Rachel Andrew – Doing stuff on the web since 1996.

I concluded my 2024 review post by saying that I hoped to make the move back to the North of England in 2025. The event that defined 2025 (other than my 50th birthday!) is that I managed to do just that, and I’m writing this post from a little town in...

I’ve been an amateur genealogist since I was a teenager. I started before the internet existed. This was a world where finding a single fact about a not-too-distant ancestor could involve an entire day of hauling huge indexes off shelves, then waiting...

I’m really excited that the reading-flow and reading-order properties are in Chrome 137 (current beta, will be Chrome stable as of May 27, 2025).
Finding a way to deal with the visual and source order disconnect created by grid and flex layout has been something I’ve kept returning to ever since grid shipped in browsers. It turned out to be far more complex than the proposal I made in 2022, but...

Ever since I became an editor of the Multiple-column layout specification I’ve wanted to add the ability to let overflow columns wrap in the block direction, rather than extend out in the inline direction—creating the sort of horizontal scrollbar that...