Piccalilli
Andy Bell — Front-end developer, educator, founder of Set Studio
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An independent front-end education publication running since 2018, founded by Andy Bell and powered by a roster of working practitioners. Piccalilli publishes deep, practical guides on CSS, accessibility, JavaScript, and design — the kind that walk you through real code and trust you to handle the details. The voice varies by contributor but the standard doesn't: expect thorough, opinionated writing that makes complex browser APIs and career decisions feel equally approachable.
Written by Andy Bell since 2018.
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The Index: Issue #190
Code TV: The best landing page ever We very rarely share video content, but this episode was an absolute delight to watch. They're running a hackathon too which is well worth checking out. New Game+ Mat has not given up and nor should you! Kyroh font Dan Cederholm has brought out yet another affordable, and very nice font. Time-based background colour transitions with Temporal and CSS color-mix There's been so much dry content about Temporal so far but Sophie Koonin has written about a nice crea...
Proxy and Reflect
FYI I'm Mat, author of Piccalilli's very own [JavaScript for Everyone](https://piccalil.li/javascript-for-everyone), a course designed to help you make the jump from junior- to senior developer. As ever, I'm here to teach you JavaScript — not just the _what_, but the _how_ and the _why_ of JavaScript. In this specific instance, I'm here to teach you about using the Proxy constructor and Reflect object. These are features of the language worth having in your toolbox, naturally — but just as impor...
The Index: Issue #189
Fixing full-bleed CSS A rather deep dive into how some of the newer CSS can make this age old pattern even better. Where’s the holistic AI productivity data? It’s hard to find anything other than anecdata from individuals telling us how AI has made them individually more productive. If AI really was creating measurable improvements in productivity across entire organisations, wouldn’t we be seeing that data? [nods] The Goldilocks customizable select height Even the new custom <select> ca...
Personal website redesign project post: Rendering AT protocol posts on my /feed
I'm again, going to be doing a lot of the same sort of work I did for the WordPress integration, but as this is the first iteration of the AT protocol, it's going to be a lot simpler than that. Just like with the WordPress integration, I used Astro's pagination capabilities to build a paginated "feed" of posts, to satisfy the "Basic rendering of my AT protocol posts" part of the core features I outlined at the beginning of this series. Let's get stuck into that bit first. I created a pages/feed...
Personal website redesign project post: Loading AT protocol posts data
We're picking up some good momentum, so let's keep the flow going. After integrating WordPress to power the blog section, it's now time to integrate a new feature of this website: AT Protocol posts. I could go all in at this point and integrate posts, comments, interactions and comments on blog posts, but I'm not in the business of doing that until I fully understand what I'm doing. Throwing code at the wall to see what sticks is a one way high speed train to technical debt city. If there ever i...
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