I’m Ravenous for CSS.

I’m a Canadian UI developer living in London, UK. This is where I write about and share my passions: CSS, best practices and web standards, performance, front-end architecture, and innovations on the web.

Latest Articles

1. April LWS Talk

   I gave a talk at London Web Standards and asked the question, So how can we write media queries that...

   29 April, 2016

2. Shoot for the Moon

   Don’t be half-minded when dealing with fractions and pixels. How can we ensure all browsers interpret fractions in our CSS...

   23 March, 2016

3. An Extended Response

   If you’ve dabbled in Sass before, you’re likely familiar with @extend and @mixin, but is there any use-case for @extend?...

   18 March, 2016

4. Backscratching Revisited

   I revised my original technique for styling default elements and took it a step further to scratch the greatest number...

   08 June, 2015

Featured Pens

1. Message Types

   Featured Pen

   11 June, 2016

2. Button Interaction Demo

   Featured Pen

   18 May, 2015

3. Interaction Jazz

   Featured Pen

   19 November, 2014

4. Category Hover Demo

   Featured Pen

   10 November, 2014

Shared Links

1. Atom Multiline Select

   An Atom Editor package to support multiline selection which I forked and modified to mimic Sublime Text’s multiline selection technique....

   22 July, 2016

2. Theremin

   Play your own musical synth with delay, feedback, and scuzz

   06 May, 2016

3. IE9 :before font-size bug

   Seems there’s a bug in Internet Explorer 9 wherein pseudo content (:before and :after content) doesn’t get parsed properly in...

   05 May, 2016

4. HTML Rube Goldberg

   A mesmerising Rube Goldberg machine made with HTML form elements and their form element-specific attributes and states, like checked, :focus,...

   29 April, 2016

Latest Talks

1. Supporting Middle-Out in CSS

   Talk – Given at London Web Standards.

   18 April, 2016