Come for the features, stay for the details

I highly recommend watching this talk from Rasmus Andsersson. One quote that stood out to me that I think rings very true is “your users come for the features, but stay for the details”. You can have all the features in the world, but if they aren’t well thought out, lack attention to detail or […]

Bringing life back to old Flash content

When I started this blog nearly 15 years ago, Flash was at its peak and much of the content on this blog was related to Flash. Since the Flash player no longer exists, a lot of content had either been lost or old posts completely busted. There was even still some video embeds using old […]

Dynamic transparent color based on text color

Here is a small CSS snippet to calculate a transparent version of the current text color. This is useful in a themeable component system where semi-transparent elements like dividers, icons or backgrounds need to adapt to the surrounding text color. We can use the new color-mix function, which is now supported in all browsers, along […]

Building a wide-gamut colour picker

Now that browsers support wide-colour gamuts with P3, I have been wanting to build a colour picker that could select colours from outside the standard sRGB gamut. As the feature became more broadly available in browsers I’d seen a few examples popup from various people such as Gradient.style, the ColorJS.io picker demo, and OKLCH.com. However, […]

Nested corner radii

When designing a user interface with rounded corners you will likey run into situtation where you have nested rounded corners. It could be a button in a card or input, or a box inside a modal. What should the inner radius be? The easy way out is to just use the same radius, but it […]

New blog design, again

I posted recently about an updated blog design, the first in 8 years. And now I’m doing another post about another redesign. My original intention was to build a front end in React+Remix and use WordPress headlessly as the backend. I ran into a few issues with this approach and it was going to be […]

Spray paint stencils

I wanted to do a little update on my spray paint stencil experiments using HTML and JavaScript. While it’s not a recent thing, I realised that I had never done a update with the last painting app I built. It was a couple years ago that I built Graffiti Monster, an experimental drawing app which […]

Gradient text gaps with CSS

I was reading an article recently that had some really nice graphic design examples. One piece that stood out was a poster that had a continuous gradient that filled the gaps between words in a block a text. I wondered if it could be achieved dynamically in CSS. Below is my result. Note that this […]