It’s January and we’re seeing a little round of CSS wishlists make the rounds. Phew! That’s a lot of people taking the time to be pumped about CSS and make clear what they want. The way CSS is going lately I would not be surprised to see massive progress again in 2024. Stephanie Eckles points […]

I’m in the mood for a typography focused edition. I have some links saved up I’ve been meaning to read. I’m going to start reading now and the links that turn out any good I’ll put below. Mike Mai put together a Typography Manual (for type on the web). It’s a pretty random spattering of […]

New year, new local code editor? It’s maybe worth a peak at Zed, at least. They do a good job in the one-sentence pitch: Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter. All tech things have to be fast, so check. No shade either, speed is vital in all […]

The “switch” is a pretty common design pattern on the web. It’s pretty much a checkbox. In fact, under the HTML hood, it really ought to be an <input type=”checkbox”> or perhaps a <select> with just two <option>s (or a third if there is an indeterminate state). But unfortunately, the web doesn’t give us any […]

Let’s do a Web Components issue this week. We gotta do it. As Scott Vandehey says: HTML Web Components Are Having a Moment. Scott links to a pretty healthy stew of other people’s writing where they have their own ah-ha moments where they can picture the usefulness of native Web Components in their own work. I […]

Kilian Valkhof has a good one this week, You don’t need JavaScript for that, as part of the HTMLHell yearly Advent Calendar (of blog posts). He opens with the rule of least power: Choose the least powerful language suitable for a given purpose. That’s fun for us CSS nerds, because CSS is a pretty low […]

Josh Comeau has a new learning guide out for CSS grid: An Interactive Guide to CSS Grid. I like how Josh gets into the “mental model” right away, because that’s the biggest thing with big APIs like this: you need to get the basics of how it works in your head so you know when […]

I was ogling the idea of Exit Animations recently, that is, a recent proposal for (something like) @exit-style which could allow us to animate elements as we remove them from the DOM. That is largely just a proposal at the moment, with many challenges ahead. But there is new tech that helps with exit (and […]

I’m a sucker for a new coding font. I generally don’t think what coding font you use affects productivity in any significant way (unless it’s distracting) so farting around and switching it up is just a fun little thing to do. Like pushing around the furniture in your room or taking a different bike route […]

Footer.design is a pretty fun gallery site, itself, of course, with a pretty weird/bold footer. I’ve designed my fair share of footers over the years and it’s certainly an area where you just wanna look at like 50 footers before you start in. See what other people are doing. Can you be clever? Should you […]