Robuta

Some thoughts on attempts to create gold out of nothing, and how generative AI, in many ways, mirrors that doomed pursuit

The story of building Quina, a word game Progressive Web App built with Nuxt, and launched on the Google Play Store.

A running list of uncommon, strange, and/or archaic words embedded in common idioms, to help you type them correctly next time you use them.

A tribute to the member of our family we lost this weekend.

Front-end developer, designer, teacher and writer

Why I worry about the effect GitHub Copilot is having and will continue to have on the accessibility of the web at scale.

Creating high-quality, polished web animations is both a science and an art. This post covers the best things I've learned over the last decade of crafting web...

The only thing React is better at than other front-end frameworks is being popular. So how long will that self-perpetuating cycle continue?

It’s easy to get caught up adding HTML classes (and IDs) to each and every element we want to style, but the fact is, WordPress helps us out with specific...

WordPress security isn’t as difficult as most people think; the leading causes of hacked sites and malware tend to be some combination of misinformation and...

Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2024.

I feel it's important to issue a critical reading of Automattic's post, as it doesn't seem to offer much of a serious or objective examination of the issues at...

If you don't often look beyond established comfortable defaults, you might be surprised to learn just how far the world of frontend has moved away from React,...

Life in America has long felt like a game played between adults and children; a game where one side knows the rules and is dedicated to keeping them, and the...

Updating Quina to version 2.0 filled my head with new ideas that I just couldn't walk away from. Eventually, those ideas took the shape of a whole new word...

One of life's greatest simple pleasures is creating something just for yourself.

Learn the fundamentals of SvelteKit by building a statically generated blog from scratch, with Markdown support, Sass, an API, and an RSS feed.