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Add a CSS Lens Flare to Photos for a Bright Touch
Creating the DigitalOcean Logo in 3D With CSS
Cool Hover Effects That Use Background Properties
Adding Tailwind CSS to New and Existing WordPress Themes
Inline Image Previews with Sharp, BlurHash, and Lambda Functions
Don’t you hate it when you load a website or web app, some content displays and then some images load — causing content to shift around? That’s called content reflow and can lead to an incredibly annoying user experience for …
An Interactive Starry Backdrop for Content
Improving Icons for UI Elements with Typographic Alignment and Scale
Utilizing icons in user interface elements is helpful. In addition to element labeling, icons can help reinforce a user element’s intention to users. But I have to say, I notice a bit of icon misalignment while browsing the web. Even …
Creating Style Variations in WordPress Block Themes
Global styles, a feature of the block themes, is one of my favorite parts of creating block themes. The concept of global style variations in WordPress were introduced in Gutenberg 12.5 which would allow theme authors to create alternate …
Cool Hover Effects That Use CSS Text Shadow
In my last article we saw how CSS background
properties allow us to create cool hover effects. This time, we will focus on the CSS text-shadow
property to explore even more interesting hovers. You are probably wondering how adding shadow …
A CSS Slinky in 3D? Challenge Accepted!
Braydon Coyer recently launched a monthly CSS art challenge. He actually had reached out to me about donating a copy of my book Move Things with CSS to use as a prize for the winner of the challenge — …
COLRv1 and CSS font-palette: Web Typography Gets Colorful
According to Toshi Omagari, the author of Arcade Game Typography, the world’s first multi-colored digital font was created in 1982 for a never-released video game called Insector. Multi-colored fonts, sometimes called chromatic type, are still relatively rare on the …
Let’s Create a Tiny Programming Language
By now, you are probably familiar with one or more programming languages. But have you ever wondered how you could create your own programming language? And by that, I mean:
…A programming language is any set of rules that convert

Useful Tools for Creating AVIF Images
AVIF (AV1 Image File Format) is a modern image file format specification for storing images that offer a much more significant file reduction when compared to other formats like JPG, JPEG, PNG, and WebP. Version 1.0.0 of the AVIF specification …
How to Serve a Subdomain as a Subdirectory
Let’s say you have a website built on a platform that excels at design and it’s available at example.com
. But that platform falls short at blogging. So you think to yourself, “What if I could use a different blogging …
Syntax Highlighting (and More!) With Prism on a Static Site
So, you’ve decided to build a blog with Next.js. Like any dev blogger, you’d like to have code snippets in your posts that are formatted nicely with syntax highlighting. Perhaps you also want to display line numbers in the …