The beauty of research is finding yourself on a completely unrelated topic mere minutes from opening your browser. It happened to me while writing an Almanac entry on @namespace, an at-rule that we probably won’t ever use and is often Read more…
I was chatting with Andy Clarke the other day about a new article he wants to write about SVG animations. “I’ve read some things that said that SMIL might be a dead end.” He said. “Whaddya think?” That was my impression, Read more…
I’m a big fan of Astro’s focus on developer experience (DX) and the onboarding of new developers. While the basic DX is strong, I can easily make a convoluted system that is hard to onboard my own developers to. I Read more…
It’s raw. It’s messy. And it refuses to play by the rules. Grunge isn’t just a style—it’s an attitude. From underground zines to modern digital design, grunge has always been a rebellion against perfection. But why does this chaotic, textured Read more…
A friend DMs Lee Meyer a CodePen by Manuel Schaller containing a pure CSS simulation of one of the world’s earliest arcade games, Pong, with both paddles participating automatically, in an endless loop. The demo reminds Lee of an arcade Read more…
Comparing visual artifacts can be a powerful, if fickle, approach to automated testing. Playwright makes this seem simple for websites, but the details might take a little finessing. Recent downtime prompted me to scratch an itch that had been plaguing Read more…
I came across this awesome article navigator by Jhey Tompkins: CodePen Embed Fallback It solved a UX problem I was facing on a project, so I’ve adapted it to the needs of an online course — a “course navigator” if Read more…
There’s a bit of a blind spot when working with CSS logical properties concerning shorthands. Miriam explains: Logical properties are a great way to optimize our sites in advance, without any real effort. But what if we want to set Read more…
In my last article on “Revisiting CSS Multi-Column Layout”, I mentioned that almost twenty years have flown by since I wrote my first book, Transcending CSS. In it, I explained how and why to use what were, at the time, Read more…
I’ve seen a handful of recent posts talking about the utility of the :is() relational pseudo-selector. No need to delve into the details other than to say it can help make compound selectors a lot more readable. :is(section, article, aside, Read more…
