web development

The Invoker Commands API is awesome, especially designing custom elements with custom commands as a really flexible and simple way for consumers to interact with it.

Not only is this is such a cool project on its own (finally easy-to-style media controls!), but it’s a testament to how great native web components can be. I’ve not really dug into them very deep but seeing one that’s got some complexity to it and yet sophisticated and seamless…

The day is actually here: I wrote my first nested CSS – just plain ol’ CSS, no preprocessors – for a little project, and it works great in all browsers 🎉

I’m working on some reusable components to use with some new Gutenberg blocks and realized that I need to get some data from the server. I ended up learning how to set up a REST endpoint and accidentally learned redux (or at least WordPress’ version) to set up a data store.

Throughout my ever-present research into design systems, I have come across several writings about the divide between design and development. Continuing to iterate on an internal design system at work, I have been going back through some of these and this is a collection of the parts that stuck out…

I am working on some twig stuff and needed a way to test out sharing components between projects, so I wanted to set up a quick PHP site that can use twig templates without messing with any frameworks or complicated server setups. It turns out that PHP already routes…