The Curious Engineer

All blogs / Frontend / CSS / browsers

Nicole Sullivan

stubbornella.org

Frontend / CSS / browsersPerformance / optimization

’05’10’15’20’25
Posts
159 from 1 Jul 2002 to 30 Mar 2025
Posting
now and then
Kind
personal blog
Feed
https://www.stubbornella.org/feed/

2025 1

  1. IFSC Competition Regulations Para Climbing Events

2023 5

  1. Twitter polls for developer sentiment
  2. What are developers thinking?
  3. Expanding your touch targets
  4. Reactathon fireside chat
  5. Searchable browser code

2014 5

  1. Web Components Panel at EdgeConf
  2. Horn Ok Please
  3. Style Guide Driven Development
  4. Why are you here?
  5. The magical command line

2013 8

  1. Rails is mucking up my CSS – Already!
  2. Error messages are my friends, pair programming buddies are my best friends
  3. Big News – I’m learning Ruby
  4. Re-visiting the secret power of block fomatting context
  5. Easy-peasy Rem Conversion with Sass
  6. Creating Living Style Guides to Improve Performance
  7. Why I run my business like an open source project
  8. CSSConf – The selection process

2012 3

  1. Don’t Feed the Trolls!
  2. Cross-Browser Debugging CSS
  3. Code formatting for CSS Gradients

2011 8

  1. Scope donuts
  2. Don’t Style Headings Using HTML5 Sections
  3. CSS Lint open sourced
  4. Welcoming Nicholas Zakas to the Team
  5. Our (CSS) Best Practices Are Killing US
  6. Automating CSS 3 Gradients
  7. Performance Double Whammy Hits New Zealand at Webstock
  8. Grids improve site performance

2010 12

  1. The hacktastic zoom fix
  2. Congratulations Justin & Kelly
  3. Woman in technology
  4. Birthday Blender & Poached Eggs
  5. Being Shy and Being Myself
  6. Multitasking is killing me (and probably you too)
  7. Guest on The Big Web Show
  8. Top 5 Mistakes of Massive CSS
  9. The media object saves hundreds of lines of code
  10. CSS Variables Specification
  11. How to create CSS objects? Get the granularity right!
  12. Visual Semantics in HTML and CSS

2009 12

  1. CSS Wish List
  2. Bread
  3. HTML5, who is bad enough to take on canvas?
  4. Overflow – a secret benefit
  5. A loving Indian family
  6. CSS Summit – test cases for browser bugs
  7. The Year of Business Metrics – Don’t make your users run away!
  8. Smush.it finds a home at Yahoo!
  9. Reflows & Repaints: CSS Performance making your JavaScript slow?
  10. Object Oriented CSS video on YDN
  11. Object Oriented CSS, Grids on Github
  12. CSS doesn’t suck, you’re just doing it wrong.

2008 23

  1. Design Fast Websites – Don’t blame the rounded corners! on YUI Theater
  2. ParisWeb Performance Web Videos et slides disponible
  3. Prop 8: the musical!
  4. New tool: Easy image optimization with Smush it
  5. Optimisation des Images : Les 7 erreurs à éviter at ParisWeb
  6. So you wanna be a web dev?
  7. The two devils — how the right will beat Obama
  8. Vote for me at SXSW! – performance panel
  9. iPhone, the morning after
  10. YUI 3 Sneak Peek
  11. I love glue.
  12. Website Performance Bootcamps in Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore
  13. F2Es, Take the survey!
  14. Cake for breakfast
  15. Video, Yahoo!s latest performance breakthroughs, or — I’m famous!
  16. Technical Women Speakers on geekspeakr.com
  17. Immigrant meta-culture
  18. Yahoo!’s Latest Performance Breakthroughs
  19. Site most likely to tattoo
  20. My Living Room, Another Color Tool
  21. Another paradigm: Visual, Auditory, Kinaesthetic
  22. Learning: theoretic, reflective, pragmatic, or active?
  23. Candidates graded on technical savvy, site performance

2007 21

  1. I’ve found the North Pole. J’ai trouvé le pole nord.
  2. High Performance Ajax Applications
  3. CSS 3 and where we shouldn’t be
  4. Semantics for Debutants
  5. Yahoo! Developer Day Conference
  6. Stubbornella joins the exceptional performance team at Yahoo!
  7. Surrendering to facebook leads to groundbreaking discovery: Noad
  8. I finally tried a Segway!
  9. Améliore la vitesse de vos sites web avec le YSlow extension pour Firefox.
  10. Improve download speed with YSlow Firefox extension
  11. Clearing floats and printing with Firefox.
  12. Victor Tsaran presents screen readers
  13. Battling the healthcare insanity.
  14. « Oui, ca fume à Paris »
  15. Parisian “responsable”
  16. Hugo & I have moved to California
  17. Why are women not on the A-list?
  18. Pourquoi des sites au design accessible ?
  19. L’accessibilité pour les rédacteurs : les manuels de logiciels
  20. Why I love my husband…
  21. YUI announces free hosting at their birthday party

2006 7

  1. Search Engine Optimisation
  2. Why I love my husband.
  3. How could I have forgotten…
  4. Free to Be You And Me
  5. Arthur’s Theme
  6. Rollerskating at church camp
  7. 80s Music

2005 32

  1. Salsa at L’Atelier
  2. El Diab’litho Latino
  3. France versus Chypre
  4. Mint: A Fresh Look at Your Site
  5. A List Apart
  6. Discovering Your Tail
  7. Unobtrusive Flash Objects (UFO) v1.0
  8. More Salsa
  9. Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong
  10. Phew
  11. Upgrade
  12. Night Swimming
  13. Le Moving
  14. La Coupole
  15. Extroverted !?!
  16. La Pachanga
  17. L’Atelier – Noissy Le Grand
  18. BBC Sex I.D. test
  19. Why don’t you challenge the trimming?
  20. Down and Out in Paris and London
  21. Dance, Monkeys, Dance
  22. “Non” a la Constitution European
  23. Eric, Hugo, and I arrived in Kyoto
  24. WWW2005 – shameful name dropping
  25. Malkovich Malkovich?
  26. Le Promeneur du Champ de Mars
  27. Happy Birthday
  28. A Painting A Day
  29. Why I Love My Husband
  30. The Gates (Part II)
  31. The Gates
  32. Madhat Kakei

2004 14

  1. One mullet, two mullets, three mullets, four.
  2. Morgan and the Expanding Container Element
  3. WYSIWYG Editor Accessibility Test Results:
  4. Why design accessible web sites?
  5. Accessibility for Writers: Software Manuals
  6. Web Design Resources
  7. Eventually I’ll stop writing about it.
  8. Happy 38th Birthday EricP!
  9. Paris Saint Germain Vs. l’Olympique de Marseille
  10. Wronged.
  11. Bed Bugs
  12. the namesake
  13. HTML Lite
  14. Oscar Wilde Quote

2003 6

  1. Granite Pastry Island
  2. Henri Cartier-Bresson
  3. Fête de la Musique
  4. Frida Kahlo
  5. Today I got up early
  6. Feminist

2002 2

  1. Oil & Pastel on Canvas
  2. Paint and then paris