🔖Functional documentation

“Some collected thoughts and ideas around applying a functional approach to writing and maintaining documentation, especially for design systems.”

• published Tuesday, May 2^nd, 2023

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 Wednesday, May 11^th, 2022

Deep Dive into Colour

How to make powerful use of CSS Variables, colour spaces, and the cascade using Bowhead.

• updated Wednesday, May 11^th, 2022
• published Sunday, November 28^th, 2021
• 2 responses to this article

❤️Easily Use Design Tokens In Eleventy: HeydonWorks

• published Saturday, May 16^th, 2020

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.

• updated Thursday, May 6^th, 2021
• published Monday, October 15^th, 2018
• 9 responses to this article