Articles
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How a handful of independent publishers are doing their thing
I really like paying good writers so I thought I’d recommend a handful of publications I’m paying for and look at how they do things.
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I’m worried about the tabbing behaviour, rather than the syntax and name of CSS masonry
There’s a lot of chatter about CSS masonry at the moment. Should it be called “masonry” and should it be grid? Let’s worry about the basics first.
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Full text RSS is back
Ever since we re-platformed Piccalilli to Astro, full text RSS no longer worked like it did with Eleventy. We’ve hacked together a fix and now it does!
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Applying P3 colours on an existing project
The set.studio site is powered by design tokens, which for colours, are hex codes. I managed to automatically convert those to P3 colours with a custom PostCSS plugin.
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Upcoming custom element support in React
React’s version 19 Beta is boasting full custom element support so I cover how that could impact projects on our radar and how this new support will make an impact.
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CSS inheritance
Inheritance truly is a superpower and it’s what makes developing on the web a joy if you embrace it. In this quick post, I’m going to convert you into a super fan.
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An evolution, not a revolution
We’ve refreshed the look and feel of both the Piccalilli site and the brand so wrote up a little about that and the future of the platform.
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A primer on the cascade and specificity
Often feared by developers, the cascade and specificity is actually really simple if you utilise the right mental model when authoring CSS.
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I want to elevate more people with Piccalilli Links
A big part of the Piccalilli Links thing is I want to elevate good writers. I need help discovering those writers though!
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How we’re approaching theming with modern CSS
We’ve started a new project which requires heavy, creative theming, so I made a prototype to test some ideas out.