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How I test my Svelte projects

For years I barely wrote tests. I explain why I changed my mind and how I split the work between Vitest and Playwright.

Why I switched to Svelte 5 and runes

A month after launch, I explain why runes won me over faster than I expected.

Web accessibility, the basics that cost nothing to apply

You don't need a full audit to improve a lot. Here's the minimum I always review, and what made me take it seriously.

Native CSS nesting, goodbye to Sass

With nesting now natively supported in every modern browser, I've stopped installing Sass on new projects.

What I changed to improve my Core Web Vitals

Three concrete changes, no frills, that had the biggest impact on LCP, CLS and INP across the projects I maintain.

How a PWA's offline mode works under the hood

A while back I talked about what a PWA is. Now I dig into the detail of what makes it keep working without a connection.

My first data visualisation with D3.js

A client wanted a chart "that didn't look like the typical one from a template library." That's how I ended up deep in D3 and hand-drawn SVG.

Container queries, the CSS feature I was begging for

With support now in every modern browser, container queries solve a problem I'd spent years papering over with hacks.

SvelteKit with adapter-static, my workflow for backend-free sites

No Node server in production and no database of its own. Here's how I build fully static sites with SvelteKit.