223: Core Web Vital Tooling
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Core Web Vital ToolingCore Web Vitals is how Google measures the performance of any given site and you might’ve already heard the buzzwords like LCP, FID, and CLP. But — …
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222: A Note about Color Variables
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[Robin]: I read this post from Dave Rupert about setting color variables, using a combination of Sass vars, CSS vars, and what Dave calls “semantic theme vars.” He writes:
…Last week I got
221: Move and Replace
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[Robin]: This week I’ve been moving into a new apartment and everything is, well, to put it kindly, an absolute nightmare. There’s a rat king of cables and three laundromat’s worth of clothes on …
220: The Principle of Least Power
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Just the other day Kilian Valkohof wrote this great piece about how to create a full-bleed layout effect where an element like an image breaks out from the grid you’ve established.
Kilian shows us …
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219: Design Systems and the Black Box
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Earlier this week, I watched this fantastic talk by Ethan Marcotte about the current state of design systems and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. The part that really stuck out …
218: Web Components, Colorful Design Systems, Onboarding Animations
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Color within ConstraintsHere’s a fantastic piece by Linzi Berry about the design systems team at Lyft and how they work on their color guidelines:
…On the surface color seems simple, but getting
217: Small Changes in the Right Direction
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[Robin]: My day job is at Sentry and I’ve never worked at a place where everyone cares so intensely about the quality of the codebase and the design. But one thing that I think …
216: AVIF, Source Order Viewer, and UI frameworks
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AVIF has Landed!Big news this week: a wild new image format appears! And, as Jake Archibald writes, it’s called AVIF and it just launched in Chrome, so you can use it today …
215: The Gaps in the Web Platform
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[Robin]: In a post the other day about text stroke and CSS, Chris wrote:
Whenever I think of stroked text on the web I think: nope.
This is interesting to me because …
214: It’s a matter of CSS perspective
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CSS transforms and perspectiveOne thing I don’t see enough on the web are experiments with CSS transforms and I was reminded of this the other day when I saw this great example from …
213: Are we just moving problems around?
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[Robin]: Over the weekend I read this post by Jim Nielsen about web technologies and syntax that I really enjoyed. The gist of the post is that the latest technical achievement is not …
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212: A note about clamp()
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[Robin]: This week I want to take a closer look at the min(), max(), and clamp() functions. I keep hearing things about them but I’ve never used them in production and although …
211: drop-shadows and design inspiration
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Folding pages with CSSLet’s kick things off this week with a remarkable demo from Amit Sheen where he’s made the pages of a book animate with nothing but CSS:
The trick? Every …
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Hey hey! Chris here. When I read an article (or part of it) and think it’s interesting, I’ll often save it for sharing later. Because, well, that’s one of the things I do around …
209: details/summary hack and fancy web-book things
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Pausing a GIF with details/summaryThis is the neatest trick I’ve seen in some time. In this demo, Steve Faulkner creates a way to effectively pause a gif by wrapping the image in …
208: Notes on prototyping, the backdrop-filter CSS property, and Rough Notation
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[Robin]: This week I realized that I wasn’t solving a design problem at the right level. Here’s the scene: I found myself sat my desk, struggling to add some new features to this one …
207: Psychedelic CSS, Eleventy, and a quick guide to Emotion
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[Robin]: I found this psychedelic TikTok where an artist overlaps a collection of words on top of each other and then rotates them around the center, creating this extremely cool effect:
Whoa, right? I …
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206: CSS Flexbox Poster and the 13th Fourth
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Now available: CSS Flexbox and Grid PostersOur complete guide to flexbox is something I use on a weekly basis and it’s saved me so much confusion and heartache over the years. But now …
205: Poster Effects with CSS, Checking Accessibility with :not, and Fussy Web Design
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A Mad Magazine Fold-In Effect with just CSSThomas Park made this lovely fold-in effect that relies on no JavaScript whatsoever and only a single image:
I love posts like this that reveal something …
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204: Patterns, Developer Experience, and Complex CSS Animations
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Howdy folks!
[Robin]: This week I’ve been working on a number of refactoring projects at Sentry, where I work as a designer/front-end engineer person. The first job was focused entirely on our colors, …
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