The Writing Bug
Just published a couple articles, Kiss My Classname, A Counterpoint on Medium, and Build a Custom CMS for a Serverless Static Site Generator on CSS Tricks.
The Atomic/Functional CSS Movement
When I published Expressive CSS a few months ago, I knew it would be controversial, and it was (as evidenced in the comments on my Content & Display Patterns with Expressive CSS post). In the time since, there have been many articles and projects published by others that also advocate lightweight, scalable CSS using utility classes that are easy to write and understand....
I Wrote Our Developer Job Description
We’re hiring a new developer, and I tried to capture a little of the flavor of what it is I love about working at Gesture, and do it in a hopefully entertaining way.
Notes from UX Camp Chicago
It was a rainy day in Chicago yesterday, so it was a perfect time to spend inside at Columbia College for UX Camp Chicago. It was yet another great conference put on by the excellent Russ Unger and the excellent team at ChicagoCamps.org.
Content Display Patterns with Expressive CSS
See my writeup at johnpolacek.github.io/expressive-css-content-display-patterns
Keep gh-pages and master in sync with one line of code
If you publish projects to Github, then you may be using a gh-pages branch to create a nice home for your project with a demo and some documentation. A common pattern is to keep the gh-pages and master branches in sync with each other — whatever code is in master is the same as your project page (gh-pages).