#frontend

Two majors in one afternoon, driven by a security advisory. Exactly one failure stopped the build. The other four shipped green and had to be found by looking.

I rebuilt this site with a zero-JavaScript budget, wrote the targets down, and then broke all four of them in the same redesign. What the numbers actually said.

Wireframes are not early design, they are a cheap way to have the expensive argument. What they are for, what fidelity costs you, and why I stopped drawing them in anything that could render a gradient.

A small Smarty output filter I wrote that indents the HTML your PHP templates produce, and how Smarty's extension points work.

The most useful references I found while researching web and social-media UI patterns for a pattern toolkit.

Serving Google Analytics' JavaScript from your own domain with a local cache, so a third-party request stops holding up page load.

Clases CSS para rotar imágenes y cualquier elemento HTML en pasos de 90 grados, incluido cómo fijar el origen de la rotación.

Qué son los microformatos y por qué la web semántica era el siguiente paso después de que la 2.0 acercase las aplicaciones al escritorio.