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New Sep 9, 2024
Chris’ Corner: Open Sniped
Recently Heikki Lotvonen cooked up a very cool idea: what if the colorization of code output on the web could be handled by the font itself. Syntax highlighting, as it were. So rather than accomplish...
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New Aug 26, 2024
Chris’ Corner: Gold Star CSS Bloggers
CSS still gives me the warm fuzzies sometimes. We’ve gotten so many amazing CSS features the past few years, that each alone makes me happy. But when those features are combined, I’m often...
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New Aug 19, 2024
Chris’ Corner: Filtering
We updated the Your Work section of CodePen recently. See, it used to have a dropdown menu like this that we labelled “View”: This allowed you to scope down the Pens you were looking at...
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New Aug 19, 2024
Exploring 21 Unique Custom Cursors for Your Site
Microinteractions play an role in creating engaging and intuitive user experiences. These subtle animations and feedback can guide users, provide valuable information, and make interactions more...
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New Aug 5, 2024
Chris’ Corner: Here’s some things you should know
Fine fine fine, here’s some things you could know if you were hip and into knowing things about building websites...
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New Jul 29, 2024
Chris’ Corner: Variables
CSS has a feature called Custom Properties. You know this. People also — somewhat interchangeably — refer to these as CSS variables. Somehow, that doesn’t bother me, even though I tend to be a...
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New Jul 15, 2024
Chris’ Corner: Design Shrinking
While I don’t think you should publish to Medium (at least not as the only place you publish something, you should write on your own site that you control), I get why other people do. You...
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New Jul 8, 2024
Chris’ Corner: Incremental Adoption
One of the reasons I can’t stop thinking about native Web Components is how you can use them anywhere. “Incremental adoption” is the fancy phrase, I suppose. We’ve even started...
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New Jun 24, 2024
Chris’ Corner: Esoteric Stuff in CSS
Listen I ain’t trying to scare you, but this CSS stuff can get complicated. It doesn’t have to be. CSS is just selectors with key value pairs in the end. The vast majority of CSS I write...
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Jun 17, 2024
Chris Corner: Git it
Julia Evans has released what she’s saying is one of her most popular zines to date: How Git Works. I don’t think you’d regret reading it. I imagine most of us get by with knowing...
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Jun 10, 2024
Chris’ Corner: Let’s Look at Type!
Dan Mall has my favorite post on picking a typeface. I’m no master typographer, but I know enough that I don’t want to be talked to like an absolute beginner where you teach me what a...
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Jun 3, 2024
Chris’ Corner: A Variety of Ways to Fail
I’ve done a decent amount of accessibility work in the past few months, largely thanks to a nice fellow who uses JAWS and seems to enjoy our sessions together testing various bits of CodePen,...