Announcing the Front-End Tooling Survey 2019
The Front-end Tooling Survey is back! Please take part and help to provide insight into the tools we all use.
View ArticleThe Front-End Tooling Survey 2018 - Results
The results of the 2018 Front-End Tooling Survey are out! Check out the results and analysis of the responses here.
View ArticleFinal Few Days to Make Your Voice Heard
Please spend 5 minutes to take part before the survey closes at the end of March.
View ArticleAnnouncing the Front-End Tooling Survey 2018
The Front-end Tooling Survey is back! Please take part and help to provide insight into the tools we all use.
View Article2016 – My Year in Review
A quick look back at 2016 from both a personal and professional perspective.
View ArticleThe State of Front-End Tooling 2016 - Results
The results of the 2016 Front-End Tooling Survey are out! Check out the results and analysis of the responses here.
View ArticleFront-End Tooling Survey – 2016
The Front-end Tooling Survey is back for 2016! Take a look at how you can help to provide insight into the tools we all use.
View ArticleSome Updates…
A brief post on some of the updates I’ve made to my site’s hosting recently.
View ArticleSetting up a site on Digital Ocean
An explanation of the steps involved in moving your hosting to Digital Ocean.
View ArticleMoving to HTTPS with LetsEncrypt
An overview of how you can easily make your sites secure by enabling HTTPS.
View ArticleAttending FullStack 2016
A short overview of what I’ll be talking about at FullStack 2016 next week.
View ArticleExtending Sass with PostCSS
A brief overview of why I find it useful extending Sass by adding PostCSS into the mix.
View ArticleAligning your Front End Process
A few tips for helping to align your processes across your team to help with consistency in your projects.
View ArticleCSS text-shadow video tutorial
A video tutorial of my post on text-shadow is now available to view on Youtube.
View Article2015 – My Year in Review
A quick look back at 2015 from both a personal and professional perspective.
View ArticleThe State of Front-End Tooling – 2015
I asked front-end developers to fill in a survey about their their knowledge and usage patterns across a number of front-end tools. Check out the results.
View ArticleFront-End Tooling Survey – Help Needed!
As part of some research I’m doing into modern front-end workflows and tooling, it would be super useful if you could spend 2 minutes to answer a couple of brief questions…
View ArticleManaging Inline Images in CSS
A look into the best ways of managing inline images for use in your CSS files.
View ArticlePostCSS – Sass Killer or Preprocessing Pretender?
I take a look at a front-end tool that’s been gathering a fair bit of attention as of late.
View ArticleA Guide to the Front-End Interview Process
Having recently been an interviewer and interviewee, I wanted to put together a brief guide for those preparing to interview for front-end roles.
View ArticleHelp to get Picture and Srcset fully implemented in Microsoft Edge
If you care about the future of Responsive Images, please carry out the following two requests.
View ArticleKickoff Version 5 released
A new version of the lightweight front-end framework has been released.
View ArticleA New Challenge
Looking forward to new challenges and experiences as I move out of London.
View ArticlePlaying around with CSS text-shadow
What I learned playing around with CSS text-shadow for a couple of hours.
View ArticleChristmas Tracker – A Node.js Realtime Experiment
Check out my latest side project – a realtime Christmas word watcher built in NodeJS and SVG.
View ArticleWriting CSS (and Sass) that doesn’t suck
A list of some of the issues that I’ve come across when inheriting CSS that you should avoid when authoring your own projects.
View ArticleA Retort on Simplicity
Simplicity isn’t about using out development tools less – it’s about using the right tool for the right task.
View ArticleCreating button effects with box shadows and border radius
How to make some simple looking button effects using box-shadow and border-radius.
View ArticleGetting started with the OSX terminal
An intro guide to the terminal, going over my most commonly used shortcuts and commands.
View ArticleAre we getting too Sassy?
A look at the recent trend of micro-optimisation versus maintainability
View ArticleKnow Thy Interaction
Some useful and interesting links, in reference to my talk at Shropgeek, up in Shrewsbury.
View ArticleA beginners guide to terminal aliases and functions
An intro guide to creating time saving terminal aliases and functions in Mac OSX.
View ArticleThe fall and rise of SVG – how SVG is more relevant than ever
There’s no doubting that SVG is going through a rennaisance right now. I take a look at at how modern techniques are bringing this old gem back to the forefront of front-end development.
View ArticleLaunch Sublime Text 2 or 3 from the Mac OSX Terminal
A really quick win to open up Sublime Text using one quick command from the Mac OSX terminal.
View ArticleControlling heavy weight websites
The worringing trend of creating beautiful websites at the cost of performance.
View ArticleSweating the detail
The last time I redesigned my blog, it took me over a year to have something to show for it. This time I gave myself a week.
View ArticleBBC GoodFood - The last year of my life
After a year working on the BBC Good Food responsive redesign, the site has now gone live!
View ArticleResponsively winging it, together
After returning from Responsive Day out, I felt reflective about the state of RWD.
View ArticleMedia Query Mario
The result of spending some time hacking about with CSS3 and mashing it together with Mario 3…
View ArticleConditional CSS – an alternative
After reading several other solutions to the problem of linking up CSS media queries and JavaScript, here's my go at solving it.
View ArticleA brief history of me
For the curious/crazy stalkers among you, a brief 'Who am I', and how I've fallen into doing whatever it is that I do.
View ArticleDragon Graphics goes live
After months of finishing touches/procrastination, the redesign of my blog, Dragon Graphics, has finally been pushed out into the world to fend for itself.
View ArticleA collection of subtle loading effects using CSS transforms and animations
Some cool, but subtle, loading animations I knocked up on Codepen in a spare few hours.
View ArticleThe Front-End Tooling Survey 2019 - Results
The results of the 2019 Front-End Tooling Survey are out! Check out the results and analysis of the responses here.
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