I’m ravenous
for CSS.

I’m a Canadian front-end developer, writer, and rabbit-hole deep-diver. This is where I think, write, and share my passion for the web.

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Theremin

🔖 Play your own musical synth with delay, feedback, and scuzz.
06 May 2016
IE9 :before font-size bug

🔖 Seems there’s a bug in Internet Explorer 9 wherein pseudo content (:before and :after content) doesn’t get parsed properly in...
05 May 2016
HTML Rube Goldberg

🔖 A mesmerising Rube Goldberg machine made with HTML form elements and their form element-specific attributes and states, like checked, :focus...
29 April 2016
April LWS Talk

I gave a talk at London Web Standards and asked the question, So how can we write media queries that...
29 April 2016
Supporting Middle-Out in CSS

🗣 Talk 📍 at London Web Standards
18 April 2016
Shoot for the Moon

🖼️ Don’t be half-minded when dealing with fractions and pixels. How can we ensure all browsers interpret fractions in our CSS...
23 March 2016
An Extended Response

If you’ve dabbled in Sass before, you’re likely familiar with @extend and @mixin, but is there any use-case for @extend?...
18 March 2016
Responsive Pixel Art

🔖 This is an incredible display of creativity and logic on the web. The effort that has gone into this is...
09 March 2016
Editing your last embarrassment

🔖 In other words Quick editing your last sent texts
27 February 2016
Regex Golf

🔖 Test your regex skills. So much fun. Brainmelting, but fun.
23 January 2016
Styling SVG use Content with CSS

🔖 Little late on this one, but gold dust nonetheless. SVG Wizard, Sara Soueidan, discusses in-depth how to style SVG’s element...
21 January 2016
ServiceWorker Cookbook

🔖 The Service Worker Cookbook is a collection of working, practical examples of using service workers in modern web apps.
08 January 2016
Polyfill Service

🔖 The polyfill service selectively bundles browser polyfills based on the User-Agent header supplied in a request, with the intention of...
05 January 2016
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

📖 🖼️ Book Review by Hunter S. Thompson

02 January 2016
An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth

📖 🖼️ Book Review by Chris Hadfield

28 December 2015
Backscratching Revisited

🖼️ I revised my original technique for styling default elements and took it a step further to scratch the greatest number...
08 June 2015