Writing

1. Performance Update #4: So much to do, so much to see

   A recap of the performance work my team at Vox has done in the past year.

2. Intrinsic ratio elements with a max height

   A little CSS technique I wrote for making elements with a fixed ratio that can also be constrained to a maximum height.

3. Responsive Web Design Podcast Episode 92: Vox Media Performance

   My coworker Dan Chilton and I spoke to Ethan Marcotte and Karen McGrane about how we helped build a culture of performance at Vox Media.

4. Building iOS-like transparency effects with CSS

   Here’s how you can use the new -webkit-backdrop-filter property, which just landed on the WebKit Nightly, to build cool iOS-like transparency effects with CSS.

5. Take a peek at the code that powered The Verge 50

   We’ve made the source code to The Verge 50 public so people can hopefully learn from it and use it to tell their own stories.

6. Verge Favorites: Guillermo Esteves

   A few of my favorite things, on The Verge.

7. Bigger, faster, leaner: The Verge 1.8 brings many improvements to its front page

   A quick summary of the improvements we made to The Verge with the release of version 1.8.