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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…
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It’s a little surreal watching Kevin recap the current CSS-Tricks situation. It’s been rollercoastery after DigitalOcean’s acquisition. Thoughts: DigitalOcean bought the site. They can do whatever they want with it. At the very least, I…
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Web Dev • Stop Layout Shifts: Add width and height to Your Images • Where AI-Generated Design Breaks UX Laws • FP Jargon — Jargon from the functional programming world in simple terms! • How to build a scraping tool • TypeScript Tricks…
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Banjo, guitar, drums, trees, n' mountains. Chris and I met halfway between our homes to jam. We met at a tiny campsite, where we hoped the lack of amenities would mean no neighbors. It worked. We were the only campers at the site, which…
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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…
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What? Axe-con ’27: The world’s largest digital accessibility event. Where? At your computer. When? February 23-27, 2027 Who? Me! I’m a keynote speaker along with Jennison Asuncion, Co-Founder of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)…
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I’ve been rocking an LG monitor that has noticeable burn-in. The old dog takes a while to flicker into life too. I’ve had it around eight years (the Dell before it lasted ten). I think the monitor is too dumb to be spying on me but I’m due…
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You’ll miss publishers when they’re gone Yet again, the industry has been let down by DigitalOcean and their abandonment of CSS-Tricks. It's time to step up and protect publishers whose goal is simply, to educate and share knowledge. It’s…
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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…
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I think I bought this thing at some grocery store endcap or something. The magic is that it can do all three advocotasks: Cut avocado in half (little knife thing) Take out the pit (little indent with teeth thing) Cut avocado halves into…
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Now that we can better customise <select> elements, it's only natural to side-eye other form <input> types that have caused us visual headaches. Sure, we should be applying the lightest of touches to form elements, especially, but even with…
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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…
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The commerical airport we use here in Bend, Oregon is actually in Redmond, Oregon. Flights from here generally depart very early. It think it’s because they need to make it to bigger airports to make connections to further-away places…
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To be completely honest with you, I missed the news when CSS Container Queries first shipped. And when I finally heard about it, my very first thought was, “Why exactly do I need this when media queries already exist?” I’m not proud of that…
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CSS Curiosities of the Past — A wonderful tour of the non-standard CSS quirks developers used to make browsers behave, especially Internet Explorer . Covers the 'star hack', CSS expressions (JavaScript in your CSS!), IE's DirectX filters…
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Start a blog! It’s great! You’ll learn more than you think! As I am traveling on my way to NDC Oslo, I started to write this post… tomorrow, my blog turns 5 years old. I recently posted two articles in a short amount of time, and for this…
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