Creating warm, dappled light with CSS and SVG
I added a sunlit ambience effect to this site using pure CSS and SVG — no JavaScript, just gradients and blend modes.
The blog
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Introducing a "Work" section
A home for evidence-led impact stories documenting measurable outcomes from my work on platforms, performance, and design systems.
The power of the pause: How planning beats prompt tuning
Traditional project planning techniques help ensure maximal benefits from AI tools.
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.
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.
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.
Predictable, token-based filenames with Eleventy Image
How I swapped Eleventy Image’s hashed outputs for readable, stable names — and the trade‑offs.
Exposing HTML: The No-JS nudist CSS toggle
A tiny footer checkbox to turns your site styles off with no JavaScript required.
Go-go-go … I missed EmbedPDF
It seems a robust, embeddable PDF viewer for on‑page reading already exists.
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.
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.
Making PDFs more viewable
Because ‘Just give them the PDF’ isn’t good enough.
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.
It’s been 3.5 years
A long-overdue update.
Something new for 2022
This month, I’m saying goodbye to my projects at EMBL but my career in web work continues.
