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Just had my first article for CSS Tricks published, where I wrote about creating a tag cloud using some very simple CSS and JS.

Here are two short, related videos demoing how I create a view mode component, use that view mode in a views list in Patternlab, and then integrate both with Drupal.

When every tutorial for syntax highlighting in Gatsby talks about highlight.js markdown but you have a Drupal website, you need to write your own for posterity. Here's mine.

I created a small page to display every named-css colour (or color, depending on your flavour (or flavor!) of English)!)

This is a small proof-of-concept in which the colours of a website change based on the time of day.

Here's a small repo/example I set up, updating the <meter> element with JavaScript, depending on the current date/time.

I was working on a 5-year old codebase today. Here's a tiny section of CSS that I think I tidied up quite nicely.

I had a very large key_value_expire table, even though Honeypot module had been uninstalled.

URLs, the foundation of the web, vs image maps (which 1999 told to come in for their dinner a long time ago).

The web is a publishing platform. First things first, we should get our semantics right, just like we expect a book publisher to do.