While I've done a lot of reference documentation writing, my favourite type of work is writing tutorials and "how to" content. I enjoy the challenge of understanding a technology and an audience, then explaining the technology to that audience. AI seems to be particularly bad at creating this kind of content. When people try, they...

So there I am reading Unsung when I come across this quote from Jef Raskin : An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human…

An interactive field guide to the Chrome DevTools Performance panel: waterfall, flame chart, LCP, CLS, INP, and the Insights panel.

CSS containment lets you isolate layout and paint work to self-contained ‘islands’. Here’s what each contain value does and how to use it safely.

Maybe not, but I’ll break these down into three categories because it depends on context and intent. Pretend this post also applies for pressing Esc. Action Required If the user must complete a task t...

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

Web design engineer, UX designer, teacher, and speaker – helping teams build websites and digital products with a focus on CSS, accessibility, and performance.

A get-right-down-to-it online course for Web designers and developers who want to start creating more accessible Web user interfaces and digital products today

We reward complexity and ignore simplicity. In interviews, design reviews, and promotions. Here’s how to fix it.

No-Vary-Search lets HTTP caches ignore irrelevant query parameters such as UTM tags, while still keeping meaningful ones like product variants in the cache key.

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about what actually persists.

Being open and transparent is a radical strength, not a weakness.

“Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast.” US Navy SEALS training mantra Another day, another data set telling us what we already knew. In the latest AI Engineering Report from Faros, the so…

Remaining vigilant about cognitive debt and atrophy.

No web standard should require you to agree to an advertising company’s “terms of use.”

Alt: The Mandalorian saying "This is the way"

I have a friend who built a recording studio in his garden. The building – an adapted garden office – cost £15,000. Inside, he installed a pre-owned Neve 24-track mixing console with mo…

Alt: a man in a blue sweater is writing in a notebook

I'm a frontend developer in Graz, specialized in HTML, accessibility, and CSS layout and architecture.

The personal blog of Dave Rupert, web developer and podcaster from Austin, TX.

AI coding tools are optimising the wrong thing and nobody wants to hear it. Writing code was already fast. The bottleneck is everything else: unclear requirements, review queues, terrified deploy cult...

When you make speed and “moving fast” the biggest priority on a project or in an organization, the first thing to breakdown is talking to each other. Talking takes time. Consensus is expensive and slo...

Web design engineer, UX designer, teacher, and speaker – helping teams build websites and digital products with a focus on CSS, accessibility, and performance.