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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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Crypto for Advisors: Crypto Treasuries, ETFs and Investments
9.10.2025
Institutional demand and favorable policy drove Q3 crypto recovery. Ether ETF flows surpassed bitcoin. Altcoins surged as bitcoin dominance fell, marking a shift toward multi-asset institutional allocation
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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State of Crypto: What Happens to Crypto if Government Shutdown Lingers
4.10.2025
A short-term shutdown probably won't hurt crypto's efforts in D.C. much. A long-lasting one? That's less clear
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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State of Crypto: Shutdown Watch
27.9.2025
A U.S. government shutdown won't be as bad for crypto as it might have been in previous years, but it will further delay already-stalled initiatives
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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The Protocol: Ethereum Developers Target December for Fusaka Hard Fork
24.9.2025
Also: Plasma to Launch Mainnet This Week, New Liquid Staking Token for XRP Holders, and ICP Bets Big on AI Tech Stack
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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State of Crypto: ETF Listings Became Easier
20.9.2025
Companies just need to prove they meet new generic listing standards
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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The Protocol: ETH Exit Queue Gridlocks As Validators Pile Up
17.9.2025
Also: DeFi’s Future on Ethereum, EF Creates dAI team, and Amex Blockchain-Based Travel Stamps
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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The Protocol: SwissBorg’s SOL Earn Wallet Exploited for $41.5M
10.9.2025
Also: Ledger CTO Warns of NPM Exploit, Backpack EU opens, and Polygon PoS Chain Reports Finality Lag
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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