Favicon emoji

How you can turn any emoji into a favicon.svg.

LCH colors in CSS: what, why, and how?

Let’s get access to about 50% more colors!

Today’s Javascript, from an outsider’s perspective

The unfriendliness of the modern JavaScript ecosystem to newcomers.

A user’s guide to CSS variables

The revolutionary possibilities for collaboration and code reuse.

Hybrid positioning with CSS variables and max()

Another great demo of the power of CSS custom properties.

Parsel

A tiny, permissive CSS selector parser.

The failed promise of Web Components

Let’s rethink our way of authoring and distributing web components.

The -​-var: ; hack to toggle multiple values with one custom property

Horrible hack, useful technique, or both?

The case for Weak Dependencies in JS

Why can’t we have progressively enhanced JavaScript?

Web Almanac 2020: CSS

The current state of mastering the craft of CSS.

How the web is really built

Based on user numbers, old tech is far ahead of new tech.

Dark mode in 5 minutes, with inverted lightness variables

How to build a basic dark mode with CSS custom properties.

CSS custom properties with defaults: 3+1 strategies

Best practices on setting initial values for your custom properties.

Releasing Color.js

A JavaScript library to deal with colors in a wide variety of color spaces.

“Hamburger menus on desktop websites: ‘Mobile first’ doesn’t mean ‘mobile-only.’ You have all this space – use it!”

rety

A library to record your live coding and make it replayable.

The State of CSS 2022

Results of the annual developer survey about the latest trends in CSS.

Minimalist affordances

Simplicity in design can hurt UX if you go too far.

Eigensolutions

Composability as the antidote to overfitting.

Specificity battle

Which CSS selector takes precedence over the other?

State of HTML 2023

What developers expect from HTML in the future.

On compliance vs. readability

Can CSS already make text readable on any background?

Inline conditionals in CSS?

The W3C CSS WG agreed to add an inline if() to CSS.

Web components are not framework components

“Stop fighting and go make awesome sh!t.”