The Ol' Blog

Posts, aka Blog Posts

Below is a list of posts that I really wanted to share or that I felt compelled to write because I didn't find it when I was looking. It seems that I'm up to 72 that have survived refactors and redesigns since 2012.

Chris Coyier — Chris Coyier
@chriscoyier

While I'm glad you have the interest in checking out my blog, I want to help bring back this old tradition of sharing links to other people's blogs, via a blog roll. The decline of a single place, like Twitter, where lots of web folks share their links makes it even more important to have ways of finding great blogs.

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A Short Review of My First Webflow Project

A mix "no code" and "yes code"

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Strapi Series, Part 11: Header and Footer Links

Refactoring components to use the links data

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Render ATL 2023

Recap of an awesome experience

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Strapi Series, Part 10: Links Data and Requests

The first collection and another single type

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Strapi Series, Part 9: Thinking In Data

Learning valuable lessons from initial creation attempts

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Strapi Series, Part 8: Font Sizes and Colors

Identifying patterns and planning for implementation

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Strapi Series, Part 7: Light and Dark Mode

Setting up dark mode with a curveball

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Strapi Series, Part 6: Coming Soon QA

Adding TypeScript and Storybook to verify and see data

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Strapi Series, Part 4: A Fake Company

Creating some details to make the project fun

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Strapi Series, Part 5: A Coming Soon Component

Hooking Strapi up to a component for collecting emails

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Strapi Series, Part 1: Project Outline

An overview of what I hope to create

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Strapi Series, Part 2: Architectural Decisions

Basic decisions around the tech stack

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Strapi Series, Part 3: Repo Setup

Cloning, yarning, and command lining

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I Didn't Write This Blog Post

The computers have taken over this website

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You Can't Make Others Love CSS

Sharing my take on the utility CSS wars

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Fixing x-robots nofollow with Vercel

Fixing a an issue when proxying to Vercel

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Custom collection list markup in Eleventy

Trying something with using custom markup for each item in a collection list

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Eleventy and Netlify for NPM newbs like me

Sharing some basics of configuration that were new to me

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Fighting Tooling Fatigue

Failing deploys, build configurations, and plugins oh my

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Simple side nav: Flexbox vs. Grid

A popular question with a pretty clear answer in this case

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Mapping On The Web Is Hard, Sorta

Sharing what I learned trying to build an interactive map

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Mapping the Long Island Murder Victims

A map of a series of unsolved murders in Long Island from the 1990s until the 2010s

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Visualizing a Disruptive Album: beerbongs & bentleys

Applying some of what I learned in Fullstack D3 to a passion project

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Prop Data Preferences

What's the "best practice" for passing down data

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Visiting Gilgo Beach

Watching Ocean Parkway to see where the Gilgo Four were discovered

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Getting Closer To Critical CSS By Default

How adopting CSS-In-JS tooling is improving performance

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Injecting a banner populated with cookie data

Sharing how I made a banner for a promo

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Embracing Emotion, with Gatsby

Crushing on Gatsby and trying to organize my Emotions

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A New Adventure

On joining DataCamp to build a front-end team

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Building a Small PWA with Preact and Firebase

Sharing how I built a little exercise tracker

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Turning the Page

Leaving Code School and Pluralsight

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Stumbling Through Learning About Event Listeners

In which I think I figure something out but I'm wrong

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I'm Learning How to Solve Problems with JavaScript

Showing the solution to a brain teaser with JS

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Reducing HTML Email Code

Sharing how I took a a crack at refactoring an email

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Rethinking My eMMail Workflow

Changing from all local dev to using Builder

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Pursuing a Nanodegree (1 of ?)

Diving into learning JavaScript on Udacity

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TIL Executing Local Ruby

Sharing how I learned how to use Ruby to solve a problem

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The Email Design Conference 2015

A recap from attending this awesome event

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Front-End Conf Lives!

The conference goes on, thanks to friends

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Give Back

Supporting an awesome project in our community

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Experiment - Personal JSON-based API

Trying out a way to access a personal bio as an API

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Thank You

People are amazing, thank you so much

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No Sleep til Portland

Building up to running our first event in Portland

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Front-End Conf Finales

Our last two times of running the conf

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Why Grok is Special

A review of the awesomeness that is Grok

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Fun With Responsive Email Banners

Responsive design and HTML Tables, FTW

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A Shift in Focus

Changing from a split role to a product one

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I Forgot About Dre

Review of the awesome work behind the Beats app

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An API Event?

Testing the waters for an event I'd like to run

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Front-End Conf Update

Updates about this and future events

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Photoshop's Timeline Rocks

Sharing my experience in making a GIF with the timeline

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Upcoming Events in '13

A listing of confs to attend in 2013

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Front-End Conf 2013

A recap of from running the 2013 event

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The Trouble with "The Trouble with Code School"

A reply to a post about online learning

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Mixture and Firebase and Public APIs

Playing with a cool tool

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Playing With Data URIs

Sharing some benefits of using data URIs for images

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Going Live With Number Five

Launching the site for the 5th Front-End Conf

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Ricardo Rally Time

A friend is trying to build an iPad app

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Sass Color Variable Pop Quiz

Sharing results from asking when people set variables

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Future of Front-End Conf

Some changes for future versions of the events

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I'm Down With SVG

Sharing the benefits of SVG over PNG

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Circles Conf 2012

A recap from attending Circles Conf

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re:build Conference 2012

A recap from attending re:build Conf

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See Nick Preprocess

The launch of Assembling Sass at Code School

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Playing With CSS Hat

Mondays are so different at Envy

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Mondays Rock

Mondays are so different at Envy

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Production vs. Shipping

The differences it makes when you think about shipping

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Growing with Envy

Joining Envy Labs and Code School!

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A Sass Noob using Math for Flexible Widths

Sharing as I learn about mixins

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Sass and Compass Pairing with Michael Parenteau

Big thank you to Michael for showing me the ropes

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Rebuilding

Why contemplating our mortality can be a powerful catalyst for change

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Fluid

Waxing poetic on thinking about responsive design by watching nature