2023

Reflections on my ambivalence towards RSS

Key to the frames from each of the ten films I shared on Mastodon as part of #10Films

A response to Dave Rupert’s “So you’ve been publicly accessibility-shamed”

An implementation of a toggle button group, or segmented control using Web Components

An inventory of the go-bag I put together for my family

It’s become hard to enjoy my birthday whenever it rolls around because I often end up feeling like I never enjoy it enough

A brief look at the tools I use daily to help manage my life

We do not, individually, have the responsibility or the wherewithal to fix every problem we encounter. Offering criticism because you genuinely want to see something improve is acting in good faith, and that is enough.

Allow me to try to ruin this song for you.

Two cents on the topic of native visually hidden elements for the web. You didn’t ask for it, but I delivered anyway.

Social media is the largest, never-ending party that no one is hosting

A look at some of the changes I made to my website as a result of the debate surrounding the need for a native “.visually-hidden” mechanism.

I was surprised to find myself thinking that I might prefer being a manager to coaching an LLM to write code for me.

The other day, Andy Bell published a great post about how developer experience is a poor excuse for building shitty websites and it got me thinking, “What even is ‘developer experience’? Is it necessarily at odds with user experience?”

A response (of sorts) to Robb Owen’s “Hand-thrown frontends”.

Should you worry when the skullhead is in front of you, or is it worse because it's always waiting where your eyes don't go?

TKTKTK

Too many hobbies. Too many ideas for fun side projects. Having all of these ideas in my head about things I’d like to do starts to become a real weight.