All Blog Posts

Container Queries Are Here!
Responsive web development will never be the same again.
Conditional Hover Styles in CSS
Have you ever crafted a nice hover effect for an element in your website, then opened it on mobile and saw that effect erroneously appear when that element is tapped on?

Who Runs Our Code
In a world with tons of business requirements, conversion metrics, and a stampede of new technologies, front-end development can easily become oblivious of one thing: where our code runs.

From Twitter to Mastodon
Turns out the elephant network feels much lighter than the bird one.

2022 In Hindsight
A year of big changes, both to me and to the world.

Thoughts on GitHub Copilot
I was initially skeptical about it, but I've come to appreciate it more and more as I use it.

Review: Elden Ring
My thoughts on what probably is the biggest game release of 2022.

Ethical Analytics are Plausible, at Last
Web Analytics is such a morally ambiguous area that I’ve avoided it for years, but now I can finally do it with peace of mind.

2021 In Review
Another year, another yearly review post. 2021 felt like pretty much 2020 part II for a lot of people, me included.

How I built a blog with Svelte and SvelteKit
An overview of the experience I've had using these amazing projects.

Smarter, Lighter, Better Images: A Guide to Optimization
Learn how to reduce page loading times and bounce rate.

How to fix your Favicons
Favicons suck. Luckily, there are ways to make them suck less.

Spicing Up your GitHub Profile with HTML and CSS
Make your GitHub profile more appealing with what you do best: code!

Looking Back at 2020
2020 definitely wasn't our best year... but let's remember what was good about it.

CSS Scroll Snapping - Improve Scrolling without JS
Learn how to snap scrolling positions with CSS only.

Developing an Animal Crossing companion app with Ionic
No bells were spent while building this app.

Cool things I did and learned in 2019
A quick look back at 2019 and what I learned during this year.

Web Workers - Bringing Multithreading to the Front-End
Improve your client-side performance by breaking heavy operations into multiple threads - backend style.

MongoDB on Linux - Data directory /data/db not found
Fix the error that occurs when trying to run freshly-installed MongoDB on a Linux machine.

.NET Core - Project version mismatch
Solving this cryptic error might take you many hours. Hopefully this will help you out.

Open Source x Free Software: What's the difference?
Learn the difference between these two terms that often get mixed up.

Micro Frontends: Solving the Legacy JavaScript Problem
Finally a way to modernize that legacy project you keep complaining about!

.NET Core API - Method not allowed on PUT and DELETE requests
See how to solve this annoying error after deploying your .NET Core API.

What are PWAs and why should I care about them?
We see a lot of talk about PWAs, but the concept is not that easy to understand.

How to transform your Angular 6+ app into a PWA
Make your Angular app work like a native app on phones and desktop.

The purpose of this blog
Why does it exist?