Hey, my name’s Chris,and I’m ravenous for CSS.I’m Chris Burnell, 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.Latest Writing permalinkSassy Lobotomised OwlManaging 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 to Sassy Lobotomised OwlarticleThe Flip-Flop TechniqueI 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 · updated 07 September 2020 · 4 responses to The Flip-Flop TechniquearticleReply TargetsProviding 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 · 4 responses to Reply TargetsarticleMore Posts permalink🔖Video ConversionThis is definitely something that I may or may not do often… fantastic little guide to doing it right!published 14 October 2020https://chriscoyier.net/2020/10/14/video-conversion/bookmarkDiscovered that I can make custom waveforms for use with my noisy sparklines. Swapped from the humble sine wave to a an "Ahh" sound—like I used to go crazy for on early MIDI keyboards!published 10 September 2020note🔖The True Story of Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore“Early Singapore’s authoritarian competency is a model invoked by leaders from China to Rwanda. But its rise was complex, messy, and the result of long factional battles. There are hard limits to how far it can be exported.”published 07 September 2020https://palladiummag.com/2020/08/13/the-true-story-of-lee-kuan-yews-singapore/bookmarkBrowse the Archive
Sassy Lobotomised OwlManaging 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 to Sassy Lobotomised Owlarticle
The Flip-Flop TechniqueI 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 · updated 07 September 2020 · 4 responses to The Flip-Flop Techniquearticle
Reply TargetsProviding 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 · 4 responses to Reply Targetsarticle
🔖Video ConversionThis is definitely something that I may or may not do often… fantastic little guide to doing it right!published 14 October 2020https://chriscoyier.net/2020/10/14/video-conversion/bookmark
Discovered that I can make custom waveforms for use with my noisy sparklines. Swapped from the humble sine wave to a an "Ahh" sound—like I used to go crazy for on early MIDI keyboards!published 10 September 2020note
🔖The True Story of Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore“Early Singapore’s authoritarian competency is a model invoked by leaders from China to Rwanda. But its rise was complex, messy, and the result of long factional battles. There are hard limits to how far it can be exported.”published 07 September 2020https://palladiummag.com/2020/08/13/the-true-story-of-lee-kuan-yews-singapore/bookmark