On Title Case

Casual thoughts about my experience with title case, a recent switch from AP-inspired to NYT-governed guidelines, and the respective guidelines themselves.

Published on July 27, 2024, filed under Design and Everything Else.

Thoughts on CSS in 2024

What I appreciate, what I don’t need (so far)—light and casual and certainly subjective notes on contemporary CSS.

Published on July 15, 2024, filed under Development.

Transitive Optimization Considered—Interesting

Transitive optimization means that if we improve A to optimize B, and optimizations of B also optimize C, then improving A should also lead to an optimization of C. But now what?

Published on July 10, 2024, filed under Development.

3 Good Reasons for Vegan and Vegetarian “Substitute” Products

On acknowledging forms, maintaining connection, and making it easier to live empathically and sustainably.

Published on June 30, 2024, filed under Everything Else.

The Essence of Veganism

On not having anyone suffer or die for us.

Published on June 29, 2024, filed under Everything Else.

Know the “search” Element

Let’s talk about element #112.

Published on June 19, 2024, filed under Development.

The Price of a Dream

A look at what it costs to travel the world, a decade later.

Published on June 16, 2024, filed under Adventure.

Website Optimization Measures, Part XXIV

On AVIF tests, book prices, AI experiments, Eleventy performance, IE scripts and styles, domain registrations, site headers, and (old) document functionality that can better be handled by native HTML elements than by handmade scripts.

Published on June 11, 2024, filed under Development and Design.

Death by Experience

It’s possible to hire too much experience, and it costs diversity and culture.

Published on June 4, 2024, filed under Management.

Website Optimization Measures, Part XXIII

Affiliate marketing and ads and Brave Rewards. HTML elements and dotenv and Git. Spellings and designs and stuff.

Published on May 29, 2024, filed under Development and Design.

When Amazon Just Wipes Your Entire Device Ebook Library

How to manage to scare away the most loyal customers.

Published on May 23, 2024, filed under Everything Else.

We Need to Talk More About Conformance, if We Want to Stop Fantasy HTML

Conformant and valid HTML is the exception on websites and in apps, even though valid output is a sign of professional web development. Given how rarely the topic is being discussed these days, we benefit from raising more awareness for HTML conformance and validation.

Published on May 21, 2024, filed under Development.

The Great Tech and People Hypocrisy

When we value people so much that we “rif” them even with cash in the bank, maybe we don’t value them as much as we say we do. On a two-faced industry that needs firing standards as much as it needs hiring standards.

Published on May 14, 2024, filed under Management.

Now Available: Upgrade Your HTML V!

The newest part of the ebook series for HTML craftspeople and minimalists, touching on past, present, and future of the greatest document language ever specified.

Published on May 8, 2024, filed under Development.

Critical Feedback: Four Approaches and One Twist

Feedback is important so that we can learn and improve. Critical feedback is important to expose, validate, and address areas of growth and development. I believe that fundamentally, there are four approaches to critical feedback.

Published on May 2, 2024, filed under Everything Else and Management.

April 24 Is JS Naked Day

Every year on April 9 we, a part of our field, do without CSS; from this year on, on April 24, there’s an opportunity to temporarily swear off JavaScript.

Published on April 21, 2024, filed under Development.

Declining 1:1 Meetings Without a Message Is Rude

It happens everywhere, but it sets a bad example.

Published on April 15, 2024, filed under Everything Else.

Sustainability Trap

On the need to take and at the same time reassign responsibility for consumption and pollution.

Published on March 31, 2024, filed under Everything Else.

Exploitation

What and who is easiest to take advantage of and exploit, how is that being justified, and what can be done about it? On one piece of the puzzle what the fewest things are that need changing, to change everything.

Published on March 30, 2024, filed under Philosophy and Everything Else.

Julia and Sybil

The early manuscript of a novel I started in 2015, and that will still take a few years to be finished.

Published on March 24, 2024, filed under Philosophy and Everything Else.

On the Gift of OKR for Company Culture

“OKR,” short for aspiration, candor, and accountability.

Published on March 21, 2024, filed under Management.

Building Websites and Building Websites Well

On exercises, orthogonality, and—choice.

Published on March 12, 2024, filed under Development.

The Next Adventure

On leaving Germany again, and the next big chapter of my life.

Published on March 5, 2024, filed under Adventure and Everything Else.

How to Counter Provocation and Rumor

Are there effective responses to being provoked, picked on, blamed, attacked? Absolutely—but they’re not all being taught or shared a lot. A few quotes that I’ve found useful.

Published on February 25, 2024, filed under Everything Else.

“Web Design as a Process” in Charts: Maintenance, Decay, Tech Debt, and Big Bang Launching

Web design is a process. This process relates to the quality and completeness of a given website, as observed over time. We can chart and understand different types of this process.

Published on February 19, 2024, filed under Development.