Erik Runyon is a web developer and writer behind WeedyGarden, sharing practical insights on modern CSS, HTML, web performance, and hands-on web projects through talks, experiments, and tutorials.
7 articles from this blog
Explores Safari's new CSS random() function, its current capabilities, limitations, and potential use cases for generating random values in styles.
A conference presentation overview of recent and upcoming HTML and CSS features for web developers, framed as a guide to surviving the expanding web platform.
A presentation summary covering recent and upcoming HTML and CSS web platform features like container queries, nesting, and subgrid.
A developer reflects on abandoning Twitter for Mastodon after losing Tweetbot, praising Ivory as a replacement and the growth of the Mastodon community.
A technical guide on connecting to the PassKit API using Ruby, demonstrating authentication and API calls with the `jwt` and `httparty` gems.
Philip Walton critiques the web performance community's over-reliance on synthetic metrics, arguing for more nuanced, real-world context in performance discussions.
A developer explains how fixing the Content-Type header from application/atom+xml to text/xml enabled XSLT styling for RSS/Atom feeds.
