Having that first response from the server to users browsers be, ya know, full of good, useful, renderable HTML is certainly better than an empty <div id=”app”>. You can feel it and see it in the filmstrip view of the site loading. Not to mention you need it for at least things like <meta> tags […]

Stephen and Chris chat about how the 2.0 editor (well, the compiler really) understands and supports Browserslist, a config format that lives in your package.json file that multiple blocks can understand and make browser support decisions against. Sponsor: Notion With the recent launch of Custom Agents, Notion became the collaborative AI workspace where teams and […]

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 […]