The three freedoms of the web
What makes a piece of content, or sub-platform truly open, and part of the open web's content corpus? Here's a framework to help you answer this question.
Paul Bakaus
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Maybe everything is changing, all the time
Remy recently posted an interesting, thought-provoking read on framework fatigue and how we’re making the web more complex ourselves: If you didn’t gather off the bat from the title, the problem with developing front end projects isn’t that it’s harder or more complicated, it’s that...
Does the web have product-market fit?
How should using the web feel like? What should the experience be like? What is the web we want?
Gifs must die
GIFs are bad. Not in popular thing (looping animations), but the technology behind it.
Create more, destroy less
I’ve recently read that we should consume less and create more, and it’s a very worthwhile read that much more elaborately expands on what I wrote about Gadget Zombies couple years ago. I wrote my original post 7 years ago, but it’s one of the few things...
Multiline truncated text with "show more" button (with just CSS)
TL;DR: I built a CSS-only (~ish) solution for multiline truncated text with read more button. The other day, truncated text came up during a discussion in the office, and I since wondered if CSS has come far enough to be able to do truncated text right, that is, supporting...