Use the eleventy.before
configuration event to always have a current CSS.
2025: All posts
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A tiny taxonomy of meetings by Jeremy Keith. Three types of meetings:
- Divergent meetings: Generate ideas.
- Convergent meetings: Come to a decision.
- Chemistry Meetings: No tangible output. Get to know each other.
It´s a good idea to communicate upfront what type of meeting you are planning to have to help avoiding frustration among participants about the meeting outcome.
PagesCMS is a CMS for static sites hosted on GitHub that looks interesting. It is MIT-licensed and made by Ronan Berder. There is a online version to hook into, but it is as well possible to host it yourself.
With Polishing your typography with line height units Jen Simmons is putting a spotlight on the overlooked lh
unit. It makes a big difference!
Line height units give us a direct way to tie any size in our layout to the vertical rhythm of the text.
I like to apply it in a flow css class to set the space between direct siblings:
.flow > * + * {
margin-block-start: 1em; /* fallback for browsers not supporting the lh unit */
margin-block-start: 1lh;
}
The Human in the Loop, by Pablo Stanley.
The LLM writes, reviews, and rewrites its own code. But when it gets stuck, it really gets stuck. Fixing a small bug can spiral into an endless loop — or a full rewrite of the whole project. And you can’t step in, because you don’t speak the language fluently. You just nod along, hoping the next retry works. […] I jokingly tell our dev team I’m a hacker (they silently hate me a bit haha). But I’ve also gained a deep respect for them — the real programmers. The stuff AI does today is built on decades of human work. And when things break, it’s still the humans who fix it… for now.
Aligning a flexible number of items horizontally in one row.
anchor-tool.com allows to select a desired anchor positioning and see the required CSS code. The tool supports logical properties! As of March 7 only working in Chromium browsers.
Navigating the web platform by Patrick Bosset, product manager on the Edge team at Microsoft.
As a web developer, navigating the web platform isn't always easy. Here are ways to keep track of what you can use, of what's new in web browsers, and ways you can influence the development of the platform by making your voice heard.
Paris – Brest – Paris
HTML Minification for Static Sites with html-minifier, by Jim Nielsen.
A checklist for your tsconfig.json, by Dr. Axel Rauschmayer.
I very much like the idea of the stream by Linus Lee.