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New Dec 17, 2024
Sustainable Hardware Choices
I’m pretty proud that I managed to keep my iPhone 8 going for over five years (with one battery replacement in that time). But recently it’s been increasingly unreliable, switching itself off at ra...
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New Nov 21, 2024
Education Needs Teachers, Not More Technology
Baldur Bjarnason shared an article in a recent edition of his newsletter about AI in...
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New Oct 31, 2024
CSS Masonry Layout Syntax
Ahmad Shadeed has published a great article digging into the proposed CSS masonry layout syntax. In case you’re unaware, the term “masonry” for layout is used to describe the kind of grid layou...
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New Oct 23, 2024
AI Environmental Impact Report
The Green Web Foundation have published a thorough and insightful report into the sustainability of AI, and the results are pretty damning. Over the couple of years I’ve been talking about web su...
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New Oct 18, 2024
A Versatile Markdown Shortcode for Eleventy
When writing blog posts in Markdown files I often find myself needing to add HTML elements that aren’t accounted for in Markdown. Some common ones are <aside> elements, where I include content...
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New Oct 16, 2024
I’ve Been Doing Blockquotes Wrong
True to form, Heydon Pickering has written another blistering account of one of the most ubiquitous HTML elements, the <blockquote>. You’ve probably used a <blockquote> when w...
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New Sep 22, 2024
Notes From Green IO Conference
Last week I attended Green IO, a conference in London all about sustainability in digital technology, organised by Gaël Duez (who also hosts the Green IO podcast). It was a fantastic conference, an...
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New Sep 16, 2024
Limitation Breeds Creativity: A Study in Composition with Custom Properties
It’s been a little while since I’ve played around with making creative stuff with CSS just for fun. My trip to State of the Browser conference at the weekend reminded me why I l...
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New Sep 11, 2024
Logical Properties in Size Queries
I came across a post from Elad Shechter lamenting not being able to use logical properties in media queries. As he correctly notes, the following won’t work: @media (max-inline-size: 1000px) {...