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Creating Color Themes With Custom Properties, HSL, and a Little calc()
16.4.2020
Before the advent of CSS custom properties (we might call them “variables” in this article as that’s the spirit of them), implementing multiple color schemes on the same website usually meant writing separate stylesheets. Definitely not the most maintainable thing in the world. Nowadays, though,...
Jetpack Instant Search!
16.4.2020
Jetpack has had a search feature for a while. Flip it on, and it replaces your built-in WordPress search (which is functional, but not particularly good) with an Elasticsearch-powered solution that is faster and has better results. I’ve been using that for quite a while here on CSS-Tricks...
US COVID-19 Relief Plan Will Use Fintech, but Crypto Not Welcome
16.4.2020
Crypto lenders can help small businesses affected by COVID-19, but they are locked out of the U.S. government’s relief program
How to Add Native Keyword Aliases to Babel
16.4.2020
Those of you who follow this blog know that not every blog post is an endorsement of a technique but simply a tutorial how to accomplish something. Sometimes the technique described is probably not something you should do. This is one of those blog posts. The Babel parser is an essential tool...
‘Black Thursday’ Liquidations Sparks $28M Lawsuit Against Maker Foundation
15.4.2020
The Maker Foundation is being sued in a class-action lawsuit for $28 million over the March 12 event that caused over $2 million in liquidations. The lawsuit alleges that the team behind the Makerdao project did not explain the extreme risk of loss to investors. Also read: ETH Price Strains Defi...
Using CSS to Set Text Inside a Circle
14.4.2020
You want to set some text inside the shape of a circle with HTML and CSS? That’s crazy talk, right?
Not really! Thanks to shape-outside and some pure CSS trickery it is possible to do exactly that.
However, this can be a fiddly layout option. We have to take lots of different things into...
World Governments at G20 Are Concerned About All Stablecoins, Not Just Libra
14.4.2020
The G20’s Financial Stability Board believes stablecoins are dangerous due to their ability to circumvent capital controls
No-Class CSS Frameworks
13.4.2020
I linked up Water.css not long ago as an interesting sort of CSS framework. No classes. No <h2 class="is-title">. You just use semantic HTML and get styles. Is that going to “scale” very far? Probably not, but it sure is handy for styling things quickly, where — of course...
Post COVID-19, Companies Must Be Resilient, Not Just Efficient
13.4.2020
Companies need better emergency planning. They can't always rely on government in a crisis, says our columnist
How to Create a CSS-Tricks Custom Scrollbar
13.4.2020
Chris Coyier of CSS-Tricks is an amazing engineer and blogger. He’s not only creative but has always had the drive to put his thoughts to work, no matter how large. He also has a good eye for the little things that can make CSS-Tricks or your site special. One of those little things is...
When debugging, your attitude matters
12.4.2020
Julia Evans:
I was debugging some CSS last week, and I think that post is missing something important: your attitude.
Now – I’m not a very good CSS developer yet. I’ve never written CSS professionally and I don’t understand a lot of basic CSS concepts (I think I finally understood for the first...
Zero Interest Rates Not The Only Driver For Stablecoin Demand
11.4.2020
The coronavirus has brought zero USD interest rates. And with zero or potentially even negative interest rates, it might also bring greater demand for stablecoins and for cryptocurrencies more generally.
Why? Because now there's no opportunity cost when it comes to holding USD-backed stablecoins...
Thinking in Behaviors, Not Screen Sizes
11.4.2020
Chase McCoy wrote a nifty post about the “gap problem” when making a grid of items. His argument might be summarized like this: how should we space elements with margins in CSS? He notes that the gap property isn’t quite ready for prime time when it comes to using it with flexbox, like this:
.grid...
Online Voting Not Secure Even With Blockchain, Says US Association
10.4.2020
Voting on the blockchain in the United States is neither secure nor reliable, according to a letter written by a scientific association
Internet Voting Is ‘Not Secure’ and Blockchain Won’t Help, Warns Scientific Body
9.4.2020
Internet voting tools – including blockchain apps – have fundamental issues, and are not safe for real elections, a multidisciplinary science group told U.S. policy makers
The Questions We’re Not Allowed to Ask, Feat. Hidden Forces’ Demetri Kofinas
8.4.2020
A candid conversation with Hidden Forces host Demetri Kofinas about Covid-19 response, media incentives, and the getting the economy back in action
Bitcoin Futures Did Not ‘Manipulate’ BTC Price — Stock-to-Flow Creator
8.4.2020
Bitcoin did not break stock-to-flow rules as a result of futures introduction, argues the model’s creator
Sweden’s ‘Lagom’ Response to Coronavirus: No Masks, Keep The Economy Going With a “No Limit” Printing Press
7.4.2020
The Coronavirus in Sweden has so far claimed 611 deaths, with 7849 confirmed cases. Swedish people still send their kids to school and are not hoarding much of anything compared to countries like the US. But just like in most of the world many businesses are hit hard, and the country's central bank...
Learn Eleventy From Scratch
7.4.2020
The latest edition of Andy Bell’s Piccalilli landed in my inbox this morning with a sweet offer: preorder Andy’s course on learning Eleventy from scratch at a third of the price.
Why the plug? No, not sponsorships or anything like that. I just happen to hear a heckuva lot about Eleventy...
Revolut Expands Crypto Offering – But Not in the US
6.4.2020
Fintech challenger bank Revolut accelerated its plans to offer crypto buy and sell services due to recent actions by central banks, said head of crypto Edward Cooper