I explained why we want to use facades when possible, and how to implement a basic one. Based on feedback to those articles and some things I mentioned, let’s up our game and do it better. I will be adding the following things: More than one video source, we’ll add…

Sorry, but I've never been much of a fan of gibberish halfwitted fairy tales. You might also be surprised to know I likely know the Bible better than you. Because nothing will make you an atheist faster than reading -- AND COMPREHENDING -- the Bible. And to be brutally frank…

Every few years I come across some sort of new idiotic excuse that .. well, what these sophist are really saying is “I’m too stupid to understand something, so nobody else shouldn’t be allowed to use it!” It’s really self damning. I’ve heard so many versions of it labelling actual…

As sometimes happens this started life as a response to someone else’s post. It grew in size, scope, and took enough of a different tack on the topic to warrant its own article. In his article here: The broken promise of atomic CSS The (not so) hidden cost of atomic CSSmedium.com Hajime Yamasaki Vukelic brushes aside the leaves used to camouflage what these two…

In my last article I showed a semi-simple way of creating “video facades”, a way to better “embed” third party videos — in this case those from YouTube — in a page. Almost moments after posting it I got a few “friends in the biz” private messaging me asking why…

One of the biggest problems in building fast loading websites is that a lot of times you’re stuck using third party assets that are — to be brutally frank — utter and total shite. Topping the list of such code is anything Google related.. and by extension that means YouTube. …

In Part 1 I compared my version of the page rewrite to Joana Borges Late’s entry in her little competition idea. Now it’s time to actually talk about the code differences, where I think her approach was flawed, and why I think mine’s better. Note this can seem subjective, but…

I’ve been trying to explain to a number of people why I think this “slop classes at everything” approach, presentational classes, and host of other ways of coding a website are flawed if not outright half-assed junk. The poster child for these are the idiocy like BEM, Bootstrap and Tailwind…

Several years ago I wrote about how I think React is junk. The article proved popular and led to a few follow-up's. My recent “Bad Examples” article got me thinking back to that, and how I really dislike all of these scripting frameworks. …