Posts tagged with "pragmatic-design" (topic)
All posts tagged with "pragmatic-design" in the topic dimension.
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