Hey, my name’s Chris , CSS .
I’m Chris Burnell , a Canadian Front End Developer , and this is where I think, write, and share my passion for the web.
State of the Browser , a yearly one-day, single-track conference, is back with its tenth edition—join us in-person in London or online on 22 October 2022 !
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Reaching for Grid might feel like overkill for a one-column layout, but I hope this technique shows how useful it is in understanding what your CSS is doing!
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Here’s a quick run-through of how I retrieve and utilise Webmentions with my Eleventy website.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Cache Webmentions using eleventy-fetch and make them available to use in collections, templates, pages, etc. in Eleventy.
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going to
State of the Browser 10
on
October 22, 2022
Delighted to be once again attending State of the Browser, this year being the tenth edition and taking place at the incredible Barbican Centre in London!
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going to
Ep. 11: WebC with Zach
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October 6, 2022
WebC, a new HTML-driven file format from Eleventy’s creator, the venerable Zach Leatherman, has very much piqued my interest, so I’m really looking forward to hearing more about it, sinking my teeth in, and starting to use it myself!
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