Chris Coyier

I’m not the world’s biggest fan of LQIP’s (low quality image placeholders) generally (doing nothing other than handling aspect ratio is… fine), but I really like how much creativity it inspires. I’ve seen a ton of different approaches to it over the years, that all use different technology and all have different advantages and disadvantages. […]

Last we checked in with how the web platform was planning on helping us with “masonry” layout, it was a versus battle between “just use grid” and “make a new layout type”. Now Apple folks have an idea: a new shorthand property called item-flow. Nothing is decided here (I don’t think), but it seems very […]

Do you need it? Not really, custom properties are probably a better bet. But it still has a bit of utility and it’s fun to think about.

Jacob Voytko shares the tale of a very difficult bug to track down. It’s always interesting to get a little insight into how people go about narrowing down the scope of a bug. In this case, it narrowed all the way down to code you’d never guess would be the cause of the bug, but such […]

The fourth issue of The HTML Review is out. Wonderful writing framed by entirely different and unusual interactive interfaces, brought to you by the power of web technology. A zine come to life. Just try to pick a favorite.

Steve Yegge makes the prediction in Revenge of the junior developer that this current wave of AI “agents” that help us code with more capability than just type ahead suggestions and refactorings, like file creation, command line usage, and more, is just the fourth wave of six. The fifth is an individual developer managing multiple […]

Using hard color stops with `repeating-conic-gradient()` and the double-stop syntax, we can pretty easily create a burst background. Then get fancier.

I enjoyed this blog post from Blake Watson about a simple requirement and then going down the rabbit hole of functional programming to solve it in increasingly reusable, if mind-bending ways. By the end: Creating a function that returns a function that returns a function can get a little trippy to think about. But what […]

Chrome 135 (in Beta as I write, probably stable early April?) will have customizable select elements in it. You opt-in to it in CSS, and once you have, you can go ham on styling regular ol’ <select>, <option>, ‘n’ friends elements. Very progressive-enhancement friendly as a select without custom styling is… fine. It’s interesting and […]

Being able to control the `paint-order` in CSS means you can push the stroke behind the fill, fixing awkward issues with ruining letterform readability.