Hello, I’m Andy and I’ll help you to level up your front-end development skills.

I’m a designer and front-end developer who has worked in the design and web industries for over 15 years, and in that time, I have worked with some of the largest organisations in the world, like Google, Harley-Davidson, BSkyB, Unilever, The Natural History Museum, Oracle, Capita, Vice Media and the NHS.

On Piccalilli, I share my knowledge and experience to make you a better front-end developer.

Currently popular on Piccalilli

  1. A CSS project boilerplate

    For the many folks who ask how I write CSS since removing Sass, this is how I and the Set Studio team do it in 2024.

  2. A (more) Modern CSS Reset

    I wrote “A Modern CSS Reset” almost 4 years ago and, yeh, it’s not aged overly well. I spotted it being linked up again a few days ago and thought it’s probably a good idea to publish an updated version.

  3. A Global Documentation Platform

    Inspired by the recent “A Global Design System” article, I talk about what worries me: the future of MDN and a possible alternative to it.

  4. CSS Scroll-triggered Animations with Style Queries

    I stumbled across Ryan Mulligan’s excellent article on scroll-triggered animations which helps them make more sense to me.

  5. Removing list styles without affecting semantics

    Manuel Matuzović solves an age-old problem with dealing with list styles when you don’t want them and I riff about my reset.

  6. A highly configurable switch component using modern CSS techniques

    Learn how build a highly configurable switch component using modern CSS, such as :has(), container queries, Logical Properties and Custom Properties.

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