I’m ravenous
for CSS.

My name’s Chris Burnell, and I’m a Canadian Front End Developer, Organiser for London Web Standards, Elven Sorcerer, and rabbit-hole deep-diver living in London, England. This is where I think, write, and share my passion for the web.

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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.

published 14 January 2020 15 responses

The Flip-Flop Technique

I recently implemented a colour scheme toggler in the footer of my website, following Andy Bell’s guide, Create a user controlled dark or light mode, and I found a wonky but fun alternative solution for styling my dark theme which leverages CSS’s filter property.

published 30 August 2019 4 responses

Reply Targets

Providing a useful context to content written in response to someone else's blog post, tweet, toot, etc. helps a reader to understand the conversational nature of these back-and-forths. What abstractions can we make to the data that holds these reply targets, and how can those abstractions make for a richer reading experience and for a leaner publishing workflow?

published 19 June 2019 6 responses

IA Basics

My great friend, Tom, has written a super-comprehensive article about IA: a topic I’m lacking in serious experience with!

published 11 August 2020

in reply to a previous note

Eleventy is a go! Managed to migrate all of my content, pages, and a whole lot more. Article about the transition coming soon!

published 06 August 2020

Uncommon CSS Properties

Some useful gems in here I had no idea about!

published 07 July 2020

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