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• Unsuck It | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)
  Julia Carrie Wong and Matthew Cantor's How to speak Silicon Valley: 53 essential tech-bro terms explained was pretty hilarious.
• Responsive Iframes | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)
  This is all the stuff you need to do to make an iframe responsive on a website. It's trickier than it looks and CSS is definitely involved.
• Finally... A Post on Finally in Promises | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)
  “When does finally fire in a Java Script promise?” This is a question I was asked in a recent workshop and I thought I’d write up a little…
• Weekly news: Truncating muti-line text, calc() in custom property values, Contextual Alternates (Css Tricks)
  In this week's roundup, WebKit's method for truncating multi-line text gets some love, a note on calculations using custom properties, and…
• What the Web Needs Now (and how ARTIFACT is here for it) (Css Tricks)
  I started ARTIFACT back in 2013 with Christopher Schmitt and Ari Stiles (the team behind the legendary In Control and CSS Dev conferences).
• What I Like About Vue (Css Tricks)
  Dave Rupert digs into some of his favorite Vue features and one particular issue that he has with React: I’ve come to realize one thing I d…
• Don't comma-separate :focus-within if you need deep browser support (Css Tricks)
  It's a super useful selector that allows you to essentially select a parent element when any of its children are in focus.
• Micro Frontends (Css Tricks)
  One random day not long ago, I started hearing joke after joke about "micro frontends" — sort of how I first learned about Toast.
• Build a Chat App Using React Hooks in 100 Lines of Code (Css Tricks)
  We’ve looked at React Hooks before, around here at CSS-Tricks.
• Using Cypress to Write Tests for a React Application (Css Tricks)
  End-to-end tests are written to assert the flow of an application from start to finish.
• CSS Animation Libraries (Css Tricks)
  There are an awful lot of libraries that want to help you animate things on the web.
• Zoom, CORS, and the Web (Css Tricks)
  It's sorta sad by funny that that big Zoom vulnerability thing was ultimately related to web technology and not really the app itself.
• CSS :not() with Multiple Classes (Css Tricks)
  body:not(.home) { } But what if there are multiple classes you want to avoid? body:not(.home):not(.away):not(.page-50) { } The :not() selec…
• My Favorite Netlify Features (Css Tricks)
  Silvestar pitched this post to us because he is genuinely enthusiastic about JAMstack and all of the opportunities it opens up for front-en…
• Clever Polypane Debugging Features I'm Loving (Css Tricks)
  I'm working on a refresh of my personal website, what I'm calling the HD remaster. Well, I wouldn't call it a "full" redesign.
• Position Sticky and Table Headers (Css Tricks)
  But you can sticky a , which means you can make sticky headers inside a regular ol’ .
• Pseudo-Randomly Adding Illustrations with CSS | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)
  It definitely helps me understand what something like (2 n+1) means in English. You can type in any string you like and see what effect tha…
• System UIcons (Css Tricks)
  This is a great collection of icons by Corey Ginnivan that’s both free and with no attribution required when you use them.
• The failed promise of Web Components (Css Tricks)
  Perusing the components on webcomponents.org fills me with anxiety, and I’m perfectly comfortable writing JS — I write JS for a living!
• CSS Hell | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)
  Collection of common CSS mistakes, and how to fix them From Stefánia Péter. Some of them are little mind-twisters that could bite you, and…
• Creating Color Themes With Custom Properties, HSL, and a Little calc() (Css Tricks)
  Before the advent of CSS custom properties (we might call them “variables” in this article as that’s the spirit of them), implementing mult…
• Server-Side React Rendering (Css Tricks)
  React is best known as a client-side JavaScript framework, but did you know you can (and perhaps should!) render React server-side?
• Svelte for the Experienced React Dev (Css Tricks)
  I’ll provide a quick introduction, and then shift focus to things like state management and DOM interoperability, among other things.
• Multiple Class / ID and Class Selectors (Css Tricks)
  Can you spot the difference between these two selectors?
