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 […]
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 […]
I just had a power cut and wanted to check how long it would be out for. The UK Power Networks power outage tool is handy for that, but there’s a problem: I only had a 3G network connection and the site is heavily dependent on JavaScript. Can you guess what happened? Yep: I couldn’t […]
On Monday, the first issue of the Set Studio newsletter: The Index will be going live! You may remember the newsletter that I used to run a few years ago: the Piccalilli Newsletter. Back then, I used to feature lovely websites, inspiring articles, helpful tutorials and signal-boost content from writers who weren’t getting nearly enough […]