Tyler Sticka

Title slide from my presentation, featuring an illustration of three doofy-looking possums, one floating thanks to Eleventy’s trademark balloon. The title reads “Little Dummies: Simple FPO Content Helpers”

Here at @cloudfour.com, we do a lot of design and prototyping in the browser via @11ty.dev (or should I say #BuildAwesome??)

At the next free, virtual #Eleventy Meetup (March 12, 9am PDT), I’ll be sharing some of my favorite little helpers for quick and easy placeholder content: 11tymeetup.dev

Colorpeek shirts ship free now through the weekend if you use the code FREESHIPPINGFRIDAY

(I know it’s dorky to wear my own design, but I do anyway because I’m happy with how it came out)

cottonbureau.com/p/TXTXSF/shi...

How We Do Code Reviews at Cloud Four If your team members dread the notification that they’ve been added as a reviewer on a pull request, I think the following guidelines can help.

New post about how we do code review here at @cloudfour.com! If your team members dread the notification that they’ve been added as a reviewer on a pull request, I think the following guidelines can help. cloudfour.com/thinks/how-w...

Title slide from my presentation, featuring an illustration of three doofy-looking possums, one floating thanks to Eleventy’s trademark balloon. The title reads “Little Dummies: Simple FPO Content Helpers”

Here at @cloudfour.com, we do a lot of design and prototyping in the browser via @11ty.dev (or should I say #BuildAwesome??)

At the next free, virtual #Eleventy Meetup (March 12, 9am PDT), I’ll be sharing some of my favorite little helpers for quick and easy placeholder content: 11tymeetup.dev

Thanks so much! 😊

Now We’re Cooking – Tyler Sticka I’ve never been much of a foodie. Between being a picky eater as a kid and some gastro­intestinal issues as an adult, I’d describe my…

Finally learned to cook after decades of being useless in the kitchen 👨‍🍳 tylersticka.com/journal/now-...

Too early to say, but the examples I share will definitely be available in some form

Hi, Asia! 👋😊

Should be fun!!

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Hey folks, the next 11ty meetup will be on March 12 with @tylersticka.com helping us with rapid prototyping

11tymeetup.dev

#11ty

Lots of helpful tips in here! (I drew the feature image 😊)

#writing #blogging

The Keyboard I Never Wanted – Tyler Sticka Reluctantly learning a hobby because everything breaks too quickly.

On buying my first mechanical #keyboard out of anger: tylersticka.com/journal/the-...

This is a neat visual effect.

If you use it to replace a legend / fieldset (such as in a form) for even more novel styles, then make sure you give the wrapper an `aria-labelledby` pointing at the heading and a `role="group"`.

Faking a Fieldset-Legend Using CSS to make a heading overlay and clip the border of its own container.

I helped my pal @chriskirknielsen.com fake a fieldset-legend layout (where the “legend” overlays and clips a containing border).

My technique, plus a few alternatives: cloudfour.com/thinks/fakin...

#CSS #WebDev #WebDesign

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#TiledWords was nominated for the Playlin award for best daily short form web game!

If you like the game it would mean a lot to me if you took a second to vote for it!

playlin.io/awards/vote/

I’m in the home stretch of a nav redesign for a web app w/ 60+ unique features

The stakeholder just told me they are “very happy” with the outcomes, this was “money well spent” 🎉

If you could use that sort of #WebDesign #WebDev win, I’m always looking for my next project: tyler@cloudfour.com

26 Most Anticipated Indie Games Of 2026 What to look forward to this year.

Gosh I love #IndieGames theindieinformer.com/2026/01/06/2...

Them’s the Breaks - HTMHell A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

Thanks, Matthias!

Hyphenation does present some readability challenges, but I’m happy for options when it comes to more artistic/expressive experiences.

See also: www.htmhell.dev/adventcalend...

Justified Text: Better Than Expected? Do new CSS properties make justified text with automatic hyphenation more viable?

Having read cloudfour.com/thinks/justi... by @tylersticka.com et al., I learned about `hyphenate-limit-chars`, and in a nanosecond it jumped to the top of my list of #CSS properties that I’d like to see full support across browsers.

(Sure, it can be progressively enhanced, but still.)

My Favorite Games of 2025 – Tyler Sticka An illustrated list of the games I enjoyed playing most this year.

An illustrated recap of my favorite games of the year: tylersticka.com/journal/favo...

#VideoGames #IndieGames #FanArt

Them’s the Breaks - HTMHell A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

On day 15 @tylersticka.com shows us how to break the web‽

htmhell.dev/adventcalend...

Chris’ Corner: Cloud Four This is an appreciation post for the Cloud Four Blog. It’s one of those must-subscribes. I find myself adding almost every post they put out to my archive of posts to dig into. So since I&#82…

Well, this brightened my day: blog.codepen.io/2025/12/15/c...

Thank you for the kind words, @chriscoyier.net 🫶

Thanks so much, really happy to hear that!

Thanks, Paul!

I’m not sure why you would, but it was too odd a capability not to share

Them’s the Breaks - HTMHell A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

On day 15 of this year’s #HTMHellAdventCalendar, I “break” down (pun intended) an aspect of #HTML we often take for granted: Line breaks!

htmhell.dev/adventcalend...

#WebDesign #WebDev #CSS #Typography

That time Steve Silberman wrote me a nice email… – Tyler Sticka “I am a contributing editor of Wired magazine, and you are a genius.” 😳

I somehow missed the news of @stevesilberman.bsky.social’s passing last year. I hope he wouldn’t have minded me sharing this story… tylersticka.com/journal/that...

Artwork of the game’s three field researchers: Turbine (looking a bit downtrodden), Anemo (looking chipper) and Vane (looking confused)

Drew some fanart for Formless Star (splendidland.itch.io/formless-star) by @splendid.land, one of my favorite games of the year

#FanArt #IndieGame

Tiled Words A daily word puzzle with a twist

I contributed a clue to today’s #TiledWords puzzle 😊

tiledwords.com/puzzles/2025...

CSS Weekly Issue #629 Learn the new range syntax for CSS style queries and the if() function, the exciting new things you can do with subgrid, and more.

CSS Weekly #629
🏔️ Range Syntax for Style Queries
🎯 New layouts with CSS Subgrid
🧠 Intro to CSS if Statements

Featuring @una.im, @joshwcomeau.com, @sunkanmifafowora.bsky.social, @stefanjudis.com, @tylersticka.com, @amitsheen.bsky.social, @innocenzi.dev, @cbolson.bsky.social. 🙏

cssw.io/issue-629

Cartoony illustration: The protagonists of the mentioned games aren’t sure what to make of each other.

Over the weekend I played #ElecHead and #Öoo back to back. Öoo in particular was fantastic!

#FanArt #IndieGames

Simple One-Time Passcode Inputs Fully functional OTP entry may be easier than you think.

A common strategy for one-time-password fields is to use six separate inputs. This makes for a subpar user experience. Read this article by @tylersticka.com for a simpler approach, complete with working code examples.

cloudfour.com/thinks/simpl...