Web designer + front-end developer with experience in high-traffic ecommerce sites for some well known brands.

Year Review 2024

Another year of web work and projects. Let’s review my progress.

PFD

Not so much work here on PFD this year, just finessing.

  • CSS slimming via CSS nesting, light-dark() colours and a print stylesheet replacing a media query.
  • HTML Memory Test was posted to HackerNews (homepage), then featured on the CodePen homepage and soon passed a Hundred Thousand HTML Tests!
  • See what my first portfolio looked like - I added a screenshot to my Early Days post.

Side Projects

I’ve been working to finish these projects and cut down some maintenance burden. I should really stop adding features.

  • Elitricity apps’ background colour changes to the current carbon intensity level (green, amber, red). To improve the app loading experience I added data loading placeholders and static routing API.
  • Brush Swap app tweaks to CSS variables, light-dark() colours and @starting-style dialog animation. Plus persistent storage to keep your data safe.
  • Colordinates app use of background colour needed forced-colours accessibility fixes.
  • Opting out of AI on every service was a continual side project…

Well done for avoiding the AI slop to get here. Thanks for reading!

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Year Review 2024’ published by Paul Foster (www.paulfosterdesign.co.uk), a web designer / front-end developer, based in Cambridgeshire, UK.

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