Our very own Stephen Shaw was on an episode of Web Dev Challenge on CodeTV: Build the Future of AI-Native UX in 4 Hours. I started watching this on my computer, but then moved to my living room couch to put it on the big screen. Because it deserves it! It honestly feels like “real” […]

Pins are dead! Long live bookmarks! Pins was never a good name for the feature we have on CodePen where you can mark a Pen or Collection to more quickly jump back to it from anywhere on the site. The word is too similar to “Pen” that it’s just awkward, not to mention it’s not […]

It’s such a small, simple thing, but I’m very grateful that we’re getting “Gap Decorations” in CSS. Microsoft is working on “gap decorations” and have put together a nice playground to explore them, and I had a play. The idea is drawing lines where gaps would be, rather than empty space. It’s really quite well done with lots of control […]

Hi! We’re back! Weird right? It’s been over 2 years.  We took a break after episode 400, not because we ran out of things to talk about, but because we were so focused on our CodePen 2.0 work, it got old not being able to discuss it yet. We’ll be talking plenty about that going forward. But […]

Mr. Brad Frost, and his brother Ian, have a new course they are selling called Subatomic: The Complete Guide to Design Tokens. To be honest, I was a smidge skeptical. I know what a design token is. It’s a variable of a color or font-family or something. I pretty much only work on websites, so […]

I like the term “content aware components” like Eric Bailey uses in the Piccalilli article Making content-aware components using CSS :has(), grid, and quantity queries. Does a card have a photo? Yes, do one thing, no, do another. That sort of thing. Eric has some good examples where a UI component has a bunch more […]

First a quick heads up about… me. I have a weird itch to do “streaming”, so I’m letting myself just be a hardcore beginner and giving it a shot. The plan is just hang out with whoever shows up and make stuff and talk about front end web development and design. So: Seems like those […]

Somebody with good taste could’ve made my website, but then it wouldn’t be mine. My website is ugly because I made it — Taylor Troesh I love weird design ideas. Probably because so much of what we need to do as web designers is, appropriately, somewhat serious. We want things to be simple, clear, professional, […]

Let’s do typography stuff!

This is a great story from Dan North about “The Worst Programmer I know”, Tim MacKinnon. It’s a story about measuring developer performance with metrics: We were working for a well-known software consultancy at a Big Bank that decided to introduce individual performance metrics, “for appraisal and personal development purposes”. This was cascaded through the […]