Links: Favorite articles of 2024

January 4, 2025

Ones that stand out the most

Most of these stood out because of my life situation this year.

• The quiet, pervasive devaluation of frontend (Josh Collinsworth)
• Invisible Contexts (Andrew Walpole)
• The perfect site doesn’t exist (Michelle Barker)
• How to Dehumanize Accessibility with AI (Ashlee M Boyer)
• What is “the grain of the web?” (Chris Ferdinandi)
• Craft vs Industry: Separating Concerns (Thomas M. Semmler)
• Web dev craftsmanship (Chris Ferdinandi)
• Front-end development’s identity crisis (Elly Loel)
• The ongoing defence of frontend as a full-time job (Christian Heilmann)
• On craft and the web (Chris Ferdinandi)
• The heroes we don’t deserve: Those who work on web standards (James’ Coffee Blog)

Standout Guides from Ahmad Shadeed

I will probably list more if I had read them this year. I still have several queued up in Pocket.

• CSS :has() Interactive Guide
• An Interactive Guide to CSS Container Queries

Everything else

Chronological order (for the most part)

• The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again (Rolling Stone)
• A Subtle Nicety of Fault Tolerance in HTML & CSS (Jim Nielsen)
• Fine, I’ll Use a Super Basic CSS Processing Setup. (Frontend Masters)
• How to Start the Year Strong: An Actionable Plan (Caleb Davis on For The Church)
• My Unraveling (Tom Scocca on New York Magazine)
• Under the radar CSS features for your CSS reset (Kevin Powell on YouTube)
• Top Front-End Tools Of 2023 (Louis Lazaris on Smashing Magazine)
• Stop Looking For Friends, And Start Making Them (Seth Lewis)
• The Perfect Theme Switch Component (Aleksandr Hovhannisyan) – I used this on my site redesign.
• A Call for Consensus on HTML Semantics (Stephanie Eckels)
• Whose risks? Whose benefits? (Mandy Brown)
• When to use the min() or max() function (Temani Afif)
• God Doesn’t Owe Me Kindness (Andy Stearns)
• 100 things you can do on your personal website (James’ Coffee Blog)
• Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule (Paul Graham)
• What Would Happen If We Prayed Before We Spent Money? (Randy Alcorn)
• Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter (Tim Berners-Lee)
• You don’t have to be a “content creator” to have a website. (Ana Rodrigues)
• Obligatory Reaction to My Old CSS-Tricks Job Re-Opening (Geoff Graham)
• What the world needs (Jeremy Keith)
• Closing time (Rachel Andrew)
• Reflecting Christ in the Crucible of Your Marriage (Rebekah Matt)
• We Need To Rewild The Internet (Maria Farrell)
• How do you accidentally run for President of Iceland? (UX Collective)
• Big Boxes (Jonathan Snook)
• Become an accessibility champion! (Nicolas Steenhout) – Nic helped me to understand that I don’t have to be an accessibility expert to make a difference on my team in regards to accessibility. I heard him talk on Shop Talk Show several years ago. I enjoyed hearing his thoughts in this video.
• A modern approach to browser support (Richard Rutter)
• Opinions for Writing Good CSS (Andrew Walpole)
• It’s about time I tried to explain what progressive enhancement actually is (Andy Bell)
• Trusting God in the Uncertainties of Life (Tim Challies)
• Thou Shalt Not Catastrophize (Glenna Marshall)
• Building Well-Connected Distributed Teams (Viget)
• The Undeniable Utility Of CSS :has (Josh Comeau)
• What If He’s Faithful? (Glenna Marshall)
• Hire HTML and CSS People (Robin Rendle)
• Stretching Joy: 10 Ways to Notice God’s Everyday Mercies (CCEF)
• How Much Grace? Always More (Stephen McAlpine)
• Stop Playing the Numbers Game (Brad Little John)
• How to Set Your Domain as Your Bluesky Handle (Matthias Ott) – This is how I set mine up.
• Futureproof Forgiveness (Stephen McAlpine)
• Modesty Requires Looking Away (Tim Challies)
• My New Motto: “Go Scared” (Stephen McAlpine)