How opinionated is too opinionated?
Part of my love/hate relationship with Rails is that I think it is too opinionated for its own good. It makes it easier for people to write apps if you accept the opinions that DHH and the Rails...
Text Shadows in CSS
I've always liked shadows as a way to give depth to content that would otherwise be flat and uninspiring. My first approach at creating shadows in CSS was to use box-shadow, primarily in title boxes...
CSS aspect ratio
In replaced elements, aspect ratio is the ratio of the width to the height of an image. Until recently we had to rely on the browser's calculations of "implicit" aspect ratios. Over time...
The :any-link selector
The :any-link styles all a elements with an href attribute. This allows us to target all links in a document, regardless of location or parents. This is particularly useful when playing with...
Underlines in CSS
CSS provides ways to play with the underline of elements beyond removing the underline from links and only showing it on hover. CSS Text Decoration Module Level 4 provides four longhand properties one...
Object-fit and background-size
One very frustrating thing when working with images on the web is when you're trying to fit an image into a container. If the image has different dimensions and aspect ratio than the container, the...
Building a website to host Codelabs
Introduction # I use Codelabs to document processes and step-by-step instructions for given processes or topics. However, unlike tools for authoring codelabs, there is no real way to author a codelabs...
Building a backend using Express.js
A lot of times when I try a new front-end technology or decide to work with a new framework, I need a backend to work with. For the longest time, I've used a project database hosted locally but I've...
Revisiting WebAssembly with Go
It's been a while since I've looked at WebAssembly and Go. Some things have changed since then and I want to document them as I revisit them. Some of these changes deal with the evolution of Go as a...
Gutenberg review: blocks
In a previous post I briefly discussed how to configure blocks and themes using JSON files. The emphasis of that post was on theme configuration and briefly mentioned block.json in passing as a way to...