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. Jun 7, 2022 Web Development
Fellow Web Devs: Let’s Get Reacquainted with the “Rule of Least Power” What’s the best way to build a website? Dec 18, 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. Aug 20, 2021 Web Development
New Subscriber Playlist: “Songs for Coding” Subscribers can listen to two hours of some of my favorite songs for slinging HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Jun 6, 2021 Opus News
A Trip Down (Web Development) Memory Lane Sometimes it’s easy to forget just how much CSS offers today’s web developers. Feb 6, 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 28, 2020 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. Jan 9, 2019 Web Development
Weekend Reads: Superstore’s Humanizing Effect, Craigslist’s Ugly-but-Effective Design, Roadside Monument’s Return, One Punch Man & More Also: The best good bad movies, a new “Robotech” comic, how SEO ruins websites, and more “Wonder Woman” goodness. Jun 23, 2017 Reading
Reading: Moana, The Handmaid’s Tale, Mount Eerie’s A Crow Looked at Me & More Also: King Arthur, Silicon Valley silliness, and the downside of “mobile first” web design. May 13, 2017 Reading
Grid Layout Is One of the Best Things to Ever Happen to CSS This is how web page layout should be. How it should’ve always been. Apr 14, 2016 Web Development
A Tale of Two Logos (or, Now Let’s SVG All the Things) I redesigned Opus’ logo because I wanted to make my website faster. Did it work? Jan 28, 2016 Web Development Opus News
Please, For the Love of All That Is Holy, Optimize Your Website’s Images Websites can never be too fast, which means that website images can never be too small. Jan 23, 2016 Web Development
The Space Jam Website as Nostalgia Trip & Historical Document For the record, I still optimize my websites’ images with 56K modems in mind. Aug 26, 2015 Web Development
Reading: Kanye West, “Blurred Lines,” Bill Watterson, CIA iPhone Hacking, DuckTales, Loving Uncool Songs, and More Also: The trouble with David Bazan, website URLs suck, Japanese web design trends, super-pricey vinyl, the right way to read Narnia, and fixing Spotify. Mar 16, 2015 Reading
Reading: Movies & Your Brain, Beyoncé vs. Sofia, Don’t Call Me “Bro,” Escher Girls, The Simpsons’ Legacy & more Also: The story behind a new HTML tag, Facebook damages public discourse, developing virtue, and leaked nude celebrity pics. Aug 26, 2014 Reading
BrowserQuest Lets You Relive the Days of Classic Video Games via HTML5 Goodness 16-bit nostalgia as well as more proof that Flash is becoming increasingly irrelevant and unnecessary in today’s web environment. Apr 2, 2012 Video Games Nerdery Web Development