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I’ve been experimenting lately with a new way to apply color values in my CSS. Instead of setting explicit values for each color, I calculate the entire palette from a small set of base colors. It’s not an applicable solution… More

Confession: I don’t enjoy code. Not really. I know that sounds strange coming from someone who’s made over 2,000 code contributions this year. But it’s true: code, in and of itself, brings me little joy. If I felt I… More

Shortly after we opened up Drizzle, our pattern library framework, Luke Askew started a wonderful discussion of pattern library maintainability in that project’s repository. This inspired me to reflect on the pattern libraries we’d started or contributed to… More

Today, A List Apart published a little something I wrote entitled Adapting to Input. It is truly an honor to be an author for such an esteemed publication…… More

Technical articles about Progressive Web Apps abound, but few tackle the question of why businesses should build Progressive Web Apps and why they should do so now. More

After months of redesigning in public, we’ve finally pushed the button that unleashed the new cloudfour.com on the world. For me, this project has been a dream come true. I was a fan of Cloud Four long… More

Here are four truths about input that have changed the way I look at the web. 1. Input is exploding The last decade has seen an explosion of new types of input. The pace of input innovation is like nothing… More

In January, Cloudinary released a free tool for generating responsive image breakpoints that was based on some of the ideas I had for picking breakpoints based on performance budgets. Today they’ve updated with some amazing new… More

Part I of this series established that some of the challenges in building service workers for complex websites stem from having to accommodate page request variations. In this iteration, we’ll touch on how to handle similar variations in the… More

Spending the last few days in New York City for Smashing Conference reminded me of an analogy for Mobile First Design that seems to resonate with people. If you’ve made your life fit in a tiny New York apartment,… More