James Nash in a nutshell
Hi there! My name is James Nash and this is my personal website. I'm a design system nerd, classically trained webmaster and occasional fashion terrorist. In my spare time, I'm also one of the editors of the Design Tokens Community Group (DTCG) format specification.
This site primarily a place for me to share things I have made, am involved in or just find interesting with the world. Who knows, perhaps it will also let long lost acquaintances find me and get in touch.
A little about me
- I like drawing, doing graphics on the computer and just generally making stuff that looks nice (amazingly, some people seem to think I'm good at it too! I'll let you judge for yourself though).
- I like gadgets and gizmos, in particular mobile phones (it's like having all the other gadgets combined into one!).
- I consider myself a bit of geek (when I'm not playing with phones, I'm often found mucking about on the computer).
So there you go, that's me. I hope you enjoy the blog, art & links sections of my site!
Most recent blog posts
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Posted on Wednesday, 21. August 2024
The shocking secret CSS developers don't want you to know. Learn the truth now!
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Posted on Tuesday, 20. August 2024
How to implement robust, Windows-proof relative file path handling in Node.js ES modules
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Posted on Wednesday, 6. March 2024
Comparing my latest smartphone to the very first one I ever owned. How things have changed over 20 years.
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Please note that I probably won't follow / add / whatever you back automatically unless I actually know you from meatspace! Call me old-skool if you like, but I don't want every Tom, Dick and Harry seeing photos of me on a night out! :-P
Oh yeah, incase you're wondering, I've not bothered with MySpace since I have a perfectly good "space" here (and one that doesn't look like someone barfed all over your browser either)!
About James Nash's site
The design you see before you now was released in 2009. It was the first major re-design of this site since this website launched in 2002. I lovingly hand-coded all the XHTML and CSS. All the graphicswere made in GIMP.
Originally, there was (very simple) a back-end written in PHP and it was all hosted on my own webserver . However, as of June 2020 that setup has been replaced with an 11ty-powered static site build that gets deployed via Netlify.