Don't use CSS minifiers with SASS

CSS minifiers do not make a big difference after compression using brotli or gzip. Benchmark results: | name |…

Effective altruism

It’s common for people to people with good intentions to donate to causes they can directly see the benefit from. It is…

Better cross browser buttons

You would hope it would: You would hope they could: Except... the <button> tag doesn't do this. At least, not…

The dark art of CSS media queries

No area of web development has left me more bemused than the parsing logic of CSS media queries. It’s been 2 years…

Reading every word on Wikipedia using Node.js

Originally, when I set out to do this, I thought it would take a day or two at most. I wanted to get a frequency count…

Custom fonts when browsing the web

This article describes a method to replace old, ugly or inaccessible sans-serif fonts on websites with an excellent…

Human Text Interaction

Some tools and devices are far more developed than others. Typically, this is because they are vital to the f…

Sometimes flex-direction: row is better for columns

I was recently working on a project, when I found an interesting situation with CSS where flex-direction: row is a…

Is it worth it to precompile your TypeScript Node.js code?

Your intuition may have been that your code would be faster by pre-compiling your TypeScript code - but intuition is…

Reactive type-safe persistence

It is difficult to get a type-safe persistent storage working in the JavaScript ecosystem. A common constraint that…