DEV Community: bdn

Returning to OSS development?

bdn — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 05:17:05 +0000

Hello!

A few years back, I created a CSS framework, new.css. The project quickly took off, reaching the #1 spot of the day on Hacker News. This brought a lot of eyeballs and attention, which I am incredibly grateful for! However, stress in my life and anxiety around Internet communication and collaboration made me fall out of touch with the project, and this disconnect has led to some depressing burnout.

I would very much like to integrate back into the open source development community and start regularly updating my own projects, along with contributing to the work of others.

Others who have found themselves in similar situations, how have you handled this? Do you have any recommendations for working through personal project burnout, or returning to a community after a good amount of time has passed?

Thanks, everyone! ^‿^

6 years...

bdn — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 04:54:49 +0000

new.css - modern websites with only HTML

bdn — Sun, 17 May 2020 02:40:29 +0000

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new.css is a classless CSS framework to write modern websites using only HTML. It weighs ~4.5kb.

I make a lot of websites. It's a common sight, while making a super simple website, to find myself writing the same CSS over and over just to clean up ugly 90's styling.

In these situations, it would be a waste to import a giant framework like Bootstrap when I'm going to use precisely 3 components. I made new.css to fill this void, and to start creating websites differently.

The web was made for semantic HTML—let's start using it. You can import new.css into your body's <head> using one line.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://newcss.net/new.min.css">

Here's how that site looks now.

It's not going to make you a fancy carousel. It's not going to give you 12 different column elements. All it does is turn basic HTML into something that the Smithsonian isn't going to request for their History of Computing exhibit.

There's a demo on newcss.net and it's fully open-source on github.com/xz/new.css.

Let me know what you think. If you have any comments, questions, please let me know!

What's the best way to host small websites for free?

bdn — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 19:12:35 +0000

Hello dev community! 👋

I'm working on a fun project where I'll need to host a few .html files and a good number of SVG images. I've been researching GitHub Pages and that seems like a good idea for relatively small sites, but I wasn't sure if that's the best way to go if I have ~1.5mB of SVGs to go along with it.

I'd be very grateful for any ideas or suggestions. Thank you!