From Nicholas C. Zakas’s regularly interesting newsletter: The best way to work with legacy code is to approach it patiently—understand small parts, write tests, and document what you learn. My favorite line about legacy code, which I’ve probably shared too much, is when David Khourshid called it “Legendary Code”. Legacy code feels a smidge mean […]
David Bushell is very sick of the “scroll fade” effect. It’s the effect where, as you scroll down a page, elements slide into place. Often, all the elements. I agree it’s overplayed since it’s usually movement for the sake of it, not adding anything to the experience. It’s true that movement catches our eye, but […]
Safari has support for <input type=”checkbox” switch> where a normal ☑️ checkbox turns into a toggle. You don’t strictly need the browser support to get the look, as it’s weirdly easy to replicate (based on idea from Richard Keizer). But Thomas Steiner has a more comprehensive polyfill if you want it to behave more exactly […]
Turns out `anchor-scope` is pretty darn useful for button/menu setups that will appear multiple times on the same page.
All the big browser makers (and Igalia, a major contributor) dropped their timed blog posts announcing Interop 2026. I’ll link to Apple’s because I like how they used column-width on the feature list and I’m stealing that (in case you see this post directly). I’m a fan of all of it but of course I’m […]
The GOAT JavaScript library jQuery has gone 4.0 coinciding with, from what I hear, was a lovely reunion party. It’s not wildly different, but it’s gone full ESM and dropped a bunch of old stuff. Minified and gzipped it’s 27.6 kB. Version 3.7.1, the last before this release, was 30.5 kB — so it’s nice […]
I ran across this website Very Good Components the other day and thought it was a neat idea to have a design gallery that wasn’t whole websites but individual components. They actually went a bit further and have configurable code for them. Here’s a Glowing Gradient Divider. I decided to remake it as an <hr> […]
You can style anything you want on the entire page when any given details element is open or closed.
My go-to local app image optimizer has long been ImageOptim. It’s Mac-only (and free), but they suggest alternatives for other platforms. I reach for ImageOptim usually when I want to optimize a whole bunch of images in a batch. For one-offs, you can’t do much better than Squoosh, a great progressive web app (PWA). I […]
The Canary version of React has a special component for ViewTransitions. Does it help?
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