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Just post

[starts stopwatch] I see a lot of folks want to write more but struggle with how long it takes. I get it, a super detailed post takes hours of work. Especially when you’re building demos and stuff. You don’t always have to do that, though. Take this latest post on my blog about text-decoration. It […]

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Always aim high

I was doing a bit of tweaking on our agency site the other day. I introduced a <del> element to one of the headings in a new post. It looked pretty rubbish though because the text decoration was the same colour as the text and made it hard to read. At first I thought, “easy, […]

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Eleventy Excellent truly is excellent

I’ve probably already shared this before, but the Eleventy Excellent starter kit by Lene Saile (@lene@front-end.social) is bloody fantastic. It’s based on the Build Excellent Websites site we made, for the Be The Browser’s Mentor, Not Its Micromanager talk I delivered last year. I know I’ll certainly be looking in this kit’s direction next time […]

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The (extremely) loud minority

Often on Twitter, we’ll hear stuff like this: Best practices don’t actually work Or: TypeScript has won, and it’s only a matter of time you’re using it whether you like it or not. These may be true for a tiny minority of cases, such as in a code-factory: full of developers, independently working on small pieces of […]

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