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CSS has grown up. Container queries, cascade layers, logical properties, and scroll-driven animations are changing how we write styles.

An introduction to what I write about — software engineering, systems thinking, and the craft of building things that last.

Some patterns in JavaScript stay readable and maintainable as a codebase grows. These are the ones I return to.

Do one thing well. Compose. Write programs that talk to other programs. These ideas are 50 years old and still explain the best software being built today.

How programs use memory, what the stack and heap actually are, why they behave differently, and what this means for the code you write every day.