• Scaling Organizations Should Consider Building a Website Backed by a CRM Platform (Css Tricks)
  To make some terminology clear here: - CMS = Content Management System - CRM = Customer Relationship Management Both are essentially databa…
• Develop, Preview, Test (Css Tricks)
  I want to make the case that prioritizing end-to-end (E2 E) testing for the critical parts of your app will reduce risk and give you the be…
• 4 Ways to Animate the Color of a Text Link on Hover (Css Tricks)
  Let’s create a pure CSS effect that changes the color of a text link on hover… but slide that new color in instead of simply swapping color…
• Some Things You Oughta Know When Working with Viewport Units (Css Tricks)
  David Chanin has a quickie article summarizing a problem with setting an element’s height to 100 vh in mobile browsers and then also positi…
• Jetpack Boost Handles Critical CSS For You (Css Tricks)
  Critical CSS is one of those things I see in my performance reports but always seem to ignore.
• Every Website is an Essay (Css Tricks)
  Every website that’s made me oooo and aaahhh lately has been of a special kind; they’re written and designed like essays.
• Computed Values: More Than Meets the Eye (Css Tricks)
  Browser DevTools are indispensable for us front end developers.
• CSS-Only Marquee Effect (Css Tricks)
  You make sure the text is more than twice the width of the screen, then use negative translate animations to do the marquee movement.
• How We Created a Static Site That Generates Tartan Patterns in SVG (Css Tricks)
  Tartan is a patterned cloth that’s typically associated with Scotland, particularly their fashionable kilts.
• CSS Houdini Could Change the Way We Write and Manage CSS (Css Tricks)
  CSS Houdini may be the most exciting development in CSS.
• Unprefixed `appearance ` (Css Tricks)
  It's interesting how third-parties are sometimes super involved in pushing browser things forward.
• Are Custom Properties a "Menu of What Will Change"? (Css Tricks)
  PPK laid out an interesting situation in “Two options for using custom properties” where he and Stefan Judis had two different approaches f…
• Images are hard. (Css Tricks)
  Putting images on websites is incredibly simple, yes?
• Defining “View Source” (Css Tricks)
  Last time there was a little flurry of activity around the concept of “View Source,” I did get the sense that not everyone was on the same…
• Two-Value Display Syntax (and Sometimes Three) (Css Tricks)
  You know the single-value syntax: .thing { display: block; }. There are lots of single values for display.
• The Cost of Javascript Frameworks | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)
  I expect this post from Tim Kadlec to be quoted in every performance conference talk for the next few years.
• Neal.fun | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)
  Hats off to Neal Agarwal for some stellar interactive work lately, like The Deep Sea, a vertical scrolling experience to help us understand…
• Should DevTools teach the CSS cascade? (Css Tricks)
  Stefan Judis, two days before I mouthed off about using (X, X, X, X) for talking about specificity, has a great blog post not only using th…
• Netlify Background Functions (Css Tricks)
  As quickly as I can: - AWS Lambda is great: it allows you to run server-side code without really running a server.
• React Authentication & Access Control (Css Tricks)
  Authentication and access control are required for most applications, but they often distract us from building core features.
• Did You Know the Ordered List Element Has Start and Reversed Attributes? (Css Tricks)
  Tomek Sułkowsi shows how we can reverse the numbering of ordered lists with a simple HTML attribute: Apple Banana Pear And the start attrib…
• How to Create Stunning Effects With 165 Media Queries or Less! (Css Tricks)
  One bizarre trend emerging in this new RWD era is desktop-browsing web designers resizing their browsers to watch the break-points change t…
• Web Engine Diversity and Ecosystem Health (Css Tricks)
  As front-end developers, our job is working with browsers. Knowing how many we have and the health of them is always of great interest.
• Components: Server-Side vs. Client-Side (Css Tricks)
  I’m guessing you’re going to take a component-driven approach.
• Debugging iOS Safari (Css Tricks)
  These are my general steps, starting with not even using iOS Safari. Lemme just use the device mode in Chrome quick.
• Favicons Next To External Links (Css Tricks)
  A couple of techniques and food for thought around the idea of adding a favicon next to links on websites.