Cursed Knowledge

By Chris Coyier on

Fun idea from the team at Immich: Cursed knowledge we have learned as a result of building Immich that we wish we never knew. Stuff like: Fetch requests in Cloudflare Workers use http by default, even if you explicitly specify https, which can often cause redirect loops.

The Height Enigma

By Chris Coyier on

You might as well really understand height and Josh Comeau has your back here. It’s really quite different than width and perhaps less intuitive. Plus when grid and flexbox get involved, things change.

SVG to shape()

By Chris Coyier on

We’ve been trying to make the point around here that the new shape() in CSS is awesome. It’s the powerful <path> in SVG ported to CSS so it can use actual units. It’s probably how path() should have ported to begin with, but c’est la vie. I’ll make the point in this demo. Resize those […]

Out-of-your-face AI

By Chris Coyier on

A very interesting aspect of the AI smashing its way into every software product known to man, is how it’s integrated. What does it look like? What does it do? Are we allowed to control it? UX patterns are evolving around this. In coding tools, I’ve felt the bar being turned up on “anticipate what […]

P3 in Color Inputs

By Chris Coyier on

I just complained that color inputs couldn’t deal in P3 colors. Looks like Safari is the first-mover on supporting that, as well as alpha: I was able to make a quick demo and see it on iOS: Under the Sliders tab, it’s still just R G & B, but it seems to me you can […]