Apr 9, 2024 Web Development Even Though It’s 2024, Keep Optimizing Your Website Images This time around, though, let’s throw AVIF and WebP into the mix.
Mar 5, 2024 Web Development How Native Mixins Could Make Your CSS More Efficient Although still conceptual, native CSS mixins could lead to cleaner CSS and further reduce the need for tools like Sass.
Jan 30, 2024 Web Development Create More Flexible CSS Layouts with the “:has()” Pseudo-Class The “:has()” pseudo-class can solve some unique design problems, resulting in more adaptive, even reactive website designs.
Nov 29, 2023 Best of Opus Web Development Building a Better Social Media Post with Semantic HTML I’m trying to push back against an ongoing trend in web development to over-complicate… well… everything.
Nov 8, 2023 Web Development Tinylytics Is a Simple, Privacy-Focused Alternative to Google Analytics I like having some idea of how Opus is doing. Tinylytics provides that in a simple, well-supported package.
Jun 25, 2023 Web Development Chris Coyier Explores “Modern CSS in Real Life” Modern CSS features, like logical properties, open up new avenues for website functionality and accessibility.
Jun 20, 2023 Web Development A Real World Example of the Benefits of Image Optimization With just a few, simple steps, I was able to make a dramatic improvement to a client’s website.
Jun 3, 2023 Web Development In Praise of the Humble CSS “Gap” Property Meet my new favorite CSS technique.
Apr 20, 2023 Web Development Web Dev Links (April 2023): Color Palettes, Gradients, Typography, Analytics, and More Gradients and vertical rhythms and shadows, oh my!
Apr 14, 2023 Personal Web Development Opus Is My Hot Rod In addition to being a writing outlet, Opus consistently gives me opportunities to roll up my sleeves and tinker.
Jun 7, 2022 Web Development It’s 2022 and Yes, You Should Still Optimize Your Website’s Images Reducing image file sizes remains one of the easiest ways to dramatically improve your website’s performance.
Dec 18, 2021 Web Development Fellow Web Devs: Let’s Get Reacquainted with the “Rule of Least Power” What’s the best way to build a website?
Aug 20, 2021 Web Development Why Yes, I Want to Nest My CSS Coming soon, a better way for keeping your sites’ CSS organized and easy to maintain.
Jun 6, 2021 Opus News New Subscriber Playlist: “Songs for Coding” Subscribers can listen to two hours of some of my favorite songs for slinging HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Feb 6, 2020 Web Development A Trip Down (Web Development) Memory Lane Sometimes it’s easy to forget just how much CSS offers today’s web developers.
Jan 28, 2020 Web Development Building Webpages That Last (Also, a Lament for Absent Websites) If we consider our webpages important, then we ought to take the necessary steps to ensure their perpetuity.
Jan 9, 2019 Web Development Extreme CSS Optimization In which I use some unorthodox and even unwise techniques to make this site’s CSS as small as possible.