
It’s been 3.5 years
A long-overdue update.

A long-overdue update.

This month, I’m saying goodbye to my projects at EMBL but my career in web work continues.

From contentHub to VF 2.0: foundations for faster, more flexible journeys across One EMBL.

We tamed the ‘footmap’ by introducing a more effective directory pattern.
EMBL.org's footer had become a screen-and-a-half of densely packed links — failing users and stakeholders alike.
EMBL's 80+ properties ran on different CMSs — and content was trapped in each one.

A lightweight React wrapper with precompiled Nunjucks

Getting the perks of monorepo publishing while curating our git tags and release notes.

Back in February 2018, I wrote about updating this site to use a static-site generator by Zurb (makers of the Foundation Framework) called Panini.

In a career of 20 years, the more things change the more they stay the same.

A quick start on how to work with Visual Framework 2.0 CSS, JS and structure your HTML — and lots of links to learn more.

For the Visual Framework 2.0 component system we recommend Eleventy for static sites: Eleventy sites get direct access to component templates with associated metadata and a focused component library.

Dozens of teams across six countries were solving the same UI problems independently — duplicating effort and fragmenting user experience.

Eleventy notes that it, "works great with data — use both front matter and external data files" but the static site generator stops short of working well with upstream in-memory data objects for local development.

Sharing VF 2.0 with developers: flexible, backwards‑compatible components and docs for faster adoption.
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