Using the JIT compiler in Tailwind CSS
Large development stylesheets were making browser inspection painfully slow, until Tailwind 2.1’s JIT preview changed the experience of building and testing my interfaces.
11 Jun 2021
3 min read
Streamlining your CSS development
From plain CSS to preprocessors and utility classes, changes in my workflow have helped me work more efficiently while still producing the same browser-ready stylesheets.
10 Jul 2020
14 min read
Safari: quirky or rule follower?
A scrolling panel that behaved differently in Safari sent me into the CSS specifications, where following the rules explained a particularly frustrating layout problem.
26 Aug 2019
6 min read
Bulma, Vue and Webpack: oh my!
Modernising an application that had served for a decade pushed me into Vue, Bulma and Webpack, with reusable components and a different build process reshaping my frontend development.
16 Mar 2019
6 min read
Bulma: road-testing the CSS framework
Rebuilding my own website gave me a chance to try Bulma on a real project, exploring its responsive columns, navigation and customisation alongside my usual approach to design.
26 Sep 2018
4 min read
Autoprefixer helps me write better code
Remembering every browser prefix gets old quickly, so I let Autoprefixer handle the repetitive declarations while keeping my source CSS easier to read, maintain and write with confidence.
14 Sep 2018
3 min read
Moving from LESS to SCSS
Switching preprocessors meant rethinking familiar habits, but SCSS’s variables and mixins earned their place in my workflow, with a few adjustments to how I organised shared styles.
30 Aug 2018
4 min read
