Technology
The case for zero JavaScript
Most pages are documents. Shipping them without a script is a feature, not a limitation.
Technology
Typing your content with schemas
A typo in a date should stop the build, with the file and the line, before it reaches readers.
Incremental builds, one read at a time
Which pages change when you fix a typo? Record what each page reads, and you know.
Series
Building a static site generator
Three notes on schemas, incremental builds and an admin for plain files.
Typing your content with schemas
A typo in a date should stop the build, with the file and the line, before it reaches readers.
Incremental builds, one read at a time
Which pages change when you fix a typo? Record what each page reads, and you know.
An admin panel for plain files
A local editor that writes the same Markdown you commit, and changes only the lines you touched.
Design
An admin panel for plain files
A local editor that writes the same Markdown you commit, and changes only the lines you touched.
What a kilim teaches about grids
A weaver plans every row before the first knot. A layout grid is the same promise.
Serif type on screens
Screens got sharp enough for serifs years ago. Long reading deserves them back.
Culture
Quiet tools
The best tools say nothing until something is wrong, and then they say exactly what.
An autumn reading list
Five books about making things slowly and well, for the long evenings.
Notes from a slow morning
An hour before the first message, and what it does to the rest of the day.
From the editor
This issue is about making things slowly and well. A fast web takes slow thinking.
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