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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July 2025

July 2, 2025

Testing custom events with Playwright
July 1, 2025

Generating colors with the CSS oklch() function

June 2025

June 30, 2025

Public and private CSS cascade layers in a design system
June 28, 2025

On being a whole person
June 27, 2025

gzip performance is wild!
June 26, 2025

Modular CSS Redux
June 25, 2025

Rethinking modular CSS and build-free design systems
June 23, 2025

How to create light and dark color modes with CSS
June 18, 2025

Creating a semantic color palette
June 17, 2025

The Kelp Commons License
June 16, 2025

How to create an accessible color palette
June 13, 2025

Controlling spacing in modern CSS layouts
June 12, 2025

The stack layout in modern CSS
June 11, 2025

The split layout with modern CSS
June 10, 2025

The cluster layout with modern CSS
June 9, 2025

4 common layouts made easy with modern CSS
June 8, 2025

Rules, not rulers
June 7, 2025

Ants and anarchy
June 6, 2025

A Web Component for transforming headings into an accordion
June 5, 2025

HTML-native accordions
June 4, 2025

How to show content on specific dates in Hugo
June 3, 2025

Gradient borders with CSS
June 2, 2025

Why we hate AI

May 2025

May 30, 2025

How to build a Share This button using HTML Web Components and JavaScript
May 29, 2025

More myself online
May 28, 2025

How to build a copy-to-clipboard HTML Web Component
May 27, 2025

How to copy stuff to a user's clipboard with vanilla JavaScript
May 23, 2025

Work styles and ADHD
May 22, 2025

The magic developer wand...
May 21, 2025

The web is communist
May 20, 2025

CSS logical properties
May 19, 2025

Modern layouts with CSS
May 16, 2025

A better linter
May 15, 2025

:is() vs. :where()
May 14, 2025

Gardening and the endless task list