David Bushell

https://dbushell.com/blog

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  1. CSS subgrid is super good

    I’m all aboard the CSS subgrid train. Now I’m seeing subgrid everywhere. Seriously, what was I doing before subgrid? I feel like I was bashing rocks together. Consider the follower HTML: The content could be simple headings and paragraphs. […]

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  2. I quit. The clankers won.

    … is what I’m reading far too often! Some of you are losing faith! A growing sentiment amongst my peers — those who haven’t already resigned to an NPC career path† — is that blogging is over. Coding is cooked. What’s the point of sharing insights and expertise when the Cognitive Dark Forest will […]

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  3. Top ten Figma betrayals

    Figma is the industry standard for painting pretty pictures of websites. It’s where designers spend my designated dev time pushing pixels around one too many artboards. Figma promises to remove the proverbial fence between design and development. […]

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  4. RSS Club #006: Burnout

    This is an RSS-only post, which I like to do sporadically! Thank you for subscribing :) Today’s question Am I burning out? Let me know what you think, internet doctors. I work a four day week and I have done so for many years. Fridays are mine to have fun. […]

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  5. I should build a game

    I should build a game! I feel like that’s a common dream, right? Game development is what got me interested in design and programming to begin with. I learnt ECMAScript via Flash ActionScript many moons ago. Some time later “Thoughts on Flash” brought a swift demise and ruined legacy to Flash. […]

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  6. 404 Deno CEO not found

    I visited deno.com yesterday. I wanted to know if the hundreds of hours I’d spent mastering Deno was a sunk cost. Do I continue building for the runtime, or go back to Node? Well I guess that pretty much sums up why a good chunk of Deno employees left the company over the last week. […]

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  7. SMTP on the edge

    Disclaimer: this post includes my worst idea yet! Until now my contact form submissions were posted to a Cloudflare worker. The worker encrypted the details with PGP encryption. It then used the Amazon AWS “Simple Email Service” API to send an email to myself. […]

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