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• The Mobile Performance Inequality Gap (Css Tricks)
  Alex Russell made some interesting notes about performance and how it impacts folks on mobile: […] CPUs are not improving fast enough to co…
• Creating Custom Form Controls with ElementInternals (Css Tricks)
  Ever since the dawn of time, humanity has dreamed of having more control over form elements.
• A CSS Approach to Trap Focus Inside of an Element (Css Tricks)
  I recently read this article by Keith Grant which introduced the newly arrived .
• How to Make a Monthly Calendar With Real Data (Css Tricks)
  For something like that, it might be natural to reach for a plugin, or even an embedded Google Calendar, but it’s actually a lot more strai…
• A little bit of plain Javascript can do a lot (Css Tricks)
  I decided to implement almost all of the UI by just adding & removing CSS classes, and using CSS transitions if I want to animate a transit…
• Generate a Random Number (Css Tricks)
  For the last two book giveaways I did, I promised I would pick a winner totally at random from the comments.
• Building a hexagonal grid using CSS grid (Css Tricks)
  I think of grids as arrangements of rectangles with vertical and horizontal lines running through.
• Why would you do that in CSS? (Css Tricks)
  Not only are all these graphics drawn in just HTML and CSS, they are all created with (you guessed it) a single .
• Optimizing Image Depth (Css Tricks)
  Something I learned (or, I guess, re-learned) this year is how important it is to pay close attention to the bit depth of images.
• Get the Best Domain Name for your New Website (Css Tricks)
  If you're on CSS-Tricks, we can probably bet that you're in the process of building a really cool website.
• Painting With the Web (Css Tricks)
  Matthias Ott, comparing how painter Gerhard Richter paints (do stuff, step back, take a look) to what can be the website building process a…
• Laying the Foundations (Css Tricks)
  Here’s a new book by Andrew Couldwell all about design systems and I’m looking forward to reading the book because it looks like his experi…
• Flash's Web Tech Legacy (Css Tricks)
  Brown on how Flash paved the way for some things we might think of as fairly modern web technologies: Flash wasn’t just good for playing mu…
• Some Recent Videos About Websites That Are Pretty Good (Css Tricks)
  Here's a little hodgepodge of videos I've recently bookmarked (and watched).
• Block Links: The Search for a Perfect Solution (Css Tricks)
  I was reading this article by Chris where he talks about block links — you know, like wrapping an entire card element inside an anchor — be…
• When Using !important is The Right Choice | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)
  Using !important rules can be a dangerous road to start going down, but they exist for a reason.
• Different Approaches to Responsive CSS Motion Path (Css Tricks)
  As a follow-up to Jhey’s recent post on responsive motion paths, Michelle Barker notes that another approach could be to just transform: sc…
• Stream-Crossing Confusion (Css Tricks)
  These are tongue-in-cheek, but there is a point to be made here.
• Demonstrating Reusable React Components in a Form (Css Tricks)
  Components are the building blocks of React applications. It’s almost impossible to build a React application and not make use of component…
• ShopTalk Patreon (Css Tricks)
  Dave and I launched a Patreon for ShopTalk Show.
• An Intro to Web Site Testing with Cypress (Css Tricks)
  End-to-end testing is awesome because it mirrors the user’s experience.
• Serious Form Security (Css Tricks)
  The Website Change Request Form has been a running topic around here for a little while and I'm gonna run with that for a little while.
• Advice for Technical Writing (Css Tricks)
  In advance of a recent podcast with the incredible technical writer and Smashing Magazine editor-in-chief Rachel Andrew, I gathered up a bu…
• Make Your Own Dev Tool (Css Tricks)
  Amber Wilson on making bookmarklets to help yo-self.
• Replace the Image in an with CSS (Css Tricks)
  The following is a guest post by Marcel Shields.
• Some CSS Grid Strategies for Matching Design Mockups (Css Tricks)
  The world of web development has always had a gap between the design-to-development handoff.
