The Pub

Taking a leaf out if Maggie Appletons garden this is not anymore organized as a blog but more as garden pub. So sit down, take a glass and browse through conversations about technology, design and random thought about the word.

• the ever curious ape

  Some thoughts on hype cycles and the merits of the maturing web community.

• nostalgia for the mess

  A call for simple HTML, beginner-friendly dev, and less obsession with fancy stacks—let’s make the web open, accessible, and embrace indie web chaos

• FSWF

  Fix something without fuzz

• My case for ::scroll-button()

  weighing in on the discussion if scroll-buttons should be DOM elements oder CSS Pseudo-Elements

• Inside The Box

  Matching Markdown Containers and modern CSS features.

• Enhanced Markdown Rendering with markdown-it Plugins

  Eleventy uses markdown-it as its default markdown parser. We can extend it with plugins to add additional syntax and functionality for richer content authoring.

• Of Butterflies And Gardens

  An exploration of mental models in design system architecture.

• The Scroll Bar Problem

  In the ongoing debate about scroll markers and scroll buttons there is one open question.