Finding the typeface you need is a whole thing. You’ll know it when you see it is one approach. Look at a lot of choices. Make sure to save ones that you think are really nice, even if they aren’t the winner this time. On my local machine, I use an app called Typeface. I […]

I’ve had View Transitions on the mind a little bit after experimenting with using them to move the focus ring around the page. I found that pretty satisfying, except the part where I was binding events to the tab key myself and keeping track of “focusable” elements. I know better, as that kind of thing […]

As we’re getting close to rounding out the Beta period of the 2.0 editor, we’re trying to close out any bugs we find or users report quickly. They could be browser-support related, network conditions related, account capability related, or just bugs in how the 2.0 editor and technology behind it works. It’s complicated enough that […]

There is an airport in Bend, Oregon where I live. We’ve got a proper one in Redmond, the next town over, but a little baby municipal one here in Bend. There is a cafe there that I’m only just hearing about: Bend Airport Cafe. Looks nice, I should go! I’m mentioning it for another reason,though. […]

<script type=”importmap”> Import Maps are pretty great! You get to write import thing from “place”; and then you get to map what you mean by “place”. You could map it to a file in your project somewhere, that way you’ve got one place to update it and update it everywhere that imports it. Or you […]

The 2.0 Editor can support hundreds of files per Pen, not to mention folders mixed in which don’t count toward that total. This can be pretty weighty on the DOM and thus adversely affect performance. Especially as each file/folder has children, a variety of event listeners, are drag and drop enabled, etc. “Virtualizing” data like […]

I love ideas that feel clearly better than what was before. I used to feel that way about curved shower curtain bars. Like, instead of the shower curtain being perfectly straight against the edge of the shower, it curves outward. No harm in functionality, but it gives more space inside the shower. It’s just better. […]

Stephen and Chris hop on the ol’ podcast to talk about all the ways that Templates are way better in 2.0 land. You’ve always been able to make your own templates, but now you can select one even after you’ve arrived in the editor. There is a new place (the create page) which features bookmarked […]

In Fixing the URL params performance penalty, Barry Pollard sets up a very clear real-world conundrum. The content at these two URLs is probably the same: The content at these two URLs is probably not: Who cares? Cache cares. Because content with different query params might be different, the various tech that deals with caching […]

Alex and Chris talk about how the 2.0 Editor supports packages from npm. The trick is both simple and complex. The idea is simple. We detect the packages you want to use, list them in an (editable) package.json file, then turn that into a <script type=”importmap”> in your HTML files that import those packages from […]