Owning my own bookmarks over 20 years via Joe Crawford

A blog post by Ryan Carniato titled “Web Components Are Not the Future” has recently stirred a lot of controversy. A few other JS framework authors pitched in, expressing frustration and disillusionment around Web Components. Some Web Components folks wrote rebuttals, while others repeatedly tried to get to the bottom of the issues, so they could...

My text editor of choice, TextMate, is old. Version 1 was released in 2004. Version 2 was announced in 2009 and has been in alpha & beta release since 2012. TextMate is old enough that a whole new generation of text editors have emerged and eclipsed it, most notably Sublime Text and Atom. They have built upon TextMate's successes and learned from...

I’ve been doing this CSS thing for over 15 years and I’ve seen a lot of change in that time. A lot of the time, I see a new CSS feature and immediately get excited about how helpful it’s going to be for me and the team in the long term. A good example of that is text-box-trim.

There's a famous quote that people in tech like to use. It was supposedly said by Henry Ford about the invention of the automobile: If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said 'faster horses'. There is no actual evidence that Ford ever said this - regardless, it has become a favorite adage for people talking about...

I still get people asking me why I use Sublime Text in 2025 given there are soooo many other great editors out there. My response: there is? Because I still think Sublime Text holds up as a great editor.