A GitHub content editor
Prose is a service that connects with any GitHub repo you want, and then lets you edit Markdown and plain text files directly from a dedicated text editor. Particularly useful for people using GitHub […]
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Classic rock, Mario Kart, and why we can't agree on Tailwind
Josh may have written the perfect article on Tailwind. As someone who has also spent quite a lot of time (both professionally and personally) working with Tailwind, I couldn't agree more, […]
A static-site CMS that runs in VS Code
A clever, open-source CMS designed for static site generators like Eleventy, Astro, and Hugo which use Markdown files and frontmatter metadata. The CMS itself runs directly in your IDE, giving you a […]
Accessible chart & data library
Easily the most comprehensive and impressive charting and data visualisation library I've come across. Graphs and charts are keyboard accessible, well-labelled, meaningfully marked up, with colour […]
Convert Markdown to RTF online
A brilliant tool: paste in some Markdown and it will display the converted Rich Text in the preview window. You can then copy this and paste into any RTF editor and hey presto, no more annoying […]
SVG crop
An absolutely fantastic little utility site that takes pretty much any SVG and removes all of the white space. You can drag'n'drop, upload image files, or just paste markup directly into a text […]
Marking up a Tracklist
Is an album's tracklist better suited for a table or a list? The answer may surprise you! (But it probably won't).
Visit for a surprise
How should a Rick Roll link (obviously hidden from sighted users) be marked up for assistive technology? That's the question Eric is answering, and the result can be summed up as: preserve the […]
Are you serious?
An interesting discussion from the peeps on Cortex on the mindset it takes to achieve big goals (around the 50-minute mark). Lots of people talk about "writing their novel" or "fixing x […]
The weirdly obscure art of Streamed HTML
A fascinating series looking into how to turn a modern React eCommerce front end into as fast a page as possible. The conclusions are not what I had […]
I, Influencer
The tale of my (possibly brief) foray into the world of tech reviews and market influencers.
The grift economy
A wonderfully sarcastic and extremely well-reasoned takedown of everything from software subscriptions to marketing deceptive patterns to NFTs 👍 […]
So Long, LG
I'm a proud owner of an LG V20, despite the phone's age. With LG's sudden decision to exit the mobile phone market, I've been thinking about why I love this phone, and what I'll do now if it ever dies.
Dispatching webmentions with a Netlify build plugin
I've been trying to get this working since the Beta of Netlify plugins, and along comes Mark with a fully working example 😂 Definitely want to look into the source code (GitHub) and see if I can […]
I think I might be a design engineer...
I can see this article becoming an oft-cited "turning point" in frontend development, like Ethan Marcotte's A List Apart post on responsive design. It's certainly a beautifully crafted […]
The markup de-crapulator
A humorous but useful tool that strips out all the mess that things like Styled Components and React make out of HTML and lets you properly view the source of a page. (and yeah, I use those same […]
Microformat examples
I've been battling microformats a lot recently, wish I'd found this page of best practice markup examples earlier, it's a great […]
You can't stop us
I mean damn the latest Nike video is astonishingly well […]