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Another good one from Nicholas C. Zakas this time on code portability. Here’s some choices he made for a recent projects: Portability indeed!

If you thought 2024 was packed with amazing new CSS, well, you’re right. But so is 2025 and it keeps looking bright. Check out our list of the best stuff with easy-to-reference examples.

Nice reminder about JavaScript evolving to be more useful from Trevor I. Lasn: The final line there uses what is called the “The nullish coalescing assignment operator assignment operator” in case you need to impress people at parties.

There are usually multiple ways to do the same thing on the web. Sometimes… a lot of ways. Which is “better” can be a matter of taste or which abstraction buys the most value. Check out this CSS example and see which you prefer.

One of the nice things about Markdown is that you can just… put HTML in there too. There is no Markdown shortcut for a <div>, but you can just use a <div>. That means you can use use <my-custom-element> as well, bringing the world of Web Components into your writing and creating of content. Deane […]

Raymond Camden: It’s been a little while since I last blogged about my favorite web platform feature, Intl. Favorite?! Big words. As someone who does technical writing, though, I get it. Let’s say you have a number, like 392, and you need to display that as megabytes. What is the absolutely correct way to show […]

Nicholas C. Zakas: I’m confident that going forward, software engineers will need to relearn how to create detailed tech specs for complex changes. It’s also likely that AI will help write and review these specs before implementing them. It’s time to embrace tech specs again because they can be a key to advancing your career. […]

Jeremy Keith: We shouldn’t rely on colour alone to indicate that something is interactive. Then goes on to show how links should be underlined, but that the default underline can be a little intense, and essentially shows how to chill them out. Exactly like we showed! I still think it’s a great balance.

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