Bringing Back Parallax With Scroll-Driven CSS Animations 🔗
Parallax is a pattern in which different elements of a webpage move at varying speeds as the user scrolls, creating a three-dimensional, layered appea [...]
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Thinking Deeply About Theming and Color Naming 🔗
Today, I want to discuss a couple of patterns for naming color palettes that the community is using, and how I propose we can improve, so we achieve b [...]
Keeping Article Demos Alive When Third-Party APIs Die 🔗
Is there a way to build demos that do not break when the services they rely on fail? How can we ensure educational demos stay available for as long as [...]
Making a Masonry Layout That Works Today 🔗
I went on to figure out how make masonry work today with other browsers. I'm happy to report I've found a way — and, bonus! — that support can be prov [...]
How to Discover a CSS Trick 🔗
Do we invent or discover CSS tricks? Lee Meyer discusses how creative limitations, recursive thinking, and unexpected combinations lead to his most in [...]
Atomic Design Certification Course 🔗
Brad Frost introduced the “Atomic Design” concept wayyyy back in 2013. He even wrote a book on it. And we all took notice, because that term has been [...]
A First Look at the Interest Invoker API (for Hover-Triggered Popovers) 🔗
Chrome 139 is experimenting with Open UI’s proposed Interest Invoker API, which would be used to create tooltips, hover menus, hover cards, quick acti [...]
A Primer on Focus Trapping 🔗
Focus trapping is about managing focus within an element, such that focus always stays within it. The whole process sounds simple in theory, but it ca [...]
Getting Creative With Versal Letters 🔗
A versal letters is a typographic flourish found in illuminated manuscripts and traditional book design, where it adds visual interest and helps guide [...]
Getting Clarity on Apple’s Liquid Glass 🔗
Gathered notes on Liquid Glass, Apple’s new design language that was introduced at WWDC 2025. These links are a choice selection of posts and resource [...]
What I Took From the State of Dev 2025 Survey 🔗
State of Devs 2025 survey results are out! Sunkanmi Fafowora highlights a few key results about diversity, health, and salaries. What I Took From the [...]
Setting Line Length in CSS (and Fitting Text to a Container) 🔗
The many ways to juggle line length when working with text... including two proposed properties that could make it easier in the future. Setting Line [...]
Scroll-Driven Sticky Heading 🔗
I was playing around with scroll-driven animations, just searching for all sorts of random things you could do. That’s when I came up with the idea to [...]
The Layout Maestro Course 🔗
Layout. It’s one of those easy-to-learn, difficult-to-master things, like they say about playing bass. Not because it’s innately difficult to, say, pl [...]
Better CSS Shapes Using shape() — Part 4: Close and Move 🔗
The shape() function's close and move commands may not be ones you reach for often, but are incredibly useful for certain shapes. Better CSS Shapes Us [...]