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Did You Know About the :has CSS Selector?
In Praise of the Unambiguous Click Menu
HTML Inputs and Labels: A Love Story
A Super Flexible CSS Carousel, Enhanced With JavaScript Navigation
Exploring @property and its Animating Powers
Firebase Crash Course
Web Components Are Easier Than You Think
Taming Blend Modes: `difference` and `exclusion`
:where() has a cool specificity trick, too.
The WordPress Evolution Toward Full-Site Editing
Image Fragmentation Effect With CSS Masks and Custom Properties
Building a Settings Component
This is a tremendous CSS-focused tutorial from Adam Argyle. I really like the “just for gap” concept here. Grid is extremely powerful, but you don’t have to use all its abilities every time you reach for it. Here, Adam …
Going “Meta GSAP”: The Quest for “Perfect” Infinite Scrolling
I‘m not sure how this one came about. But, it‘s a story. This article is more about grokking a concept, one that’s going to help you think about your animations in a different way. It so happens that this particular …
Cloud study
This Robin Sloan fella is an interesting character. Not only have I read his one of his fiction novels, the tremendous Mr. Penumbra’s 24‑Hour Bookstore, but I also use the olive oil he makes with partner Kathryn Tomajan. …
Why Netlify?
I think it’s fair to think of Netlify as a CDN-backed static file host. But it would also be silly to think that’s all it is. That’s why I think it’s smart for them to have pages like this, comparing …
CSS is a Strongly Typed Language
One of the ways you can classify a programming language is by how strongly or weakly typed it is. Here, “typed” means if variables are known at compile time. An example of this would be a scenario where an integer …
How to Leverage the Fullscreen API… and Style It
Let’s look at the Fullscreen API in JavaScript. It allows you to do a pretty powerful thing: full screening exactly one particular element you want it to. Not only that, but CSS can help as well with a special selector.…
See You Around
Get it? Because this blog post is about Around, the wonderful new video call software. I’ve been using it for my video calls and I’d be happy to deliver you a TLDR right off the bat: It’s nice. It …
Headless Form Submission With the WordPress REST API
If you’re building a WordPress site, you need a good reason not to choose a WordPress form plugin. They are convenient and offer plenty of customizations that would take a ton of effort to build from scratch. They render the …
The `ping` attribute on anchor links
I didn’t know this was a thing until Stefan Judis’s post:
<a href="https://www.stefanjudis.com/popular-posts/"
ping="https://www.stefanjudis.com/tracking/"Read popular posts</a
You give an anchor link a URL via a ping
attribute, and the browser will hit that URL with a web request …
Comparing the New Generation of Build Tools
A bunch of new developer tools have landed in the past year and they are biting at the heels of the tools that have dominated front-end development over the last few years, including webpack, Babel, Rollup, Parcel, create-react-app.
These new …

CSS Is, In Fact, Awesome
You’ve seen the iconic image. Perhaps some of what makes that image so iconic is that people see what they want to see in it. If you see it as a critique of CSS being silly, weird, or confusing, you …
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