I’m Chris Burnell, a Canadian Front End Developer, and this is where I think, write, and share my passion for the web.

Latest Writing permalink¶

Copilot me if you can

A short tale about how GitHub Copilot generated some “real” data about my website.

published Wednesday, December 7^th, 2022

The Environment-Aware Wrapper

Here’s a handy CSS technique to make sure your content isn’t obscured by the pesky notch that seems to be present on many phones these days, and it probably already fits nicely into your existing codebase!

published Sunday, October 30^th, 2022

Hot Posts permalink¶

Sassy Lobotomised Owl

Managing spacing between elements and components on your page can be a tiring task if undertaken manually. This is where the lobotomised owl comes in: a short, simple snippet of CSS that simplifies this whole process for you. In this article I’ll explain how I make use of it in a more dynamic way using a SCSS mixin.

Time to Cache Up

For a long time I’ve been searching for a sound solution to storing the entire Webmention history of my blog, as packaging it up with the rest of the repository was not cutting it for me. Enter the world of async.

Latest Projects permalink¶

clamp() Calculator

Handy little tool for calculating viewport-based clamped values.

published Friday, November 11^th, 2022
1 response to clamp() Calculator

Browser Feature Watch

This page serves as an one-stop shop for me to keep track of feature compatability in browsers, ordered by level of support and updated daily.

Ravenous for CSS

Latest Writing permalink¶

Hot Posts permalink¶

Latest Projects permalink¶

Browse collections

More pages