The Stream

I write about the intersection of frontend web development, punk, and gardening. I used to write more. Now I write less.

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November 2023

November 15, 2023

Modular CSS and different ways to structure your stylesheets
November 14, 2023

HUG CSS, how I approach CSS architecture
November 13, 2023

Classless vs. class-based CSS design systems
November 10, 2023

Semantic inline lists
November 9, 2023

Front end devs really don't understand accessibility
November 8, 2023

Code is boring
November 7, 2023

How do build tools break backwards compatibility?
November 6, 2023

Are build tools an anti-pattern?
November 3, 2023

Web browsers kind of suck
November 2, 2023

Ecosystem rot

October 2023

October 30, 2023

Don't disable buttons
October 27, 2023

The best way
October 26, 2023

5 New Courses (and a Boilerplate)
October 25, 2023

Creating a progessively enhanced accordion with Web Components
October 24, 2023

JavaScript anti-pattern: ignoring code base style norms
October 23, 2023

JavaScript anti-pattern: self-documenting code
October 19, 2023

The Indie Web and the joy of being weird
October 18, 2023

The three Cs of web performance
October 17, 2023

Web performance and parallel vs. waterfall downloads
October 16, 2023

Reef version 13 just launched
October 12, 2023

It all means nothing in the end
October 10, 2023

How to manage the borders of complexity in JavaScript projects
October 6, 2023

The edges of complexity
October 5, 2023

Big changes to the Lean Web Club
October 3, 2023

The HTMLElement.dataset property in vanilla JavaScript
October 2, 2023

How to deal with spaghetti code

September 2023

September 29, 2023

I follow you for tech, not politics
September 28, 2023

Adding cursors to stuff for better UX
September 27, 2023

Why multi-page apps?
September 26, 2023

13 super rad web dev tricks you don't know about (but should)
September 25, 2023

Creating your first Web Component in five minutes or less
September 22, 2023

React is slow at its very core
September 21, 2023

Don't prematurely optimize for performance
September 20, 2023

What can you do with data attributes?
September 19, 2023

The craft of the web