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CSS Animations That Leverage the Parent-Child Relationship
24.10.2025
When we change an element’s intrinsic sizing, its children are affected, too. This is something we can use to our advantage.
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An Introduction to JavaScript Expressions
22.10.2025
A thorough but approachable lesson on JavaScript expressions excerpted JavaScript For Everyone, a complete online course offered by our friends at Piccalilli.
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Building a Honeypot Field That Works
20.10.2025
Honeypots are fields that developers use to prevent spam submissions. They still work in 2025. But you got to set a couple of tricks in place so spambots can’t detect your honeypot field.
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Sequential linear() Animation With N Elements
15.10.2025
Let’s suppose you have N elements with the same animation that should animate sequentially. Modern CSS makes this easy and it works for any number of items!
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Masonry: Watching a CSS Feature Evolve
13.10.2025
What can CSS Masonry discussions teach us about the development of new CSS features? What is the CSSWG’s role? What influence do browsers have? What can learn from the way past features evolved?
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We Completely Missed width/height: stretch
10.10.2025
The TL;DR is that stretch does the same thing as declaring 100%, but ignores padding when looking at the available space.
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The thing about contrast-color
8.10.2025
One of our favorites, Andy Clarke, on the one thing keeping the CSS contrast-color() function from true glory:
For my website design, I chose a dark blue background colour (#212E45) and light text (#d3d5da). This
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Getting Creative With shape-outside
6.10.2025
There are so many creative opportunities for using shape-outside that I’m surprised I see it used so rarely. So, how can you use it to add personality to a design? Here’s how I do it.
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Same Idea, Different Paint Brush
1.10.2025
Naturally, everything looks like code when I'm staring at a blank canvas. That's whether the canvas is paper, a screen, some Figma artboard, or what have you.
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Touring New CSS Features in Safari 26
29.9.2025
Safari 26 adds:75 new features, 3 deprecations, and 171 other improvements. Here's all the CSS goodness you'll want to know about.
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Recreating Gmail’s Google Gemini Animation
26.9.2025
John Rhea challenged himself to recreate the fancy button using the new CSS shape() function sprinkled with animation to get things pretty close.
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CSS Typed Arithmetic
24.9.2025
Starting in Chrome 140, we'll be able to calculate numeric values with mixed data types. Sounds small, but Amit demonstrates how big a deal this is, calling it Computational CSS.
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15 Tips To Know Before Playing Dying Light: The Beast
22.9.2025
We've got a lot of useful tips and tricks to use in Techland's new zombie RPG
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12 Tips To Know Before Playing Borderlands 4
19.9.2025
Here's a few quick tips for playing Gearbox's latest first-person sci-fi looter shooter
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On inclusive personas and inclusive user research
19.9.2025
A set of notes taken from Eric Bailey's article about the use of inclusive personas and user research.
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Is it Time to Un-Sass?
17.9.2025
Many of the Sass features we've grown to love have made their way into native CSS in some shape or form. So, should we still use Sass? This is how developer Jeff Bridgworth is thinking about it.
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The “Most Hated” CSS Feature: cos() and sin()
15.9.2025
I want to look at practical uses for CSS trigonometric functions. And we'll start with what may be the most popular functions of the "worst" feature: sin() and cos().
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What Can We Actually Do With corner-shape?
12.9.2025
When I first started messing around with code, rounded corners required five background images or an image sprite likely created in Photoshop, so when border-radius came onto the scene, I remember everybody thinking that it was the best thing ever. …
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Compiling Multiple CSS Files into One
11.9.2025
Stu Robson outlines two ways to compile multiple CSS files when you aren't relying on Sass for it.
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What’re Your Top 4 CSS Properties?
10.9.2025
Everyone has a different opinion which is great because it demonstrates the messy, non-linear craft that is thinking like a front-end developer.
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