My website has been gaslighting you

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 are features that fill me with dread though and right at the top...

Did you know we send out a newsletter twice a week? I know, I know, there’s a lot of newsletters out there, but let me tell you what The Index does: It goes out on a Wednesday and Friday The focus is around 5 links per issue and that’s it We try to get a nice blend of front-end, design and interesting stuff from around the web like nice websites,...

Before we get started, I can’t stress the following enough: the choices we make at Set Studio don’t challenge your choices. You might also not agree with our choices and that’s fine, but we don’t need alternatives evangelising to us. To paraphrase Rachel Andrew: If it works, it’s right I do, however, get asked a lot about what technologies and...

It’s very rare I write for other publications than this one, but I wanted to give CSS-Tricks (especially Geoff) a nod because they’re working their way back to what they did best. This article sort of fits Piccalilli, but I think it fits CSS-Tricks better. I certainly wanted it to have mass-reach too because I’m obsessed with soft skills and how...

I started 2024 with a super in-depth Reality Check article (more of those coming this year) so I thought I’d start simple this year because I’m still a bit tired from, y’know, writing a whole CSS course 😅 What is masonry? I’m not going to presume that everyone knows what a masonry layout is, but you’ve almost certainly seen one websites like...