Kinds of blue: Design tokens for contrast and accessibility
I woke up today and decided to change the header colour from crimson to blue. Let's talk about design tokens, contrast and accessibility.
Main Quest
Posts about building and maintaining this site.
Pay it forward: Fork this blog template and make it yours
The code behind this site is now a template you can clone and deploy for yourself. A sneaky peek at the journey from a public repo to a forkable template.
Maintaining an llms.txt that nobody's reading
This site had an llms.txt that went stale in just over a week. Easy enough to fix, but what's the point of maintaining them if they're not being read?
Structuring content like a trail of breadcrumbs
A deep dive into pagination, breadcrumbs, category and author pages, and sitemap maintenance. All this, and content modelling too!
Meandering off the path, shipping minor upgrades
A quick roundup of four reading-experience improvements, shipped while clearing the decks for more ambitious changes. The scope got creeped, but what are ya gonna do?