Config 2024: In defense of an old pixel (Marcin Wichary, Director of Design, Figma) - YouTube
Everyone’s raving about this great talk by Marcin, and rightly so!
Utopia - an introduction - YouTube
James and Trys have made this terrific explanatory video about Utopia. They pack a lot into less than twenty minutes but it’s all very clearly and methodically explained.
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The Folly of Chasing Demographics - YouTube
I just attended this talk from Heydon at axe-con and it was great! Of course it was highly amusing, but he also makes a profound and fundamental point about how we should be going about working on the web.
The Cost Of JavaScript - 2023 - YouTube
A great talk from Addy on just how damaging client-side JavaScript can be to the user experience …and what you can do about it.
Jack Franklin – Abstractions, complexities and off-ramps – All Day Hey! 2023 - YouTube
This is a terrific talk by Jack on how to deal with the tooling involved in modern front-end development:
- Maintaining control,
- Dependency awareness,
- Lean on browser primitives,
- Have an exit strategy.
Rich Harris: Hot takes on the web 🌶️ - YouTube
I don’t agree with all of these takes-of-varying-spiciness, but Rich Harris is always worth paying attention to.
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Talking about style
The transcript of a talk.
Downloading from Google Fonts
For some reason, Google Fonts only provides .ttf files if you’re self-hosting. I don’t know why.
More writing on web.dev
Another five articles on modern responsive web design.
Making the website for Research By The Sea
Having fun with view transitions and scroll-driven animations.
Schooltijd
Going back to school in Amsterdam.