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The song Revolution by Pennywise came out 13 years ago, but the song feels more relevant than ever today. In particular, the bridge, where the guitar drops out so it's just that deep punk bass and 1-2 drum beat, really hits me emotionally. The lyrics ...

Something I've been noticing a lot lately is that over time, so many content creators become caricatures of themselves. You start off kind of eclectic, writing or talking about stuff you enjoy. One little slice of what you talk about really resonates ...

As part of my build-out of Kelp's web component library, I had a problem. I was create two components that might conflict with each other. Or they might not. It really depended on the order in which they instantiated. Today, I want to share how I ...

Today, I wanted to share how I configure esbuild to create bundled both JavaScript and CSS files for my projects. Let's dig in! esbuild vs. other options I recently added pre-bundled CSS and JavaScript files to Kelp, my UI library for people who love ...

I see a lot of developers over-optimize or prematurely optimize their code. Adding linting and testing and type-checking and transpilation and continuous integration and feature flags and an edge network can be powerful engineering tools. And when a ...

Years ago, I was staunchly in the "minify your code, even if you use gzip" camp. But these days, I've switched teams! I did some tests on the bundled version of Kelp UI. Unminifed: 58.2kb Minified: 43kb Unminified + gzipped: 8.2kb Minified + gzipped: ...

About a month ago, I wrote a series of articles about modular CSS, compression algorithms like gzip and brotli, and why modular files and compression don't play well together. Based on all of this, I ended up including both pre-built and modular ...

I finally got a chance to work with the :has() CSS pseudo-class as part of Kelp, my UI library for people who love HTML. Today, I wanted to quickly look at what it is and how it works. Let's dig in! If an element has a child or sibling, style the ...

Last month, I did some testing on Kelp's performance and found that because compression algorithms rely on repeated patterns, smaller modular files reduce the effectiveness of gzip and brotli. Based on this, I'm release two versions of Kelp: a pre .. ...

Back when I was in school for Anthropology, I had a professor who taught half the year, and spent the other half doing research projects for the United Nations (UN). He told us this story about how one year, the UN learned about a fishing village in ...