If your first language is written left to right, you might be surprised to learn that some languages are written the opposite way. Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, and others flow from right to left. That can be an interesting fact to learn about…
The web platform evolves. When it does, other tech has to catch up, and not just LLMs. Another one is TypeScript types. Philip Walton explains: For example, here’s an error I got just the other day when trying to use element-scoped view…
I’ve written about Vercel’s AI SDK and AI Gateway before. That post covered the basics of setting up an account in the AI Gateway (or directly in a provider of your choice), and making requests against an AI model while constraining the…
Let me show you what I saw that started my brain turning: This is from the website of the podcast The Midnight Rebellion on WBUR. It’s a cute little crab that walks around on the top of an element! I love it! It reminded me of a very cool…
Kevin Powell is doing game-show-style (specifically Family Feud) shorts where, using data from a survey of 100 devs, he asks another dev what the most popular answers were. Here’s: Adam Argyle guessing the most popular frameworks Alex Trost…
Solo is one of my favorite new tools. I heard about it recently from its creator, Aaron Francis, while at a conference he was emceeing. Solo’s website describes it as a Meta-harness for coding agents, but I don’t think that does the project…
If you’ve got an HDR display, and use Chrome 137+ or Safari 26+ (even on iOS), perhaps you’ve seen images sometimes with colors that are so bright they seem to dim the rest of the screen. I find it a bit distracting, but I can see how it…
The dark mode is an accessibility feature for me. I’m prone to splitting headaches from bright lights like the glaring screens of personal devices. Blue-light-filtering glasses and eye drops don’t work for me. Only dimness does. In the…
I had a situation where I wanted to highlight an arbitrary element on a page. Like, call attention to it briefly. There is a pretty obvious and straightforward way to do this. We could apply an inset style box-shadow to whatever, and that…
Jake has a very nice, clear video about what text-box solves in CSS. It essentially makes even padding on an element (like a button) doable without magic numbers, and that will work across any font (sick). Temani made a tool to help pick…
In a previous article, calculated a few values for a responsive grid such as the number of columns, the number of rows, and the coordinates of the grid items. Knowing that each item is automatically placed and spans only one row and one…