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How to Play and Pause CSS Animations with CSS Custom Properties
Let’s have a look CSS @keyframes
animations, and specifically about how you can pause and otherwise control them. There is a CSS property specifically for it, that can be controlled with JavaScript, but there is plenty of nuance to get …
What if you could cut your hosting costs by 80%? Webiny Serverless CMS makes it possible.
Are you hosting one or more websites and are using a headless CMS? Are you hosting your CMS on a virtual machine or a container, or using a SaaS solution? If so, then you’re paying for the uptime, regardless if …
Scrollbars on Hover
First, scrollbars are a usability and accessibility thing. Second, a rule of thumb: if an area scrolls, it should have a visible scrollbar. But the web is a big place and I like tricks, so I’m going to cover the …
New in Chrome 88: aspect-ratio
And it was released yesterday! The big news for us in CSS Land is that the new release supports the aspect-ratio
property. This comes right on the heels of Safari announcing support for it in Safari Technology Preview 118, …
aspect-ratio
The CSS property aspect-ratio
lets you create boxes that maintain proportional dimensions where the height
and width
of a box are calculated automatically as a ratio. It’s a little math-y, but the idea is that you can divide one value …
Lightweight Form Validation with Alpine.js and Iodine.js
Many users these days expect instant feedback in form validation. How do you achieve this level of interactivity when you’re building a small static site or a server-rendered Rails or Laravel app? Alpine.js and Iodine.js are two minimal JavaScript …

Life with ESM
ESM, meaning ES Modules, meaning JavaScript Modules. Like, import
and friends.
Browsers support it these days. There is plenty of nuance, but as long as you’ve dropped IE, the door is fairly open.…
Netlify Edge Handlers
Netlify Edge Handlers are in Early Access (you can request it), but they are super cool and I think they are worth wrapping your brain around now. I think they change the nature of what Jamstack is and can be.…
On Type Patterns and Style Guides
Over the last six years or so, I’ve been using these things I’ve been calling “type patterns” in my web design work, and they’ve worked out pretty well for me. I’ll dig into what they are and how they can …
Rendering the WordPress philosophy in GraphQL
WordPress is a CMS that’s coded in PHP. But, even though PHP is the foundation, WordPress also holds a philosophy where user needs are prioritized over developer convenience. That philosophy establishes an implicit contract between the developers building WordPress themes …
AnimXYZ
There are quite a few CSS animation libraries. They tend to be a pile of class names that you can apply as needed like “bounce” or “slide-right” and it’ll… do those things. They tend to be pretty opinionated with …
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