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Human culture--and in particular American culture--is littered with stories about great individuals who did great things. The hero. The rugged individual. But the reality is that change requires community. One person can't actually change all that .. ...

Earlier this week, I wrote about how I'm building a UI library for people who love HTML. I also published a YouTube video about it. I got a lot of excited responses and comments about it, but also a noteworthy handful asking something along the lines ...

I just opened up a few spots for my subscription front-end engineering service. Last year, I started offering this as a way for organizations and small teams to get expert on-demand web development for a simple fixed monthly price. Here's how it ...

In response to my article yesterday about how open source is kind of broken, one of my readers introduced me to the idea of fair-code. Fair-code is not a software license. It describes a software model where software: is generally free to use and can ...

Yesterday, I mentioned that I'm working on a Web Component UI library for people who love HTML. One thing I've been mindful of as I work through this project is how very broken and exploitative the open source ecosystem is, both as a maintainer of .. ...

I'm building a Web Component UI library for people who love HTML. Framework agnostic. Easily customizable. Use with pre-built styles or go "naked" and roll-your-own. Today, I wanted to talk about what that looks like, and why I think it's a better .. ...

Today, I've been thinking about how the industry could use a progressively enhanced HTML Web Component library. Something that's less a whole framework and more like Legos you can mix-and-match as needed. Let's dig in! The idea I'm imagining a system ...

One of my favorite things about CSS is how it just automatically does stuff that you need to manually do in JavaScript. A good example of that is detecting changes to media queries. Let's dig in! An example: prefers-reduced-motion The Reduced Motion ...

HLS, or HTTP Live Streaming, is an efficient video streaming protocol that can adapt to network conditions. I was recently working on a project where I needed to use an HLS format video (the .m3u8 file extension) for a background video: muted, ...

Yesterday, I watched a Thought Slime video on how fascists waste your time. The big takeaway from the video, at the 32:10 mark, is that your response to any fascists saying anything anywhere should always be Shut up, you're being an asshole. Anything ...