30 Aug 2021
EMBL.org: Empowering users to navigate a large scientific organization
We tamed the ‘footmap’ by introducing a more effective directory pattern.
The blog
12 Dec 2020
Using Nunjucks templates with React
A lightweight React wrapper with precompiled Nunjucks
11 Nov 2020
Lerna monorepos with fewer tags
Getting the perks of monorepo publishing while curating our git tags and release notes.
13 Jul 2020
Moving from Panini to Eleventy
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.
8 Feb 2020
Publishing since the 2000s
In a career of 20 years, the more things change the more they stay the same.
18 Nov 2019
Building your first page with the Visual Framework 2.0
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.
12 Nov 2019
Fractal and Eleventy: Getting static sites closer to the design system
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.
21 Oct 2019
Integrating Eleventy with gulp, upstream JS
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.
27 Jun 2019
EMBL-EBI Day: Visual Framework 2.0 outreach
Sharing VF 2.0 with developers: flexible, backwards‑compatible components and docs for faster adoption.
12 Sep 2018
Faster scientific websites through reusability
Growing an EMBL‑EBI solution into a Visual Framework for the life sciences.
29 Mar 2018
Inside the Content-Action Model
An ontology to document, plan, define and implement CAM magic.
19 Mar 2018
What if: A web font for data
Alphanumeric data works well for programmatic query, but less so for direct human consumption. What if a font was designed specifically with life sciences data in mind?
10 Feb 2018
Migrating to Zurb Panini 2.0
Not yet stable yet, but has some compelling features.
7 Feb 2018
UX, discovery, analysis + the CAM
What does it mean to 'do UX' with our Content Action Model? Beyond the buzz.
22 Jan 2018
The Content-Action Model origin story
Beyond the Core Content Model and into organisations, actions.