Ghost-wrangling
My Flow utility class was applying margins around invisible elements like <style> and <script> tags, throwing off the vertical rhythm around them. Here's what I did to fix it, and why I also swapped em for lh while I was in there.
Chris Burnell
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Fresh pixels
Status updates and enforcing the crispiest-possible 88x31 badges across the web
New Year, New Server 2: Electric Boogaloo
I got to really put my recently-practised and newly-learned system administrator skills to the test again, mere months after my my last update about migrating the server that hosts my websites. Why’s that, you ask? Because the server host that I switched to has been a major disappointment.
Unusual Rotations (March 2026): Baroque
Reflecting on February and looking ahead to March’s genre(s), Baroque.
Unusual Rotations (February 2026): Vaporwave
Reflecting on listening to Grunge throughout January and planning February’s genre, Vaporwave.
RSVP to State of the Browser 2026
Only one month until State of the Browser, and I will once again be organising, but this year I’ll be there in-person! 🥳 Sadly, I’ve had to do what I can rather remotely since 2023, so I’m really looking forward...
EchoFeed Buttons
EchoFeed is an incredible web service by my pal, Robb Knight, that periodically checks your RSS feeds and can echo them out to various social media websites, and can even send Webmentions on your behalf! I proudly use EchoFeed on...
Unusual Rotations (January 2026): Grunge
I've come up with a fun, new project to work on over the course of this year, and maybe you’ll join me!
New Year, New Server
Over the last two weeks, I’ve been toiling away on the ugly underside of this website: the server. It powers and hosts all the data for this and my many other websites, and I thought as we say goodbye to 2025 and welcome in 2026, I’d reminisce on the history of my website.
Color Scheming
It’s been about a year and a half since I changed how colour schemes (i.e., light and dark themes) work on my website, and after reviewing and refactoring things again recently, I thought I would share how everything ties together and allows for different levels of control over colour schemes.