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COLRv1 and CSS font-palette: Web Typography Gets Colorful
Let’s Create a Tiny Programming Language
Cool Hover Effects That Use Background Properties
Adding Custom GitHub Badges to Your Repo
A Perfect Table of Contents With HTML + CSS
A CSS Slinky in 3D? Challenge Accepted!
Equal Columns With Flexbox: It’s More Complicated Than You Might Think
Dialog Components: Go Native HTML or Roll Your Own?
Syntax Highlighting (and More!) With Prism on a Static Site
Auto-Sizing Columns in CSS Grid: `auto-fill` vs `auto-fit`
Different Ways to Write CSS in React
We’re all familiar with the standard way of linking up a stylesheet to the <head>
of an HTML doc, right? That’s just one of several ways we’re able to write CSS. But what does it look like to style things …
Single Element Loaders: The Dots
We’re looking at loaders in this series. More than that, we’re breaking down some common loader patterns and how to re-create them with nothing more than a single div. So far, we’ve picked apart the classic spinning loader. Now, …
Conditionally Styling Selected Elements in a Grid Container
Calendars, shopping carts, galleries, file explorers, and online libraries are some situations where selectable items are shown in grids (i.e. square lattices). You know, even those security checks that ask you to select all images with crosswalks or whatever.…
De-Mystifying IndieWeb on a WordPress Site
Well, sheesh. I opened a little can of worms when sharing Miriam’s “Am I on the IndieWeb yet?” with a short post bemoaning my own trouble getting on the IndieWeb train. But it’s a good can of worms.
I think …
Useful Tools for Visualizing Databases on a Budget
A diagram is a graphical representation of information that depicts the structure, relationship, or operation of anything. Diagrams enable your audience to visually grasp hidden information and engage with them in ways that words alone cannot. Depending on the type …

break-before
The CSS break-before
property is neat in that it allows, forces, or prevents breaks in paged media, multi-column layouts, and regions. When applying the property to an element, what we’re doing is providing an instruction for whether to break or …
break-after
The CSS break-after
property is neat in that it allows, forces, or prevents breaks in paged media, multi-column layouts, and regions. When applying the property to an element, what we’re doing is providing an instruction for whether to break or …
Single Element Loaders: The Spinner
Making CSS-only loaders is one of my favorite tasks. It’s always satisfying to look at those infinite animations. And, of course, there are lots of techniques and approaches to make them — no need to look further than CodePen to …
Am I on the IndieWeb yet?
Can’t smash the Like button hard enough for what Miriam Suzanne has to say on the challenging technical hurdles of implementing Webmentions:
…The first round required several online services along with HTML & JS changes to my static site, just to verify my
Let’s Make a QR Code Generator With a Serverless Function!
QR codes are funny, right? We love them, then hate them, then love them again. Anyways, they’ve lately been popping up again and it got me thinking about how they’re made. There are like a gazillion QR code generators out …
Building Interoperable Web Components That Even Work With React
Those of us who’ve been web developers more than a few years have probably written code using more than one JavaScript framework. With all the choices out there — React, Svelte, Vue, Angular, Solid — it’s all but inevitable. One …