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Creating a “Starred” Feed
21 January 2025 @ 2:21 pm
Chris wrote about “Likes” pages a long while back. The idea is rather simple: “Like” an item in your RSS reader and display it in a feed of other liked items. The little example Chris made is still really good.…
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Fancy Menu Navigation Using Anchor Positioning
17 January 2025 @ 2:57 pm
Anchor positioning can be great for little interactive effects — as Temani Afif shows off with this clever idea for a menu hover.
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Web-Slinger.css: Across the Swiper-Verse
15 January 2025 @ 3:03 pm
Lee Meyer with a super clever idea using scroll-driven animations as an interaction to "like" or "dislike" something.
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A Few Ways That Cloudways Makes Running This Site a Little Easier
14 January 2025 @ 2:49 pm
(This is a sponsored post.)
It’s probably no surprise to you that CSS-Tricks is (proudly) hosted on Cloudways, DigitalOcean’s managed hosting arm. Given both CSS-Tricks and Cloudways are part of DigitalOcean, it was just a matter of time …
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How to Wait for the sibling-count() and sibling-index() Functions
13 January 2025 @ 3:08 pm
Today, I want to look into one of those cases of impatient and how the community has waited for that feature, to be specific, two upcoming functions: sibling-count() and sibling-index().
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Tight Mode: Why Browsers Produce Different Performance Results
9 January 2025 @ 4:16 pm
I wrote a post for Smashing Magazine that was published today about this thing that Chrome and Safari have called “Tight Mode” and how it impacts page performance. I’d never heard the term until DebugBear’s Matt Zeunert mentioned it in …
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The Importance of Investing in Soft Skills in the Age of AI
6 January 2025 @ 2:58 pm
I am still an AI skeptic. The biggest risk I foresee is that if your sole responsibility is to write code, your job is at risk. It’s not time to panic, but I do see a lot of value in evolving your soft skills.
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Thank You (2024 Edition)
30 December 2024 @ 4:15 pm
I'm more thankful this time around because, last year, I didn't even get to write this post. But now that I'm back, writing this feels so, so, so good. There's a lot more gusto going into my writing when I say: thank you so very much! Let's tie a bow on this year and round up what happened around here in 2024.
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A CSS Wishlist for 2025
23 December 2024 @ 3:07 pm
2024 has been one of the greatest years for CSS: cross-document view transitions, scroll-driven animations, anchor positioning, animate to height: auto, and many others. It seems out of touch to ask, but what else do we …
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The Little Triangle in the Tooltip
20 December 2024 @ 4:31 pm
Today, I want to focus on what I'll call the little triangle in the tooltip. It receives minimal attention but it amazes you by how many ways there are to make them. Let's start with the simplest and make our way up to the not-so-simple.
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