From the archives: The gig economy as student jobs
15 August 2026 | tagged as Archives Monetisation
Thoughts about the gig economy from a more innocent era. Maybe they’re still useful today.
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15 August 2026 | tagged as Archives Monetisation
Thoughts about the gig economy from a more innocent era. Maybe they’re still useful today.
13 August 2026 | tagged as Web development
An example of a website being irrelevant bullshit that happened to trigger me. Why didn't a UX designer pull the emergency break?
27 May 2026 | tagged as CSS
I explain a bit of grid theory, a simplified grid algorithm, and how the noble art of not giving too many instructions is best for creating robust layouts. Rambles slightly.
26 May 2026 | tagged as Conferences
Ticket sales for the performance.now() web performance conference have started. There are three ticket tiers.
8 May 2026 | tagged as Archives Conferences
Devrel departments, especially of smaller companies, should make videos of their people available for conference organisers to watch.
7 May 2026 | tagged as CSS
I created a technique to fill a grid column by column instead of row by row, while still setting a maximum number of columns. It works, but is brittle. Here we’ll discuss why it is brittle, and why a superior technique can't work without children-count().
6 May 2026 | tagged as Conferences
CSS Day price hike coming. Get your ticket now.