Jamstack store post, woes of CSS, and IE trolling

Serverless Ecommerce Store content - now all in one place!

Matthew Ling and I did a series of livestreams where we build out a digital download shop using Eleventy, Stripe, Netlify, and more. First it was a meetup talk, then the livestreams, then 3 companion articles. Now you can finally find them all in one place in my new blog post!

Check it out: Building a Serverless E-commerce Store with Stripe, Netlify, & 11ty

The Woes of CSS

I found an interesting z-index in the wild and a lot of people found it funny:

It was funny because it was so relatable. The planets must have been aligned because the day before I found it, I attended the CSS Cafe meetup where Josh Comeau gave this excellent talk on the hidden/secret fundamentals of CSS which covered this exact issue. He used some great analogies for this and other CSS concepts that will finally stick with me. I hope. 🤞

Trolling IE still gets engagement

And it’s probably time to consider that making your site more accessible could lead to more conversions than making it compatible with IE.

Other great stuff

• Cassidy shared a weird neat trick on Twitter to see a calendar in your terminal with the cal command, and to see the full year you can do cal 2022
• New developments in Core Web Vitals from Google I/O - thread by Phil Walton
• Making the world’s fastest website, and other mistakes is an entertaining read about the realness of trying to make a website faster. I particularly liked the second post in the series about streaming HTML and look forward to more from Taylor Hunt.
• My favorite new Twitter account to follow is cats being weird little guys

That’s all for now! I hope to get back on making new content soon so stay tuned!