🐋Bowhead Memorable and maintainable design tokens in SCSS. published 10 August 2020 · updated 17 January 2022 · 29 responses to Bowhead
I’ve got a quick little nugget of CSS to share today, a selector containing all interactive content. published 17 May 2022 note
The Beloved Refactor Following the incredible high from a great conference, I just finished an extremely refreshing refactor of the CSS on my site. Here’s what I did. published 11 May 2022 article
in reply to Writing CSS with Purpose by Binyamin Green Finding Purpose in CSS I think you hit the nail on the head with this one. As I like to think CSS is my strongest language (the ego on this guy, honestly), your simile with the layout of a keyboard was spot on—layout, in particular,… published 21 January 2022 note
Deep Dive into Colour How to make powerful use of CSS Variables, colour spaces, and the cascade using Bowhead. published 28 November 2021 · updated 11 May 2022 · 2 responses to Deep Dive into Colour article
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. published 14 January 2020 · updated 29 November 2021 · 27 responses to Sassy Lobotomised Owl article
The Flip-Flop Technique I 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 Technique article
Variables for Both Now that CSS Custom Properties, or CSS Variables, are becoming a solid standard, I'm using a method to map their values to CSS Variables whilst providing a value-as-is fallback using a straightforward syntax in a SCSS function and mixin. published 15 October 2018 · updated 06 May 2021 · 9 responses to Variables for Both article
Remapping Ranges in Sass Great inspiration can sometimes be found in exploring available opportunities and embracing new ideas. In this article, I'll try to replicate a foreign concept in a familiar way, and explain why I decided to even do it. published 15 June 2017 · 1 response to Remapping Ranges in Sass article
April LWS Talk I gave a talk at London Web Standards and asked the question, So how can we write media queries that are both consistent and succinct? published 29 April 2016 article
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 equally? published 23 March 2016 article
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? Given the benchmark performance of the two, can we still be confident in the cascade when @extending in Sass? published 18 March 2016 article
Backscratching Revisited I revised my original technique for styling default elements and took it a step further to scratch the greatest number of backs. published 08 June 2015 article
Theming Pinboard I recently decided I would embark on the task of theming Pinboard. Here's how I did it. published 12 March 2015 article
A Slice of Heaven We know that webpages are composed of text and boxes. Lots and lots of boxes. But with the power and might of CSS3 we can do some fancy stuff that never used to be possible. published 27 August 2014 article
Let’s Look Back I haven't published a new article in a while now, but I haven't been twiddling my thumbs. Let's look at what happened behind-the-scenes in the last eight months since my first article. published 09 February 2014 · 2 responses to Let’s Look Back article
I’ll Scratch Your Back, And Mine Too I've been playing around with CSS content and attribute selectors recently, and came across a useful trick for styling default elements. published 29 October 2013 · updated 06 June 2015 article
Persistent Shadows How easy is it to keep a shadow's direction consistent whilst rotating an element? published 18 June 2013 article
Annoying Navigation CSS Navigation is crucial to a functional website. It is how your users find the information they're after; get it right, and your users are happy—get it wrong, and they go insane! published 16 June 2013 article
First Article Ever Well, I've finally gotten my site up and running to a point where I can consider it to be a success. What was the process, and what did it involve? What mistakes did I make that you can avoid? published 15 June 2013 article
