Repeating Square Dots Backgrounds in CSS
We look at a couple of ways to essentially draw a little square dot in a slightly larger area and let it repeat, giving us a nice dotted background effect.
We look at a couple of ways to essentially draw a little square dot in a slightly larger area and let it repeat, giving us a nice dotted background effect.
Nice 9-minute video from Matt Pocock (from about a year ago) introducing composites. The problem of not being able to compare objects definitely feels worth solving. Or, more accurately, fixing the issue where when compare two objects that look exactly the same, it’s still false. And that using them as keys doesn’t work. Sounds like […]
I just blogged about a niche idea for View Transitions. Here are a couple more posts that specifically use the same-page style View Transitions and have a bit more practical demos:
Let’s try a fresh take on animating focus rings around a page. Flying focus, as it were. Only instead of measuring where elements are ourselves, we’ll let View Transitions figure it out.
Matt Smith makes a lot of good points in his article about no longer chaining things in JavaScript. Just those first two code samples in the post say a lot, but stick around for all the samples and learn a little somethin’. To me, it’s the inevitability that I’m going to need to log something between the […]
A nice essay from Cam Pedersen. Clay breaks. A lot. My first few attempts collapsed on the wheel. One piece cracked in the kiln. I dropped another walking to my car. But nobody cries about it, you just start over. The clay doesn’t care. It’s just material waiting for the next idea. You’re gonna have […]
Hand-writing/maintaining a sizes attribute is just not going to happen. This is the way.
A radio button is this: Paul Hebert took at fair look at how Shadcn turns that into 45 lines of code and three imports, which in turn uses Radix which is 215 lines of code and 7 more imports. But do you get better accessibility? No, it’s arguably worse. But do you get ease of […]
It’s fine. I’m fine. I just like learning ok.
Keith Cirkel has been building some interesting and educational web games lately:
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