
Article typography
Three CSS typography properties to improve your site’s readability