Remy Sharp’s b:log

A px is not a px [blog]

Recently I was trying to extract some glyphs from some various fonts and in doing so I had a fundamental assumption challenged and…

Picking dependencies

Every web developer has faced this conundrum: which dependency should I pick? Why did we select jQuery over Prototype, or Prototype over Mootools, or Vue over React, or Angular over Ember, or Lodash over underscore and so on a forever for unlimited combinations for unlimited dependencies.

Toggle light and dark

There’s odd excitement around dark themes these days, but I find that being able to switch between a light and dark…

How I’m teaching the kids coding for the web

Early this year (pre country-wide lockdown), my son, 8¼, asked that I start doing “Coding Mondays” with him and his sister (then 5½). Though the littlest wasn’t so interested in programming (though she had some fun with BASIC, as story for another…

10 years ago: CSS Compression

What follows is a blog post that I had partially written over 10 years ago. In fact, I started writing it on an afternoon on 31st Jan 2009. I can’t recall exactly what prompted the thoughts that are outlined in this post but I do know that there was some discussion across the…

Cyber Weekend Learnings

I’m not good a prompting my own stuff usually (I think) but I think it should make a lot of sense to promote my own hard work on my own blog.

It’s the infamous black friday and “cyber monday” (the one where the shops try to stretch out the sales) and I have my…

buddy.works

As a software developer I’m using tools day in and day out and depending on time, I’m usually interested in alternatives that help my…

ffconf v11: a roundup

ffconf 2019, our eleventh version wrapped up last Friday and it’s fair to say that even now as I write, I feel full of…

Nice imports with Next.js

During my React based development, I’ll find myself importing a module from '../../../components/Widget' and that ../../../ is anyone's guess if it's right first time or not.

Except I discovered that Next.js (which is what I do most of my React dev with)…