Notes on building things for the web.
Long-form posts about front-end work, written by someone who would rather explain one thing properly than list ten.
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- Line length matters more than the font you picked Everyone argues about typefaces. Almost nobody sets a measure, which is the decision that actually determines whether your writing gets read.
- Custom properties are a layout tool, not a colour store Most codebases use CSS variables as a list of hex codes. They cascade, which makes them considerably more interesting than that.
- What I check before calling a page finished A short list I run every time: 320 pixels wide, keyboard only, JavaScript off, and a phone on bad signal.