• Automatic Daily GitHub Backups, Restored in Seconds (Css Tricks)
  Any company that uses GitHub for critical applications needs a backup that can be restored quickly when needed.
• My Visual Studio Code Setup: Extensions and Themes (Css Tricks)
  Matthias Ott's posted his VS Code setup.
• Where should "Subscribe to Podcast" link to? | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)
  It’s a web URL anyway, so it will work for anyone and has information about the podcast, as well as a list of recent shows you can even lis…
• Converting and Optimizing Images From the Command Line (Css Tricks)
  Images take up to 50% of the total size of an average web page. And if images are not optimized, users end up downloading extra bytes.
• Strategies for Keeping CSS Specificity Low (Css Tricks)
  Keeping CSS specificity low across all the selectors in your project is a worthy goal. It's generally a sign that things are in relative ha…
• Mars Theme: A Deep Look at Frontity’s Headless WordPress Theme (Css Tricks)
  Frontity is a framework for creating de-coupled (or "headless") WordPress sites.
• Position Vertical Scrollbars on Opposite Side with CSS (Css Tricks)
  Fair warning: I can’t say I recommend this in general because it breaks a very strong expectation of where scrollbars are, which are useful…
• Refreshing Sidebar for 2020 (Css Tricks)
  I like how it goes even deeper with the sticky elements than the last design.
• Serverless Functions: The Secret to Ultra-Productive Front-End Teams (Css Tricks)
  Modern apps put high demands on frontend devs. Use serverless functions to avoid complexity & helps your team ship more with less stress.
• Comparing Data in Google and Netlify Analytics (Css Tricks)
  Google Analytics works by putting a client-side bit of Java Script on your site. Netlify Analytics works by parsing server logs server-side.
• Analyzing Notion app performance (Css Tricks)
  Here’s a fantastic case study where Ivan Akulov looks at the rather popular writing app Notion and how the team might improve the performan…
• More People Dipping Toes Into Web Monetization (Css Tricks)
  I do think that Coil and Web Monetization are at the vanguard of a quiet revolution. Here’s me when I’m visiting Léonie’s site: My Coil sub…
• How They Fit Together: Transform, Translate, Rotate, Scale, and Offset (Css Tricks)
  Firefox 72 was first out of the gate with “independent transforms.” That is, instead of having to combine transforms together, like: .el {…
• Going Buildless (Css Tricks)
  That means I’m on a plane to England every few weeks, and every time I’m on that plane, I think about how nice it would be to read some Red…
• How to delete all node_modules directories from your computer (Css Tricks)
  Nice tip from Chris Ferdinandi: My node_modules directories contained 50 mb of stuff on the small side, and over 200 mb of files in some ca…
• What does “revert” do in CSS? (Css Tricks)
  Miriam Suzanne explains in a Mozilla Developer video on the subject.
• CSS :is() and :where() are coming to browsers (Css Tricks)
  Šime Vidas with the lowdown on what these pseudo-selectors are and why they will be useful: - :is() is to reduce repetition¹ of parts of co…
• Put a Background on Open Details Elements (Css Tricks)
  One thing that can be just a smidge funky about the element is that, when open, it’s not always 100% clear what is inside that element and…
• React Integration Testing: Greater Coverage, Fewer Tests (Css Tricks)
  Integration tests are a natural fit for interactive websites, like ones you might build with React.
• The Sixth Fourth (Css Tricks)
  It's a tradition around here to do a State of the Union post on the Fourth of July.
• Comparing Browsers for Responsive Design (Css Tricks)
  There are a number of these desktop apps where the goal is showing your site at different dimensions all at the same time.
• What I Like About Writing Styles with Svelte (Css Tricks)
  There’s been a lot of well-deserved hype around Svelte recently, with the project accumulating over 24,000 GitHub stars.
• Netlify High-Fives (Css Tricks)
  We've got Netlify as a sponsor around here again this year, which is just fantastic.
• Learn Design for Developers and SVG Animation with Sarah Drasner ✨💖 | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)
  Hey, Marc here from Frontend Masters — excited to support CSS-Tricks ❤️!