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Browserslist & Baseline
I saw Tony Conway & Jeremy Wagner’s post on web.dev, Use Baseline with Browserslist, and I had a little play with it myself (saved live stream). Allow me to write down what I know and what I learned. So here’s Browserslist. Browserslist is the developer community at it’s best. There are a bunch of tools […]
A person at the other end
Code is ephemeral. What works right now might get deleted next month. That is no judgement on the code, it is a statement that code isn’t the value prop, the product is. I try and remember this during code review, because even though we call it code review, there is a person at the other […]
Perfectly Pointed Tooltips: To The Corners
With our foundation in positioning and flipping tooltips with anchors, and making pointer tails, we're going to get extra tricky and point them diagonally.
Staggered Animation with CSS sibling-* Functions
The new CSS sibling-index() (and -count()) functions are perfect for staggered timing affects. This goes a little step further staggering both before and after a selected element.
The Scope Creep
The Scope Creep: Pretty fun(ny) Choose Your Own Adventure style game Assume the role of a humble project manager, tasked with delivering a website brief for one of your agency’s clients. Unbeknownst to you, the project is cursed by a dark force determined to infinitely extend the job, and send you into a delirious state […]
The Weird Parts of position: sticky;
There are a number of things that can rain on your sticky parade. Maybe it's time to actually understand why.
Affinity, Free
When people complain about Photoshop or other various Adobe products and the subscription model they require (The Onion had a good one), people tend to reply with two options: But now, Affinity is free (and all the varieties combined into one app). You can thank the Canva acquisition for that. You might think that would […]
Perfectly Pointed Tooltips: All Four Sides
Tooltips are a natural fit for the abilities of Anchor Positioning, which can help place them on *any* side or corner. It does make dealing with the pointer extra tricky though.
Super Simple Full-Bleed & Breakout Styles
Having a width-limited centered column of content is common and good, but what do you do when you need to break out? It's not hard these days, but it does depend on the situation.
View Transitions Feature Explorer
It’s a generally good thing to know that browser support for browser features isn’t always quite a simple as yes or no. There can be sub-features involved as things evolve that roll out in browsers at different times. View Transitions is an example of that going on right now. There are “Same-Document View Transitions” supported […]
Junior Dev Tip: “Scroll Up”
Alex Riviere shares a quick story of a junior developer not looking in the right places for error messaging that would directly help them. … the tools do provide you with information most of the time. You genuinely just need to take a few extra seconds and read what it is saying.
Perfectly Pointed Tooltips: A Foundation
The Anchor Positioning API in CSS is very powerful. This is the beginning of a series where we understand it through the perfect use-case: tooltips.
chrome-devtools-mcp
I’m no expert here, but I understand an “MCP server” as a way to make an AI system a bit “smarter” by having more context and capabilities. I find AI coding agents pretty darn smart already particularly when they have your entire codebase and your instruction for context. But if you’re using it to build […]
Introducing TanStack Start Middleware
TanStack Start is one of the most exciting full-stack web development frameworks I’ve seen. I’ve written about it before. In essence, TanStack Start takes TanStack Router, a superb, strongly-typed client-side JavaScript framework, and adds server-side support. This serves two purposes: it gives you a place to execute server-side code, like database access; and it enables […]
closedby=”any”
I’m just hearing about the closedby=
For Your Convenience, This CSS Will Self-Destruct
In A Progressive Enhancement Challenge, I laid out a situation where the hardest thing to do is show a button you never want to show at all if the JavaScript loads and executes properly. I wrote of this state: It seems like the ideal behavior would be “hide the interactive element for a brief period, […]
The Two Button Problem
When you've got two buttons with two different looks (and no cursor), how do you know which one you're about to activate? You'll need to be careful with the design.
Browser Speech Input & Output Buttons
All sorts of inputs have little microphone buttons within them that you can press to talk instead of type. Honestly, I worry my daughter will never learn to type because of them. But I get it from a UX perspective, it’s convenient. We can put those in our web apps, too. Pamela Fox has an […]
50 Reasons to Build a Website
Should have done 150.
Why JavaScript variables don’t always update
I liked this bit of JavaScript trivia from Cassidy Williams. There is a clear answer, and it’s something worth making sure you understand before heading into a job interview that involves JavaScript.
A11Y Linting HTML with CSS
Will Mendes has a bit of CSS to highlight accessibility issues on HTML elements. Things like missing alt text and labels that aren’t linked properly to inputs. If you want to try it out quick on a website, I wrapped it in a little injection JavaScript so you could paste it in the console wherever. […]