CSS Variables in the Age of AI: Letting Models Design Your Themes
I stopped hand-tuning every color token and let AI generate theme palettes on top of CSS variables. The result: faster theming, fewer regressions, and weirder experiments.
Richard Lemon
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.
Build in Public with Less Friction: My Real-Time Dev Diary Using NoteVault
How I turned my messy real-time dev notes into a clean public build log using NoteVault and AI summarization, without adding extra overhead to my day.
AI-Optimized Asset Bundling: How I Cut Frontend Load Time in Half
I wired AI into my bundling pipeline to handle minification, dead-code hunting and asset grouping. It cut load time in half without a framework rewrite.
AI-Powered CSS Grid Layouts: My Actual Workflow, Not Hype
How I actually use AI to generate responsive CSS Grid layouts without turning my front-end into a black box. This is my real workflow, warts and all.
How To Tell If Your GEO Is Working: The Metrics That Actually Matter In 2026
Impressions are lying to you. Here’s how I actually measure GEO in 2026 using entity recognition, citation tracking, and AI answer monitoring that maps to revenue.
CSS Flexbox For Adaptive Fitness Dashboards That Don’t Suck On Mobile
How I use Flexbox to keep a workout dashboard readable when the data gets weird and the layout has to adapt on the fly. Practical patterns from a real fitness tracking UI.
Biohacking Neural Interfaces With Sovereign AI Control Loops
How I think about combining brain-computer interfaces with sovereign AI agents for tighter control, safer feedback loops, and real-world biohacking use. Less sci-fi, more wiring diagrams.
Using CSS Variables To Theme Biohacking Dashboards Without Losing Your Mind
How I use CSS variables to keep my HRV, sleep, and training dashboards visually consistent, even when the tools do everything in their power to look different.
Sovereign AI For My Smart Home Lab: Biohacking Without Giving Big Tech My Vitals
I wired my biohacking devices into a sovereign, self-hosted AI that lives on my network and actually runs my protocols. No cloud, no API key dependency, just a bossy local model running my day.
AI-Driven Biohacking: How I Predict My Stress Before It Hits
This is how I wired my wearables, calendar, and AI into a predictive stress system that warns me before I spiral instead of after it is too late.
Animating Sleep Cycle Data With CSS: Turning Rest Into Motion
I turned boring sleep tracking exports into an animated CSS timeline that makes light, deep and REM stages instantly readable. No chart library, just HTML, CSS, and some carefully timed motion.
Sovereign AI Governance For Biohacking: Where I Draw The Line
I use AI to help me modify my own biology, but I do not trust it with my safety by default. This is the governance stack I actually use to keep autonomy and ethics in tension.