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A few months back, I shared the Kelp Commons License. It's a fair-code license I created for Kelp, my HTML-first UI library. One of the big appeals of fair-code over "true" open source for me was that you can restrict how your software is used. For . ...

I'm currently re-reading A Prayer for the Crown Shy, book 2 in the Monk & Robot series by Becky Chambers. The book explores themes of craft and meaning and purpose, and what happens when something that used to be deeply fulfilling no longer is. This ...

Today, I wanted to share how I built my own DIY Netlify that I use to host over a dozen sites for just $10/month, with way more control and much faster build times. Let's dig in! The Netlify Revolution A few years back, Netlify helped usher in the .. ...

Last month, I wrote about how to dismiss native HTML dialog elements when the backdrop is clicked using the [closedby] attribute. My buddy Konnor Rogers shared a great little trick for handling it in browsers that don't have support yet. By default, ...

With modal components, it's common/expected to prevent the background from scrolling. /** * Prevent background scrolling with a modal dialog is open */ html:has(dialog[open]:modal) { overflow: hidden; } However, if your page was long enough that ...

Sometimes, it really hurts to think about how much the world lost with Tupac's death (29 years ago last weekend). His music was literal poetry over beats. He was nuanced and beautiful and scary and problematic and kind and complex. He was brilliant. ...

I'm an outgoing introvert. This weekend, I went to a mid-day concert a friend was performing in. Afterwards, we went back to a mutual friend's house to eat pizza and hang out. I was super chatty and met a couple of new people that I was having some . ...

If you're a craftsperson who sells the output of your craft, there's a constant tension between building things well and building things faster/cheaper. If you work for a product or software company, there's pressure to add more features in less time ...

Earlier today, I was thinking about how different my "career wants" are from I typically see as the norm or best practices or whatever. I suspect this is partially because of my ADHD, and partially because I'm pretty damn senior at this point and my ...

I've worked on so many projects recently that were more complicated than they needed to be because they used JavaScript to generate HTML. JavaScript is Slower to load Slower to run More prone to breaking Harder to read and reason about Doesn't ...