It's my job and still a passion; articles, tutorials, notes, and resources exploring web development are all contained here.

I've been a full-time web developer since 2004, and a keen hobbyist before that. I've been a member of the HTML Working Group and Responsive Images Community Group. If you've heard of me before it's likely because you've also heard of Adaptive Images; an old but still useful project of mine.

I've been writing about web related topics for a decade, and though these things date quickly my archive of old posts is still available, because link-rot is bad.

What I write

I write under the following categories:

Articles

Articles are long-form discourse about whatever topic they address. They've usually had considerable thought put into them, and are sometimes an expansion on a topic raised earlier as a 'notes' post.

Notes

Off-the-cuff thoughts, notes, and items of interest; these have less time dedicated to them than Articles and sometimes will lead to Articles later on.

Tutorials

Tutorials are intended as step-by-step instructions to achieve a specific task; they're focussed on that and not so much about any broader related topics.

External Resources

Things I've seen elsewhere that I'd like to refer to in the future; essentially these are 'bookmarks' for myself, which I thought might be good to share.

Timeline

N.b., Timeline excludes Resource posts:

VueJS and Progressive Enhancement

11th February 2019, Notes

Using VueJS to replace existing functional HTML with an enhanced Vue component, only when JS is available... is a lot easier than I realised.

The New Web Development

22nd January 2019, Articles

A paradigm shift in Web Development is underway, as exciting as it is intimidating. For traditional web developers who played it safe over the last few years, the time to re-assess the landscape has long since arrived...

The cost of developing and adopting new CSS features

20th November 2017, Articles

There's a non-zero cost to implementing new CSS features, and you need to decide when you can pay it.

Why I probably won't use Resource Hints' pre-fetch and pre-load directives

21st June 2016, Notes

The biggest trend and problem of the last few years is ever bigger web pages wasting ever more bandwidth. And we're given tools to load more crap based on a guess as to what the user might want to do next?

Responsive and Accessible 'Read more...' links

30th June 2015, Tutorials

My trick for creating 'read more' links that work well for everyone.

Speed up website response times with nginx

06th March 2015, Tutorials

The why, when, and how of using nginx to cache a CMS's output.

HTTP2 for front-end web developers

03rd March 2015, Notes

HTTP2 will mean a change in how we should build websites. The best practices of HTTP1 are harmful in a HTTP2 world.

Trying Zurb Foundation; what I found.

18th February 2015, Articles

I've never built a website based on a third-party framework, but I recently had cause to try one, spending a week with Foundation. Here's what I found...