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
Bière de Saison DamsonThe Kernel Brewery0517 September 2020https://untappd.com/b/the-kernel-brewery-biere-de-saison-damson/2531225beer
Loop: Blackcurrant & Lemon VerbenaYonder Brewing & Blending0529 August 2020https://untappd.com/b/yonder-brewing-and-blending-loop-blackcurrant-and-lemon-verbena/3464174beer
Millions of PeachesHackney Brewery0511 August 2020https://untappd.com/b/hackney-brewery-millions-of-peaches/2596244beer
Dragons of Spring DawningDragonlance: ChroniclesMargaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (1985)0520 October 2019https://openlibrary.org/isbn/9780786930708book
Dragons of Winter NightDragonlance: ChroniclesMargaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (1985)0519 February 2019https://openlibrary.org/isbn/9781932796780book
🔖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
🔖Autonomy Online: A Case For The IndieWebAna Rodrigues perfectly lays out what the IndieWeb is all about, along with the why’s and how’s of getting involved!published 27 August 2020https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/08/autonomy-online-indieweb/bookmark
🔖IA BasicsMy great friend, Tom, has written a super-comprehensive article about IA: a topic I’m lacking in serious experience with!published 11 August 2020https://www.thomas-evans-ux.com/iabasicsbookmark
The Legend of ZeldaNintendo (1986)0508 June 2020https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/NES/The-Legend-of-Zelda-796345.htmlgame
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the PastNintendo (1991)0508 June 2020https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Super-Nintendo/The-Legend-of-Zelda-A-Link-to-the-Past-841179.htmlgame
❤️Leveraging IndieWeb to Avoid Storing Others' Datapublished 22 September 2020https://evgenykuznetsov.org/en/posts/2020/indieweb-glue/like
❤️Adulthood fun: unboxing new vertical blind drops, highlight of 2020 so …published 11 September 2020https://calumryan.com/notes/3551like
The South Got Something to SayPouya (2019)0530 July 2020https://album.link/s/3SNpwvPDO9MfNJCJwhNCd7music
Flight of the Cosmic HippoBéla Fleck and the Flecktones (1991)0517 April 2020https://album.link/s/5AjD7hY9hMWVC5ZWGerBv4music
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
🚚 Bowhead is now at version 0.1.8, which adds a few things and fixes others, namely cleaning up what files are packaged for npm so as to send as little as necessary. If you're looking for a barebones SCSS solution for…published 07 September 2020note
📦 Packaged up a bit of SCSS I’ve been happily using into a thing called Bowhead (it’s a whale, but I totally swear the filesize is tiny) and I’d love your feedback! https://chrisburnell.com/bowhead/published 26 August 2020note
📝BreadsticksA recipe by Tastes Better From Scratchpublished 27 November 2019 · 5 responses to Breadsticksrecipe
🗣Supporting Middle-Out in CSSMy first ever talk, given at London Web Standards.published 18 April 2016 · 1 response to Supporting Middle-Out in CSStalk