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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
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 …
SvelteKit is in public beta
Think of it as Next for Svelte. It’s a framework for building apps with Svelte, complete with server-side rendering, routing, code-splitting for JS and CSS, adapters for different serverless platforms and so on.
Great move. I find …
Coordinating Svelte Animations With XState
This post is an introduction to XState as it might be used in a Svelte project. XState is unique in the JavaScript ecosystem. It won’t keep your DOM synced with your application state, but it will help manage your application’s …
axe DevTools Pro
I’m going to try to show you some things I think are useful and important about axe™ DevTools and use as few words as possible. …
Space Jam
It’s certainly worth noting that the Space Jam website, which made its way into umpteen conference talks for being fabulous evidence of the web’s strength in backward compatibility, has been replaced. We could have saw that coming. Everything is …
Some Articles About Accessibility I’ve Saved Recently
- “Good news about display: contents and Chrome” — Rachel Andrew notes that the accessibility danger of using
display: contents;
is fixed in Chrome. The problem was that, say you had a parent div that is laid out as a grid
Gaps? Gasp!
At first, there were flexboxes (the children of a display: flex
container). If you wanted them to be visually separate, you had to use content justification (i.e. justify-content: space-between
), margin
trickery, or sometimes, both. Then along came grids (a …

Jetpack Turns 10!
Ten years! That’s a huge milestone for a project, especially one that had a pretty simple goal in mind from the start: give self-hosted WordPress sites many of the same features and functionality enjoyed by hosted WordPress.com sites.
It’s a …
Splitting Time Between Product and Engineering Efforts
At each company I’ve worked, we have had a split between time spent on Product initiatives and Engineering work. The percentages always changed, sometimes 70% Product, 30% Engineering, sometimes as much as a 50/50 split. The impetus is to make …
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