How I’m using “AI”
An honest roundup of what I personally think of “AI” and how it genuinely has its uses in my day-to-day work.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!