• New Jun 9, 2025

  Chris Corner: For The Sake of It

  Somebody with good taste could’ve made my website, but then it wouldn’t be mine. My website is ugly because I made it — Taylor Troesh I love weird design ideas. Probably because so much of what we...

• New Jun 2, 2025

  Chris’ Corner: Type Stuff!

  Let’s do typography...

• New May 26, 2025

  Chris’ Corner: Doing a Good Job

  This is a great story from Dan North about “The Worst Programmer I know”, Tim MacKinnon. It’s a story about measuring developer performance with metrics: We were working for a...

• New May 19, 2025

  Chris’ Corner: Design Do’s and Don’ts

  I admit I’m a sucker for “do this; don’t do that” (can’t you read the sign) blog posts when it comes to design. Screw nuance, gimme answers. Anthony Hobday has a pretty...

• New May 12, 2025

  Chris’ Corner: CSS Deep Cuts

  Sometimes we gotta get into the unglamorous parts of CSS. I mean *I* think they are pretty glamorous: new syntax, new ideas, new code doing foundational and important things. I just mean things that...

• New May 5, 2025

  Chris’ Corner: GSAP, more like FREESap

  The news is that GSAP, a hugely popular animation library on CodePen and the web writ large, is now entirely free to use thanks to their being acquired by Webflow. Thanks to Webflow GSAP is...

• New Apr 28, 2025

  Chris’ Corner: Reacting

  I was listening to Wes and Scott on a recent episode of Syntax talking about RSCs (React Server Components). I wouldn’t say it was particularly glowing. We use them here at CodePen, and will...

• New Apr 21, 2025

  Chris’ Corner: Rounded Triangle Boxes and Our Shapely Future

  I enjoyed Trys Mudford’s explanation of making rounded triangular boxes. It was a very real-world client need, and I do tend to prefer reading about technical solutions to real problems over...

• New Apr 14, 2025

  Chris’ Corner: Fairly Fresh CSS

  I joked while talking with Adam Argyle on ShopTalk the other day that there is more CSS in one of the demos we were looking at that I have in my whole CSS brain. We were looking at his Carousel...

• New Apr 7, 2025

  Chris’ Corner: 10 HTML Hits

  Love HTML? Good. It’s very lovable. One of my favorite parts is how you can screw it all up and it still it’s absolute best to render how it thinks you meant. Not a lot of other languages...

• New Mar 31, 2025

  Chris’ Corner: CSS Powered Componentry

  New CSS features help us in all sorts of different ways, but here we’re going to look at them when they power a specific type of component, or make a type of component newly possible with less...

• New Mar 24, 2025

  Chris’ Corner: The New Web Safe

  Back in the day I was a fan of the “Trebuchet MS” font. I didn’t like it large, but set fairly small I loved the look of it. Looked very website-ish — if that makes sense. Honestly,...

• New Mar 17, 2025

  Chris’ Corner: PerformanCSS

  How CSS relates to web performance is a funny dance. Some aspects are entirely negligible the vast majority of time. Some aspects are incredibly impactful and crucial to consider. For example,...

• New Mar 3, 2025

  Chris’ Corner: Color Accessibility

  I’ve been a bit sucked into the game Balatro lately. Seriously. Tell me your strategies. I enjoy playing it equally as much lately as unwinding watching streamers play it on YouTube. Balatro has...

• New Feb 24, 2025

  Chris’ Corner: onChange

  There is an awful lot of change on the web. Sometimes the languages we use to build for the web change. Some of it comes from browsers themselves changing. An awful lot of it comes from ourselves. We...

• New Feb 17, 2025

  Chris’ Corner: Accessible Takes

  Let’s do some links to accessibility information I’ve saved, recently read, and thought were useful and...

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