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monica.css
20.2.2020
Monica Dinculescu:
I don’t want every possible padding and margin and colour and flexbox configuration in the world. I just want the ones that I know I end up using in every project. So here is monica.css: my very own CSS framework, which I copy paste at the beginning of every CSS file and take...
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While You Weren’t Looking, CSS Gradients Got Better
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One thing that caught my eye on the list of features for Lea Verou's conic-gradient() polyfill was the last item:
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