Rethinking categorisation
I always enjoy hearing others' thoughts on taxonomies, and Lea's ideas are well thought through and come with some interesting challenges (and findings) around using hackable URLs, folksonomies, and […]
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Creative Google fonts
100 separate typographic designs, all using free Google fonts, with some absolutely stunning results. What Do-Hee has put together is one of the best showcases for Google's font library, as well as […]
Indieweb privacy challenges
The IndieWeb was designed to be a better option for privacy, users, content authorship, and the open web. I think it largely meets those goals, but Sebastian has put together some excellent points on […]
2020 Challenges: Mid-Year Update
We're almost at the midway point of 2020, so I thought it would be a good moment to take a look at my New Year's challenges list and see how things were going.
Code Institute's 5 day coding challenge reviewed
Some thoughts on Code Institute's "5 Day Coding Challenge", having just completed it.
Learning resource for the modern web
An excellent collection of articles, tutorials, and advice on modern web development challenges. From PWAs to accessibility to caching, there's a lot of information […]
2019: The Year of Craft JAM
A look back and a look forward... it must be the start of a new year. 2019 held a lot of change and personal improvement, but I can't help but feel that 2020 is going to be a big one. So what exactly do I have planned and what am I hoping for the next 12 months?
Grid Lock
An attempted experiment to replicate the blog layout of ilovetypography.com, which uses floats to great effect, with more modern CSS Grid and Flex techniques. Turned out to not be quite so simple, but taught me a lot about the benefits and limitations of CSS Grid.
New Year, New Rules
Well, we did it: we made it to 2019! 🎉 […]
The New 52: A Summary [#52]
So the end is nigh. Fifty-two weeks, fifty-nine articles, two failures and the most complete challenge I've ever set myself. Sure, I may not have managed to write once a week, every week, during 2017 […]
Remember: Anger Leads to the Dark Side [#51]
It is Christmas Eve and the penultimate week of the New 52 challenge! There's a nice symmetry to that, which, of course, is why I picked today to write a post... and nothing to do with it being the […]
A Gap in Time [#25]
My last post was on the 8th. Today is the 20th. Do you see a little problem there? In short: 12 days are longer than a week. Sad […]
The New 52: A Challenge [#1]
Well it's a new year and that means a new challenge: The New […]
Take Two
This isn’t defeat, the challenge is still rolling […]
Ground rules.
100 words for 100 days: that is my challenge! Well, sort of. In reality, though I like the 100 word restriction, I'm not so sure about it as a […]
100 x 100
100 words a day, for 100 days. That's the challenge that Jeremy Keith has just completed, inspiring my own […]