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

Generating Automatic ShortURLs with NewBase60

I’m still auto-generating ShortURLs for each of my posts using Tantek Çelik’s NewBase60, but in a much more organised fashion and leaning into the JavaScript-based ecosystem of Eleventy.

published Sunday, March 26^th, 2023

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

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.

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clamp() Calculator

Handy little tool for calculating viewport-based clamped values.

published Friday, November 11^th, 2022
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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

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