Daniel Franklin

I am a front-end web developer with interests in accessibility, branding and content strategy. I write about web development and other things in my spare time.

Blog posts I have written

• Broken CSS variables inside pseudo-classes in Safari

  Published on 26 October 2020

• Tools for checking a website for broken links

  Published on 30 September 2020

• Quick and easy backups on Windows 10 with rsync

  Published on 30 May 2020

• Understanding document outline in HTML

  Published on 16 November 2019

• Host a static website with Amazon Web Services

  Published on 20 September 2019

• Install Lisp on macOS and Linux

  Published on 9 September 2019

• Manually set a cookie in Internet Explorer 11

  Published on 1 August 2019

• Creating, editing and using macros in Vim

  Published on 7 July 2019

• Run Linux on Windows 10 with VirtualBox

  Published on 26 June 2019

• Parse HTML in JavaScript with DOMParser

  Published on 3 May 2019

• An introduction to screen readers

  Published on 28 October 2018

• Creating printer-friendly websites

  Published on 11 August 2018

• Extending a shared Vim configuration

  Published on 11 August 2018

• Configuring Ale to use project-specific tools in Vim

  Published on 29 July 2018

• Cleaning a local Git repository

  Published on 4 March 2018

• Removing things from a Git repository

  Published on 4 March 2018

• Vim 8 package management

  Published on 26 December 2017

• Spell checking in Vim

  Published on 23 December 2017

• Git patches

  Published on 12 September 2017

• Display an ordered list of Git tags

  Published on 3 March 2017

• Three mildly interesting things about JavaScript functions

  Published on 9 May 2016

• Detecting JavaScript data types

  Published on 2 May 2016

• An introduction to ARIA attributes

  Published on 26 April 2016

• Favicon requirements

  Published on 7 March 2016

• Changing the browser header colour

  Published on 22 February 2016

• Use an npm module’s CLI without a global install

  Published on 28 November 2015

• Hyperlink style methods

  Published on 14 October 2015

• Learning Node.js with NodeSchool

  Published on 27 September 2015

• Linear gradients with SVG in JavaScript

  Published on 15 May 2015

• Quick SSH setup guide

  Published on 3 May 2015

• Visited background images don't work

  Published on 28 March 2015

• Styling with HTML attributes

  Published on 16 March 2015

I also have a CodePen where I make interactive explainers and fun web projects.