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Richard Lemon

Richard Lemon

Maastricht
Richard Lemon is a Creative Web Experience Developer at Ideebv, Maastricht. He writes about frontend craft, AI workflows, and tools that make work feel less like work. Youth baseball coach, chronic self-optimizer, builder in public.
CSS
CSS clip-path Animations I Actually Use For Scroll Reveals
CSS

CSS clip-path Animations I Actually Use For Scroll Reveals →

How I use CSS clip-path for scroll reveals and hero transitions without ScrollMagic, GSAP, or a single animation library. Just CSS, a bit of IntersectionObserver, and some opinionated patterns.
AI
Make.com Error Handling Patterns That Actually Work
AI

Make.com Error Handling Patterns That Actually Work →

The worst Make.com scenarios are not the ones that crash. They are the ones that silently stop working. Here is how I design every scenario to make failure loud and obvious.
Build in Public
How AI Overviews Actually Work (And How I Get Content Cited)
Build in Public

How AI Overviews Actually Work (And How I Get Content Cited) →

AI Overviews are not magic. They are structured pattern-matching machines. Here is how I use entity consistency, FAQ schema, and llms.txt to get my content cited.
CSS
CSS Logical Properties: How I Replaced Left/Right Without Breaking Everything
CSS

CSS Logical Properties: How I Replaced Left/Right Without Breaking Everything →

I migrated a real client project from left/right CSS to logical properties without breaking layout or deadlines. This is what actually worked.
Biohacking
What 90 Days Of HRV Data Taught Me About Stress I Thought I Was Managing
Biohacking

What 90 Days Of HRV Data Taught Me About Stress I Thought I Was Managing →

I logged HRV every day for 90 days and realised my “I’m fine” story was mostly fiction. The data showed stress patterns I never would have blamed.
CSS
Using CSS Custom Properties As Design Tokens (Without A Design System)
CSS

Using CSS Custom Properties As Design Tokens (Without A Design System) →

How I use plain CSS custom properties as a design token system for real projects. Spacing, color, and motion tokens. No Figma. No toolchain. Just code.
AI
How I Built an llms.txt For My Clients (And Why It Beats Your Sitemap)
AI

How I Built an llms.txt For My Clients (And Why It Beats Your Sitemap) →

I stopped obsessing over sitemaps and started shipping llms.txt files instead. Here is how I built them for real clients and what actually matters for LLMs.
Build in Public
Speed vs Correctness: What Youth Baseball Umpiring Taught Me About Production Deploys
Build in Public

Speed vs Correctness: What Youth Baseball Umpiring Taught Me About Production Deploys →

Umpiring youth baseball taught me more about production deploys than any DevOps book. Both are about making fast, irreversible calls with incomplete data and living with them.
Frontend
How I Evaluate a New Dev Tool (My 3‑Question Filter)
Frontend

How I Evaluate a New Dev Tool (My 3‑Question Filter) →

I run every new dev tool through the same 3‑question filter before it touches my real workflow. Here is how Cursor, Tower, and SecondsPro managed to earn their place.
Productivity
Why I Still Plan My Week On Paper In 2026
Productivity

Why I Still Plan My Week On Paper In 2026 →

I have tried every productivity stack you see on Twitter, but one thing never moved: a weekly paper planning note. Here is what it does that no app can touch.
Featured
Build in Public
20 Years of richardlemon.com – A Website Grows Up
Build in Public
Featured

20 Years of richardlemon.com – A Website Grows Up →

What the Wayback Machine remembers about you – and what it says about where you're going.
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now

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Refactoring my blog's tag architecture via the Ghost API, debugging broken automations, and going down a rabbit hole