A couple of weeks ago I was randomly checking the performance of a CSS Transition here on my blog. I was expecting to see a butter smooth animation but ended up surprised 😲. The transition was triggering repaint on pretty much the whole page every time it ran.

Debugging layout repaint issues triggered by CSS Transition

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The Fantasy of Opting Out

If you didn’t gather off the bat from the title, the problem with developing front end projects isn’t that it’s harder or more complicated, it’s that *you* made it harder and more complicated. You have the power of choice, so choose what you want to do - because the choices are overwhelming and ther…

The web didn’t change; you did

Micro-frontends is a relatively new architectural style for building web-based applications, which as the name suggests, is an extension of the popular microservices pattern. In this blog post I argue that this is a pattern you might not need!

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