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Ice clings to the window of my car after an ice storm.
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Don’t drive screws with a hammer

Sometimes developers will solve problems with the handy tool, not the right tool, just because it seems like less work. It's probably not.

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The Regrettable State of Cross-Browser Testing

Update-by-default has pushed the platform forward, but has also put browser testing out of reach for many

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Uptake of the new CSS seems slow. Why?

There’s so much great new stuff in CSS, some of it with extraordinary support. Why aren’t people leaping on it?

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Adventures in VIM part 2

The continuing story of migrating my brain from VSCode to vim

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Adventures in VIM part 1

Some thoughts on the first view days using neovim

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Seeking a new editor

Some thoughts about changing up my typical toolset

Popovers and Dialogs, a (kinda) case study

The differences (and similarities) of the new Popover API and the Dialog element.

Some rules about making rules

My first one is “never call them rules.”

Is CSS a programming language?

And why does it seem to matter to so many people?

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AI, computers, and looms

We seem to be very selective about whose jobs deserve to be automated.

“Keeping up” should not be an extracurricular activity.

Businesses that don’t strive for perfect efficiency are more creative and have happier employees.

Using modern font stacks

Goodbye Google Fonts, hello (again) system fonts

Maybe sometimes you should use pixels

The conventional wisdom is that you should not use pixel units, but maybe sometimes you should?

Thudfactor has gone super retro

An explanation and apology of sorts for things looking like 1992 around here.

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Real punctuation for programmers

How to give your UI a more polished look just by using the correct punctuation.

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The underappreciated reason Google is useless

Search Engines have been overwhelmed by SEO spam, but is the struggling open web part of the problem?