2025

Website Optimization Measures, Part XXIX

From cleaning up behind files and feature policies and Eleventy plugins to fun with CSS selectors and transitions to improving tables of contents to switching to ESM to testing bfcache to refactoring lists to tables.

Published on January 21, 2025, filed under .

My 18-Months Rule for Open-Source Contributions

You make a good-faith contribution to an open-source project. There’s never a response. What do you do? On a rule I’ve established for my own open-source work, and the reasons behind it.

Published on January 16, 2025, filed under .

An Overview of the 50 Highest-Ranking Web Design and Development Glossaries

If you want to look up terms, there are dozens if not hundreds of tech glossaries. However, a search quickly shows differences in how comprehensive and therefore useful these glossaries are—and doesn’t show whether the glossaries are being updated. A view at the glossary landscape.

Published on January 7, 2025, filed under and .

2024

Professional and personal highlights from the past year. Happy 2025!

Published on January 1, 2025, filed under .

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