The CSS Specificity Bug That Wasted 3 Hours And Needed 1 Line
A real CSS specificity war story from a client project: three hours of confusion, one stubborn layout bug, and a single-line fix that solved it.
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.
Why I Rebuilt My Portfolio Navigation From Scratch (Twice)
I thought my portfolio nav was smart. Then I used it on an actual phone. This is what broke, what I rebuilt, and what I will never ship again without testing.
How I Turned a Mac Studio Into a Frontend CI Workhorse
I wired a Mac Studio into my CI pipeline and stopped waiting forever on frontend builds. Here is the exact setup, what broke, and what actually got faster.
Whoop + AI: How I Predict My Recovery Windows Before I Burn Out
I wired my Whoop data into an AI pipeline that predicts my recovery windows before I feel tired. It changed how I schedule training, deep work, and rest.
Ethics Of AI In Frontend: Who Owns Your UI Components?
I have AI generate UI components almost every day now, but I do not trust any of them by default. This is how I think about responsibility and ethics when that code hits production.
Building A Personal Longevity Dashboard With bypass-longevity
How I wired the bypass-longevity AI lifespan predictor into my personal health dashboard, what I actually track, and how I keep it privacy-first and useful.
Biohacking With Whoop Data And AI: How I Actually Fixed My Circadian Rhythm
I stopped chasing Whoop recovery scores and started using AI to interrogate my sleep data. That is when my circadian rhythm finally started to make sense.
Productivity Hacking With AI: How I Let a Model Reorder My To‑Do List
I stopped manually grooming my to-do list and let a model reorder it using my own data. Here is how that actually works day to day, and what broke.
Mac Studio As My Daily AI Workhorse (And How I Actually Use The GPU)
How I use a Mac Studio as a daily AI development box, where Apple Silicon shines for AI workloads, and how to avoid the usual GPU bottlenecks.
Whoop Data Meets AI: Forecasting My Best Training Days
I used Whoop data plus a simple AI workflow to predict when I am most likely to hit great training sessions. The model is rough, opinionated, and already beating my gut feeling.
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.
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.