web development
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Musings On The Mechanics of Writing Code
PostOr, “Why is CSS like that? It doesn’t have to be”; and other answers that spend a little too long picking on BEM.
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Rendering Editor Controls in a Meta Box
PostLook, there are good reasons to utilize metaboxes, just not, you know, for their intended functionality.
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Theme Typography Presets in Gutenberg
PostA proof-of-concept for easily-applied typography presets in the editor. Set styles in theme.json and select them like you would in any other word processor.
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Making use of Design Tokens in theme.json
PostThis one weird trick (putting design tokens into theme.json) makes pixel-perfect theme development easy*!
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Using variable fonts in theme.json
PostIf you are trying to use a variable font in your custom block theme via theme.json, you may be running into some issues that I also saw and, mostly, solved.
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Hello worlds!
PostAfter about 8 years of stagnation, I have finally dragged my primary web presence into the second decade of the 21st century. And the biggest addition is not the new custom WordPress block theme I’ve dubbed “Boldly Go Blocks” based on the former site, it’s this that you’re reading right now: a blog! When I