Stuff I write about

• Old man yelling at a cloud

  June 28, 2023 Front-end development really became a pop culture around big company frameworks. It has become an investor-focused industry.

• Engineering, UX design and the value stream

  February 20, 2023 updated! Understanding how to make better technology, framework, and library decisions in front-end development

• State machines and state management

  December 8, 2021 updated! State management is one of the most complicated, and opinionated topics in modern and JavaScript-focused front-end development. Let's make it easier.

• Different approaches to fluid typography and layouts

  March 7, 2023 Fluid web page design can be more user-friendly, because it adjusts to the user's set up. There are several approaches to achieving this.

• Hiding side content in responsive design

  February 24, 2023 A trick to hide content in specific responsive layout patterns without the need for media queries. But with a few gotchas.

• Use the child-element count in CSS

  February 21, 2023 A little CSS trick to get a count of child elements on your parent selector.