Journal

A strange, otherwordly and often pretty funny tale of a Scottish minister’s dance with The Devil.

This is a very clever idea via Arthur Corenzan. Rather than use the default YouTube embed, which adds a crapload of resources to a page whether the user plays the video or not, use the little tiny placeholder webpage that is just an image you can click that is linked to the YouTube embed.

Every now and then something comes along in the world of web design that represents a substantial shift. The launch of Every Layout, a new project from Heydon Pickering and Andy Bell, feels like one such moment.

When it comes to webfonts, if you want to serve an accessible and high performance experience across device types it’s not as straightforward as just specifying your fonts in CSS then hoping for the best.

Cassie Evans shows us how to combine background–size, a linear-gradient based background-image and a keyframe animation (all in HTML and CSS) for a lovely progressive underline effect on multi-line text.

Now that we have the HTML attribute loading we can set loading="lazy" on our website’s media, and the loading of non-critical, below-the-fold media will be deferred until the user scrolls to them.

Last Tuesday, 20/8/19 I made the train trip east for a day at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

I have an open-source, Eleventy-based project where the posts are restaurants, each of which is located in a particular city, and contributors to the repo can add a new restaurant as a simple markdown file.

I’ve been admiring the wave effect at the foot of banners on Netlify’s website and had noted that they were achieved using SVG. So this tool which helps you “make waves” is pretty timely!

In second year a nice school pal introduced me to The Cure when I was on an otherwise strict diet of rave tapes. Mixed Up with its dubby extended mixes sealed the deal. Shamefully haven’t yet seen them live so I’m at fever pitch for tomorrow’s gig at Bellahouston Park. Hopefully see some of you there!