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

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It’s all relative!

What’s the deal with relative units? Let’s find out.

published Monday, August 15^th, 2022
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Changing with the times

Lessons learned, pieces of wisdom (and folly), and other things I have to say after running a website blog for a while.

published Wednesday, May 11^th, 2022
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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.