Looking for some inspiration inspiration? The following sites got you covered! SiteInspire.com has a lot of really good and art-sy looking websites with great typography. Webdesign Inspiration, as the name implies, also has a lot of websites listed. The focus here is not solely on the artistic side of things; it has also a lot...

Did you know that you can use simple CSS to flow text around a circular (or many other kinds of) shapes? shape-outside on css-tricks.com shape-outside on caniuse.com and, with some CSS magic and two elements, also within a circular (or any other kind of) shape?

I am really amazed how far CSS and the web platform as a whole have come in the last few years. When I started out, you still had to fight with IE and its quirks — and now, most things are just… easy. We got Flexbox, CSS Grid, Animations, CSS Variables, calc() and more; and thanks to auto-updating web browsers, it is now more a question of mont...

In the course of designing a business card and experimenting with different stuff while trying to achieve a natural look, I was really amazed by how well some web applications simulate the look-and-feel of actual, pyhsical paint. Here are some of my personal favorites: Fluid Paint by David Li. And if you need some other mesmerizing stuff t...

While working on this blog, and scratching my head about the build errors related to using a custom theme, this article helped me a lot: How to build and deploy GitHub Pages with custom gems by Andrew Freemantle Just note that – contrary to the linked article – replacing the ruby-version: 3.1 is neither necessary nor recommended anymore, b...

While designing a business card with Inkscape, I found the following tools which were very helpful: SVGOMG – SVGGO’s Missing GUI, which is a one-page web app based on the svgo SVG Optimizer Node.js package. That’s it for this week. See you next time!

While getting up to speed with the newest CSS features, I stumbled upon the following tools, which are listed here in no particular order, and with the knowledge there are probably even better tools for the same job out there. css.glass – Glassmorphism CSS Generator by @miketromba box-shadow.dev – CSS Box Shadows by twobeards.dev Animist...

Well, I’ve finally done it. It took a long time, but now it is here: A personal blog to write down random thoughts, discoveries and coding lessons that I stumble upon through my job or through random chance.