How Keywords Drive Helpful Content
Keyword rankings no longer guarantee organic traffic. A decade ago, we could estimate traffic to pages in…
Feeling Like I Have No Release: A Journey Towards Sane Deployments
When I was young and dinosaurs walked the earth, I worked on a software team that developed…
A New “Web” Readiness Report
The beauty of research is finding yourself on a completely unrelated topic mere minutes from opening your…
5 Content Marketing Ideas for May 2025
May is a fertile time for content marketers. The month has prominent retail holidays, including Mother’s Day….
SMIL on?
I was chatting with Andy Clarke the other day about a new article he wants to write…
Crafting Strong DX With Astro Components and TypeScript
I’m a big fan of Astro’s focus on developer experience (DX) and the onboarding of new developers….
Worlds Collide: Keyframe Collision Detection Using Style Queries
A friend DMs Lee Meyer a CodePen by Manuel Schaller containing a pure CSS simulation of one…
How to start a subscription business
Consumers spent over $31 billion globally on subscription box services in 2023 and that market is expected…
Automated Visual Regression Testing With Playwright
Comparing visual artifacts can be a powerful, if fickle, approach to automated testing. Playwright makes this seem…
The Problem with Optimizing for GenAI
Optimizing for visibility in generative AI platforms seems easy enough. Enter a sitemap URL into Bing Webmaster…
Case Study: Combining Cutting-Edge CSS Features Into a “Course Navigation” Component
I came across this awesome article navigator by Jhey Tompkins: It solved a UX problem I was…
Revisiting CSS border-image
In my last article on “Revisiting CSS Multi-Column Layout”, I mentioned that almost twenty years have flown…
Quick Reminder That :is() and :where() Are Basically the Same With One Key Difference
I’ve seen a handful of recent posts talking about the utility of the :is() relational pseudo-selector. No…
Powering Search With Astro Actions and Fuse.js
Static sites are wonderful. I’m a big fan. They also have their issues. Namely, static sites either…
A CSS-Only Star Rating Component and More! (Part 2)
In the last article, we created a CSS-only star rating component using the CSS mask and border-image…