• The “Just In Time” Theory of User Behavior

    I’ve long believed that the design of your software has a profound impact on how users behave within your software. But there are two sides to this story: * Encouraging the “right” things by making those things intentionally easy to do. * Discouraging the “wrong” things by making those things intentionally difficult,

  • My Journey Away from the JAMstack

    The name is all but dead, nerfed by the company who invented it. Here’s why Netlify was ahead of its time and where everything went wrong.

  • The Three Virtues – avdi.codes

    So somewhere along the line this blog lost it’s tagline, making the title somewhat obscure. No, I didn’t name the blog “Virtuous Code” because I believe I’m a paragon. It’s a reference to a quote by Larry Wall in the the famous “Camel Book”: “We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of

  • Configuring development mode in 6.3

    WordPress 6.3 introduces a new concept called “development mode”, which affects certain nuances in how WordPress behaves. Going forward, sites will be able to configure their development mode using…

  • Lightning CSS

    An extremely fast CSS parser, transformer, bundler, and minifier.