Adding async/defer to WordPress site
WordPress doesn't add async or defer attributes to scripts by default and there is no easy way to do it without customization. This post will discuss how to add the attributes and why it's...
PostCSS deep dive
PostCSS is an interesting tool and ecosystem. It is a CSS processor written in Javascript. What first brought my attention to PostCSS is Autoprefixer, my go-to tool for automating adding prefixes to...
My VSCode Snippets
I love Visual Studio Code for writing anything ranging from Markdown to Javascript to PHP and even some Go and C/C++. One of the things that intrigued me the most is snippets and how they work once...
SVG and CSS for cool effects with text
In recent years there has been a lot of new features that make magazine-style layouts possible and enticing for designers to use and for developers to implement. Some of these features are quite old...
Researching Array Methods
Seeing the latest HTTP 203 from Surma and Jakke I started thinking about what other things that you can do with arrays. The most frequent use of arrays in my code is to take an array of elements and...
Feature Policies
Some of these policies may be under Origin Trials or may not be available in browsers at the time the article was written. Check Chromestatus for a list of policies that are either active or under...
HTTP Headers and Responsive Images
This is an old one but it still worries me and made me search for a possible solution in the context of web APIs without requiring a Node package manager or a Node infrastructure. I never want to make...
Centering with Flexbox
One of the most frustrating things for me is how to center things using CSS. There are many ways to do it and everyone disagrees with everyone else. It is also true that there is no one-size-fits-all...
New code for old browsers: Babel
One of the coolest things that, in my opinion, has happened in front end development is the concept of transpilation. You can transpile third-party languages like Dart or TypeScript or you can take...
Learning to query and read CrUX data
I've decided to take another look at BigQuery in the context of the Chrome User Experience Report or CrUX. The idea is that Google, through the Chrome team and tools they make available to developers,...