January 2024

Happy New Year!

I hope you’ve all had a positive start to 2024.

It’s taken a few days to get back into the flow of things, so this one’s out a little later than I planned. I’ll try and hit publish on the 1st going forward.

Anyway, here’s what I got up to in December, a few things from around the web and what I have planned for the month ahead.

Highlights from December #

• Moved into our new house!
• Launched a new thing - cu.css – and published a a post introducing the project.
• Published my review of 2023.
• Read The Conspiracy Tourist by Dom Joly.
• Enjoyed the 2 Christmas parties – oh the joy of being freelance!
• Finished The Crown.
• Spent time with family and friends.

Elsewhere on the web #

• Getting started with Web Performance from Alistair Shepherd is a really great resource which includes a bunch of course, books and blogs for taking your knowledge further. As is Ten optimisation tips for an initial web performance audit also from Alistair.
• Preparing For Interaction To Next Paint, A New Web Core Vital from Geoff Graham. In March 2024, Interaction to Next Paint will formally replace First Input Delay as a Core Web Vital metric.
• You don’t need JavaScript for that from Kilian Valkhof.
• Things I learned in 2023 from Carl Barenbrug.
• Untools: Tools for better thinking. A collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems.
• CSS only “scroll-to-top” from Stefan Judis. A nifty trick to build a “scroll to top” component.

What I’m up to in January #

• Migrating buxtonthreetwo.com over to Hugo and Cloudcannon.
• Working on a bunch of cu.css post launch improvements
• Picking up where I left off with Practical Hugo.
• Working Mew app v2.0.4
• Writing about my OKR setup in Obsidian

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