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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...
What I Took From the State of Dev 2025 Survey
16.7.2025
State of Devs 2025 survey results are out! Sunkanmi Fafowora highlights a few key results about diversity, health, and salaries.
What I Took From the State of Dev 2025 Survey originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter
How Parcel Simulator stealthily racked up 50k+ sales...
15.7.2025
Another solo-dev sim hits big; also: a look at AI usage in Steam games & much discovery news
Setting Line Length in CSS (and Fitting Text to a Container)
14.7.2025
The many ways to juggle line length when working with text... including two proposed properties that could make it easier in the future.
Setting Line Length in CSS (and Fitting Text to a Container) originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get...
Is this how to decide the game you'll make next?
11.7.2025
Also: another stellar Valve video, Steam debuts, and lots of discovery news
The Layout Maestro Course
11.7.2025
Layout. It’s one of those easy-to-learn, difficult-to-master things, like they say about playing bass. Not because it’s innately difficult to, say, place two elements next to each other, but because there are many, many ways to tackle it. And …
The Layout Maestro Course...
Scroll-Driven Sticky Heading
11.7.2025
I was playing around with scroll-driven animations, just searching for all sorts of random things you could do. That’s when I came up with the idea to animate main headings and, using scroll-driven animations, change the headings based on the user’s scroll position.
Scroll-Driven Sticky Heading...
How Peak sold 4.5m copies in less than a month...
8.7.2025
We talk to the creators. Also: a bunch of news, plus monthly Roblox charts
Better CSS Shapes Using shape() — Part 4: Close and Move
7.7.2025
The shape() function's close and move commands may not be ones you reach for often, but are incredibly useful for certain shapes.
Better CSS Shapes Using shape() — Part 4: Close and Move originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter
Steam's top new games for June 2025, revealed...
4.7.2025
Also: lots of news, and (for Plus/Pro subs) the most-wishlisted 2025 games on Steam
How Cairn grabbed 500k demo downloads on Steam/PS5...
1.7.2025
It's the other mountaineering game! Also: June's top Steam games & lots of news
The Gap Strikes Back: Now Stylable
1.7.2025
Styling the space between layout items — the gap — has typically required some clever workarounds. But a new CSS feature changes all that with just a few simple CSS properties that make it easy, yet also flexible, to display styled separators between your layout items.
The Gap Strikes Back:...
Using CSS Cascade Layers With Tailwind Utilities
30.6.2025
Being the bad boy I am, I don't take Tailwind's default approach to cascade layers as the "best" one. Over a year experimenting with Tailwind and vanilla CSS, I've come across what I believe is a better solution.
Using CSS Cascade Layers With Tailwind Utilities originally published on CSS-Tricks...
Which genres have 'ruled' Steam? A new view!
27.6.2025
Also: lots of news and this week's remaining game platform news
CSS Blob Recipes
27.6.2025
Blob, Blob, Blob. What's the most effective way to create blob shapes in CSS? Turns out, as always, there are many. Let's compare them together!
CSS Blob Recipes originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter
KelpUI
26.6.2025
KelpUI is new library that Chris Ferdinandi is developing, designed to leverage newer CSS features and Web Components. I've enjoyed following Chris as he's published an ongoing series of articles detailing his thought process behind the library, getting deep into his approach. You really get...
Poking at the CSS if() Function a Little More: Conditional Color Theming
25.6.2025
The CSS if() function enables us to use values conditionally, which we can already do with queries and other functions, so I’m sure you’re wondering: What exactly does if() do? Let's look at a possible real-world use case.
Poking at the CSS if() Function a Little More: Conditional Color Theming...
Who's winning video game Discords? We know!
24.6.2025
Also: a look at Apple Arcade's 2025 trends & lots of discovery news
Lightly Poking at the CSS if() Function in Chrome 137
24.6.2025
The CSS if() function was recently implemented in Chrome 137, making it the first instance where we have it supported by a mainstream browser. Let's poke at it a bit at a very high level.
Lightly Poking at the CSS if() Function in Chrome 137 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of...