Liquid Glass on the Web

It's a complicated look! There may or may not be blurring, light refracts in tricky ways, the highlights are quite bright, and you've got to be very careful about text contrast accessibility.

Fonts for Wireframing

When you’re doing a design prototype, it’s common to use the actual fonts the design will use, but use “lorem ipsum” text. The idea being to not distract anyone with real words when they are supposed to be looking at the design. Or you just don’t have any real text to work with at that […]

The Figcaption Problem

When an image isn't

The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-Five-Year Mistake

Very interesting (2 hour!) conference talk from Casey Muratori that is quite a deep historical dive into Object-Oriented Programming. Some of it went over my head, but it was still a fun watch. It’s great to think about where we draw boundaries in software development, and in this case, looking at the difference between drawing […]

Introducing Zustand (State Management)

Zustand is a minimal, but fun and effective state management library which just may improve your render performance.

new Date(“wtf”)

Adaptive Alerts (a CSS scroll-state Use Case)

A single button, but it has two different behaviors in JavaScript depending on how far you’ve scrolled in an element (as determined by CSS!)

Stacked Transforms

A look at what happens when you add a whole list of transforms to an element, and how that interacts with `animation-composition`.

How JavaScript’s at() method makes array indexing easier

A little reminder from Matt Smith that getting the last item in an Array is easier now:

Deploy a Site with a Build Process & a Custom Domain Name

The last part of this series is taking our site that we've got in GitHub and addng an Astro build process to it, then mapping a domain we own to the Netlify-hosted site.

Promises From The Ground Up

Josh Comeau does a great job with beginner-friendly explanations of important concepts, and Promises From The Ground Up is no exception. In a nutshell, we have Promises because we need callbacks. We need callbacks because JavaScript is single-threaded and can’t wait around for things. And so we dance. These days, you’ll see more async and […]

View Transition List Reordering (with a Kick Flip)

It's pretty straightforward to animate list items into new positions, but there is a few tricks when the specific one you've chosen to move needs a *different* transition.

blur(1px) blur(1px)

I know that you can “chain” the CSS property filter, like: All three of those filters will apply. But somehow I never thought about applying the same filter more than once. That also works, and they don’t override each other, they “stack” (or whatever you want to call it). So here’s some useless bar trivia […]

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Satisfies in TypeScript

The `satisfies` keyword allows you to assert that a certain value

CSS Gap Decorations

Microsoft is working on “gap decorations” and have put together a nice playground to explore them, and I had a play. The idea is drawing lines where gaps would be, rather than empty space. It’s really quite well done with lots of control (do they hit the edges or stop short? do they overlap or […]

Custom Select (that comes up from the bottom on mobile)

You've got A LOT of control over the design of select menus now, and it can be done as a progressive enhancement.

Step Gradients with a Given Number of Steps

A deep dive into producing an interpolated

Iterator Helpers Supported Across all Browsers

Feels notable that Iterator helpers have become Baseline Newly available. The gist is that you can map and filter on stuff that was annoying or impossible to before. I’ll copy Jeremy Wagner’s example:

Quantity Query Carousel

:has() makes quantities queries both easier and more powerful. We can alter how a grid is laid out and where the children go. Or, we can just blast it into a carousel.

What Is Developer Advocacy? (2025 Edition)

I thought Ashley Willis did an excellent job explaining the role in What Is Developer Advocacy? (2025 Edition). We’re still here to serve developers. And we’re still doing the messy, meaningful work of bridging the gap between what a company thinks developers want and what developers actually need. I liked the perspective that it’s actually better for […]

Understanding CSS corner-shape and the Power of the Superellipse

The CSS corner-shape property (very new! only in Chrome Canary!) is useful in basic use cases, for advanced shape making, and the superellipse() function is *extra* powerful.

Import Assertions use “with” not “assert” anymore.

I was trying to play with CSS Module Scripts the other day, which are a way to import CSS as a constructable stylesheet using the ESModules syntax. They are Chrome-only so not really something we can generally use (unless you’re building an Electron app or something), but I really like the idea of being able […]

Drawing CSS Shapes using corner-shape

After you've got a `border-radius`, you can control the shape of the corner with `corner-shape`, which unlocks a simpler and more powerful way to make shapes compared to `clip-path()`.

Scope in CSS

We've got @scope in CSS now, and it's got it's uses. But the concept of scope in CSS is a wider idea.

You’re not a front-end developer until you’ve…

A fun list post from Nic Chan where you check off the funny/sad/proud/weird things we do as front-end developers. I don’t know if a higher score is better, but it certainly means you’ve been around the block. I doubt you’ll be able to resist poking around Nic’s site, it’s really fun.

Grainy Gradients

This is about reducing banding effects in gradients by introducing noise. A nice approach is a displacement map using SVG filters.

Jake Archibald on Native HTML Includes

There was a lot of interest in our Why Can’t HTML Alone Do Includes? article. I’d like to point you to my ShopTalk Show conversation where we really get into things more with Jake Archibald.

1fr 1fr vs auto auto vs 50% 50%

There are several different ways to do equal width columns. But some are, uh, more equal than others.

Cursed Knowledge

Fun idea from the team at Immich: Cursed knowledge we have learned as a result of building Immich that we wish we never knew. Stuff like: Fetch requests in Cloudflare Workers use http by default, even if you explicitly specify https, which can often cause redirect loops.

Scroll-Driven Letter Grid

scroll-timelines go from 0 to 100. Many variable fonts axis have similar ranges, like 100 to 900. Surely that's begging for interplay.

The Height Enigma

You might as well really understand height and Josh Comeau has your back here. It’s really quite different than width and perhaps less intuitive. Plus when grid and flexbox get involved, things change.

firstChild can be white space

Just a tiny gotcha.

SVG to shape()

We’ve been trying to make the point around here that the new shape() in CSS is awesome. It’s the powerful <path> in SVG ported to CSS so it can use actual units. It’s probably how path() should have ported to begin with, but c’est la vie. I’ll make the point in this demo. Resize those […]