27 Sep 2025
Embracing px and rem for CSS
Miriam Suzanne from OddBird explains how combining CSS units can lead to more robust and user-friendly typography.
All writing
23 Sep 2025
The power of the pause: How planning beats prompt tuning
Traditional project planning techniques help ensure maximal benefits from AI tools.
19 Sep 2025 | Note post
Thoughtful AI integration beats bolted-on Clippy
Lullabot's thoughts on 'How to build your AI integration strategy right'.
19 Sep 2025
A stop-gap Drupal module to kill Word Junk in CKEditor 5
A tiny CKEditor 5 plugin for Drupal that strips inline Word-like junk in one click.
14 Sep 2025
Individualism is the flavor AI chatbots can't stomach
The AI experience has drained traffic from reference content, but leaves a path forward of human-centric experiences, interactivity, and better on-site value.
12 Sep 2025
Sacrificing knowledge in the name of data
The goal is not more data, but data to facilitate the story of what we're trying to achieve.
7 Sep 2025
Predictable, token-based filenames with Eleventy Image
How I swapped Eleventy Image’s hashed outputs for readable, stable names — and the trade‑offs.
6 Sep 2025 | Note post
Exposing HTML: The No-JS nudist CSS toggle
A tiny footer checkbox to turns your site styles off with no JavaScript required.
5 Sep 2025 | Note post
Go-go-go … I missed EmbedPDF
It seems a robust, embeddable PDF viewer for on‑page reading already exists.
4 Sep 2025 | Note post
Recursion: it’s fonts all the way down
I’ve moved from Now Alt to Recursive, an open‑source variable font that unifies UI text and code with one flexible file.
31 Aug 2025
A simpler, faster site: moving to pure Eleventy v3
I upgraded the site to Eleventy v3, removed Gulp and the Visual Framework, and simplified everything.
17 Aug 2025 | Project note
Reclaiming three weeks of editorial time every month
No single issue was breaking UNDRR's editorial experience — it was an accumulation of paper cuts that drained editor time and patience.
11 Aug 2025
Making PDFs more viewable
Because ‘Just give them the PDF’ isn’t good enough.
10 Jul 2025
Drupal delayed by Azure MySQL
Managed Azure Database for MySQL cost us 50%–80% slow down. After six months of pain, we moved our Drupal 10 site back to a classic VM and halved our page‑load times.
1 Jul 2025 | Project note
Recovering platform performance after a cloud migration failure
UNDRR's Azure migration followed the playbook — managed services, platform-as-a-service, letting the cloud handle complexity. Instead, performance degraded and user trust eroded.