Chris Coyier

It maintains space for where a scrollbar would be, whether there actually is one or not. But do you always want that?

I think it’s cool our industry has these high quality documentaries documenting the stories behind some of the transformative tech in what we do. The Vite one just came out about a month ago. What would you pick if you could pick the next one? I wouldn’t mind hearing about early-days AWS or Docker. Maybe […]

Dan Abramov has an interesting article How to Fix Any Bug where he’s having Claude write the code, but a bug shows up he needs to fix. Claude just isn’t getting it and it keeps saying it’s fixed when it isn’t (classic). Claude was repeatedly wrong because it didn’t have a repro. Meaning Claude couldn’t see […]

Just a simple link tag in HTML can point to an online wallet to take payments, and a JavaScript API to react to them. But it’s (still) early days.

Paul Smith made these Classic Mac OS System 1 Patterns, which are super tiny (in size) graphics that work with background-repeat to make old school “textures”. They have an awfully nostalgic look for me, but they are so simple I can see them being useful in modern designs as well.

A satisfying little rant from Justin Fagnani: Stop Using CustomEvent. One point is that you’re forcing the consumer of the event to know that it’s custom and you have to get data out of the details property. Instead, you can subclass Event with new properties and the consumer of that event can pull that data […]

There is quite a bit of interesting design possibility with `random()` coming to CSS. It pairs nicely with animation, particularly animation-composition for agumenting those generated values.

Alex MacArthur shows us there are a lot of ways to break up long tasks in JavaScript. Seven ways, in this post. That’s a senior developer thing: knowing there are lots of different ways to do things all with different trade-offs. Depending on what you need to do, you can hone in on a solution.

Probably worth keeping an eye on Vite+ (still in “early access”). They say it’s “everything you’ve been duct-taping together” which feels actually kinda fair when you consider this has “dev, build, test, lint, format, monorepo caching & more in a single dependency.” So even if you’re using Vite anyway, perhaps you’d get to ditch Jest […]

I saw Tony Conway & Jeremy Wagner’s post on web.dev, Use Baseline with Browserslist, and I had a little play with it myself (saved live stream). Allow me to write down what I know and what I learned. So here’s Browserslist. Browserslist is the developer community at it’s best. There are a bunch of tools […]