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.
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Making disaster economics compelling for global policymakers
UNDRR's flagship disaster risk report needed to communicate $2.3 trillion in annual losses — without burying the message in data or slowing access for users in disaster-prone regions.
Predictable, token-based filenames with Eleventy Image
How I swapped Eleventy Image’s hashed outputs for readable, stable names — and the trade‑offs.
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.
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.
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.
Faster scientific websites through reusability
Growing an EMBL‑EBI solution into a Visual Framework for the life sciences.
Scaling Drupal e-commerce for 150,000 satellite-connected customers
Every timeout during checkout cost revenue. Every slow page load over satellite eroded trust.