Shapes as Layout Drivers
CSS Shapes have been around for a long time and allow developers to wrap text around the shape of the image. According to MDN: The CSS shapes module describes geometric shapes that can be in CSS. For...
Revisiting Images For The Web
It's been a while since I've looked at image formats supported on web browsers. The last time I did, AVIF had recently been introduced and Apple had announced support for WebP in Safari and operating...
Creating an Eleventy Website (Part 2)
In the last post, we looked at building and configuring an Eleventy website. This post will look at creating content for the site including: Migrating old content from WordPress, creating additional...
Creating an Eleventy Website (Part 1)
I used WordPress until 2023 when I became disappointed as to the direction the project was going and how much harder blocks make it to create bespoke designs the way I'm used to. So I decided to move...
Compiling Go Programs
In all previous Go-related posts, we've just run the code using Go's run command, like so: go run main.go <parameters> But there are times when we must compile the program either for internal use...
Using Third-Party Libraries in Go
So far we've covered command-line applications that only use modules in the standard library This post will explore using third-party modules by building a conversion tool from Markdown to HTML Before...
Opening and Writing Files With Go
In the last post, we looked at how to build an API server using Go. In this post, we'll look at one part of building command line applications: how to open and write files. We'll also cover related...
Creating the Backend for a Web App in Go
I've always struggled with how to bring languages like Go and Rust into my web development work. Tooling is the easiest way to go. There is a reason why most new web development tooling is written in...
Making HTML Headers Look Nice
Headings can show orphan issues that can cause readability issues. In this context, an orphan is a single word (or syllable) that sits at the bottom of a paragraph of text. As a developer, you don't...
Hanging punctuation in CSS
Chris Coyuer wrote about the hanging punctuation CSS property, how it works and why it may be useful. This property controls the pulling of characters, usually quotation marks, from the body of the...