Search
Clamp it! VS Code extension
23.10.2024
There’s a lot of math behind fluid typography. CSS does make the math a lot easier these days, but even if you’re comfortable with that, writing the full declaration can be verbose and tough to remember. I know I often …
Clamp it! VS Code extension originally published...
Combining forces, GSAP & Webflow!
18.10.2024
Change can certainly be scary whenever a beloved, independent software library becomes a part of a larger organization. I’m feeling a bit more excitement than concern this time around, though.
If you haven’t heard, GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform) is teaming …
Combining...
Mastering theme.json: You might not need CSS
18.10.2024
I totally get the goal here: make CSS more modular and scalable in WordPress. Put all your global WordPress theme styles in a single file, including variations. JSON offers a nicely structured syntax that’s easily consumable by JavaScript, thereby allowing …
Mastering theme.json:...
WPGraphQL Becomes a Canonical Plugin: My Move to Automattic
10.10.2024
It’s always a gas when a good person doing good work gets a good deal. In this case, Jason’s viral WPGraphQL plugin has not only become a canonical WordPress plugin, but creator Jason Bahl is joining Automattic as well.
I’m …
WPGraphQL Becomes a Canonical Plugin: My Move...
2024: More CSS At-Rules Than the Past Decade Combined
9.10.2024
More times than I can count, while writing, I get myself into random but interesting topics with little relation to the original post. In the end, I have to make the simple but painful choice of deleting or archiving hours …
2024: More CSS At-Rules Than the Past Decade Combined originally...
Roblox gets Hindenburg-ed: should we take it seriously?
8.10.2024
Also: the latest most-streamed games and a metric acre of handy links
Smashing Hour With Heydon Pickering
8.10.2024
I sat down with Heydon Pickering in the most recent episode of the Smashing Hour. Full transparency: I was nervous as heck. I’ve admired Heydon’s work for years, and even though we run in similar circles, this was our first …
Smashing Hour With Heydon Pickering originally...
The Proliferation and Problem of the ✨ Sparkles ✨ Icon
3.10.2024
Kate Kaplan hits on something over at Nielsen Norman Group’s blog that’s been bugging me:
The challenge with this icon is sparkle ambiguity: Participants in our recent research study generally agreed that it represented something a little special
…
The Proliferation...
Aggregating my distributed self
27.9.2024
Miriam Suzanne’s in the middle of a redesign of her personal website. It began in August 2022. She’s made an entire series out of the work that’s worth your time, but I wanted to call out the fifth and latest …
Aggregating my distributed self originally published...
BCD Watch
26.9.2024
A new tool from Eric Meyer, Brian Kardell, and Stephanie Stimac backed with Igalia’s support. Brian announced it on his blog, as did Eric, describing it like this:
What BCD Watch does is, it grabs releases of the Browser
…
BCD Watch originally published on CSS-Tricks, which...
The selectmenu Element is No More…Long Live select!
23.9.2024
I was looking over an older article Patrick Brosset penned for us introducing <selectmenu>, a new proposal at the time for a more style-able cousin to <select>. From there, I clicked the linked-up <selectmenu> explainer and got… this:…
The selectmenu Element...
Multiple Anchors
16.9.2024
Only Chris, right? You’ll want to view this in a Chromium browser:
CodePen Embed Fallback
This is exactly the sort of thing I love, not for its practicality (cuz it ain’t), but for how it illustrates a concept. Generally, tutorials …
Multiple Anchors originally published...
Smashing Hour With Lynn Fisher
16.9.2024
I’m a big Lynn Fisher fan. You probably are, too, if you’re reading this. Or maybe you’re reading her name for the first time, in which case you’re in for a treat.
That’s because I had a chance to sit …
Smashing Hour With Lynn Fisher originally published...
Flappy Bird creator disavows revived game that hints crypto ties
16.9.2024
The new owners of the trademark Flappy Bird trademark say it’s coming back, and deleted web pages suggest it could have something to do with crypto
US Treasury Sanctions Cambodian Tycoon Over Crypto Fraud and Trafficking Links
13.9.2024
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has imposed sanctions on Cambodian tycoon Ly Yong Phat and his businesses, linking them to human trafficking and forced labor scams involving cryptocurrency fraud. Victims were manipulated into online scam centers, and trafficked workers were forced into labor...
What’s Old is New
12.9.2024
I collect a bunch of links in a bookmarks folder. These are things I fully intend to read, and I do — eventually. It’s a good thing bookmarks are digital, otherwise, I’d need a bigger coffee table to separate them …
What’s Old is New originally published on CSS-Tricks, which...
Sanding UI
10.9.2024
Jim hit a snag while working on a form. Placing labels next to inputs is trivial with flexbox, sure, but what happened in Jim’s case was a bit of dead-clicking between the labels and radio buttons.
The issue? Not the …
Sanding UI originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of...
Time Travelling CSS With :target
9.9.2024
Checkbox and radio button hacks are the (in)famous trick for creating games using just CSS. But it turns out that other elements based on user input can be hacked and gamified. There are very cool examples of developers getting creative with CSS...
Sticky Headers And Full-Height Elements: A Tricky Combination
9.9.2024
Quite a fun article I worked on with Philip Braunen. Do you know that little bit of elasticity you get when scrolling beyond the viewport when browsing the web on a mobile device? iPhone calls it a “rubber-banding” effect. …
Sticky Headers And Full-Height Elements: A Tricky...
Lara and Tiffany Trump X accounts hacked, users warned not to click links
4.9.2024
Scammers have taken over two accounts associated with presidential candidate Donald Trump's family