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Crypto for Advisors: Asian Stablecoin Adoption
14.8.2025
Examining South Korea’s tightly controlled CBDC approach versus Japan’s open stablecoin framework, and what these shifts could mean for investors
On Accessibility Conformance, Design Systems, and CSS “Base” Units
14.8.2025
My brain can’t help but try to make connections between seemingly disparate ideas. And that’s what happened yesterday when I read:
Hidde’s “Can components conform to WCAG?”
Joas’s “Automating Design Systems”
Zell’s “We Might Need...
The Protocol: OKX Slashes Native Token Supply In Half
13.8.2025
Also: ETH Transaction Volume Climbs, Trading Bots Steal $1M From Users, and Babylon Trustless Bitcoin Vaults
We Might Need Something Between Root and Relative CSS Units for “Base Elements”
13.8.2025
I've come to realize that perhaps we need to have a unit between root and relative values. This would bring about a whole new possibility when creating reusable components.
We Might Need Something Between Root and Relative CSS Units for “Base Elements” originally published...
CSS-Questions
12.8.2025
CSS-Questions is a mini site where you can test your CSS knowledge with over 100 questions.
CSS-Questions originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter
Getting Creative With Quotes
11.8.2025
How do you design block quotes and pull quotes to reflect a brand’s visual identity and help tell its story? Here’s how I do it by styling the HTML blockquote element using borders, decorative quote marks, custom shapes, and a few unexpected properties.
Getting Creative With Quotes originally...
Stuff & Nonsense Practical Layout Workshop
11.8.2025
Web design veteran Andy Clarke is offering a two-hour workshop all about creating practical and creative page layouts this September 18. Register and save a few bucks with a coupon code.
Stuff & Nonsense Practical Layout Workshop originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of...
How to Prepare for CSS-Specific Interview Questions
8.8.2025
Get advice answering a set of 10 CSS-related questions you likely will encounter in front-end interviews.
How to Prepare for CSS-Specific Interview Questions originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter
Bringing Back Parallax With Scroll-Driven CSS Animations
6.8.2025
Parallax is a pattern in which different elements of a webpage move at varying speeds as the user scrolls, creating a three-dimensional, layered appearance. It once required JavaScript. Now we have scroll-driven animations in CSS, which is free from the main-thread blocking that can plague...
Thinking Deeply About Theming and Color Naming
4.8.2025
Today, I want to discuss a couple of patterns for naming color palettes that the community is using, and how I propose we can improve, so we achieve both flexibility and beauty.
Thinking Deeply About Theming and Color Naming originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean...
Keeping Article Demos Alive When Third-Party APIs Die
30.7.2025
Is there a way to build demos that do not break when the services they rely on fail? How can we ensure educational demos stay available for as long as possible?
Keeping Article Demos Alive When Third-Party APIs Die originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family....
Making a Masonry Layout That Works Today
28.7.2025
I went on to figure out how make masonry work today with other browsers. I'm happy to report I've found a way — and, bonus! — that support can be provided with only 66 lines of JavaScript.
Making a Masonry Layout That Works Today originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of...
State of Crypto: The Senate Responds to Clarity Act
26.7.2025
The Senate Banking Committee introduced a discussion draft bill to address crypto market structure issues
How to Discover a CSS Trick
25.7.2025
Do we invent or discover CSS tricks? Lee Meyer discusses how creative limitations, recursive thinking, and unexpected combinations lead to his most interesting ideas.
How to Discover a CSS Trick originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get...
Atomic Design Certification Course
24.7.2025
Brad Frost introduced the “Atomic Design” concept wayyyy back in 2013. He even wrote a book on it. And we all took notice, because that term has been part of our lexicon ever since.
It’s a nice way …
Atomic Design Certification Course originally published on CSS-Tricks...
The Protocol: Ethereum Validator Exit Queue Backs Up
23.7.2025
Also: Jito Debuts BAM, Ethereum Validators Raise the Gas Limit and Dogecoin Could Get ZK Proofs
A First Look at the Interest Invoker API (for Hover-Triggered Popovers)
23.7.2025
Chrome 139 is experimenting with Open UI’s proposed Interest Invoker API, which would be used to create tooltips, hover menus, hover cards, quick actions, and other types of UIs for showing more information with hover interactions.
A First Look at the Interest Invoker API (for Hover-Triggered...
A Primer on Focus Trapping
21.7.2025
Focus trapping is about managing focus within an element, such that focus always stays within it. The whole process sounds simple in theory, but it can quite difficult to build in practice, mostly because of the numerous parts to you got to manage.
A Primer on Focus Trapping originally published...
Getting Creative With Versal Letters
18.7.2025
A versal letters is a typographic flourish found in illuminated manuscripts and traditional book design, where it adds visual interest and helps guide a reader’s eye to where they should begin.
Getting Creative With Versal Letters originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of...
Getting Clarity on Apple’s Liquid Glass
17.7.2025
Gathered notes on Liquid Glass, Apple’s new design language that was introduced at WWDC 2025. These links are a choice selection of posts and resources that I've found helpful for understanding the context of Liquid Glass, as well as techniques for recreating it in code.
Getting Clarity...