Thoughts on building fast, accessible, and resilient web apps. Drawn from years of real-world experience, a couple of books, and a lot of hard lessons. Expect deep dives, practical tips, a bit of history, and the occasional opinionated take on where the web is going.

Latest posts

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  AI Is Just the Latest Frontend Killer. Don’t Panic. 9 July 2025

  Apparently, frontend developers are about to be made obsolete. This all sounds very familiar.

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  Building the Web in Islands, Not Mountains 25 June 2025

  Loading spinners. Hydration delays. 300kB for a blog post. There’s a better way to build the web.

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  Hacking Layout Before CSS Even Existed 11 June 2025

  The early web had no layout system. No CSS. So we improvised, slicing, stretching, and nesting our way to structure.

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  Want to Be a Better Frontend Engineer? Try a Week On-Call 4 June 2025

  You’re going to hate me for saying this, but I actually like being on-call. Honestly! It’s taught me more about frontend quality than any bug tracker ever did.

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