Chris Coyier

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.

Just saw and played with Cursorful, a browser plugin for recording nice looking videos of using websites. The trend of videos that zoom and pan based on what you’re interacting with is pretty neat I think. As web builders, I feel like we’re constantly showing short videos of the sites, whether it’s to clients, customers, […]

There is an already-classic @scope demo about theme colors. Let’s recap that and then I’ll show how it relates to any situation with modifier classes. (The @scope rule is a newish feature in CSS that is everywhere-but-Firefox, but is in Interop 2025, so shouldn’t be too long to be decently usable.) There are lots of […]

I love the idea of being able to take a color you already have in CSS, like currentColor, a custom property, or a color pulled from an attr(), and manipulate it. The big examples being darken, lighten, or apply opacity to it for different adjacent elements or states. We have a ton of “newly available” […]

Dries Buytaert: I have 10,000 photos on my website. About 9,000 have no alt-text. I’m not proud of that, and it has bothered me for a long time. Going back and hand-writing alt for 9,000 images isn’t a job that most of us can fit into our lives and I empathize. Are computers up for the task finally? […]

Amelia Wattenberger asks in a wonderful blog post wondering about more human interfaces: Can we build something richer—something that moves with us, speaks our language, and molds to our bodies?

Allen Pike “after about a decade away from regularly writing JavaScript” comes back to take a look. I think these points are all correct: The goal was to see if there was an obvious (boring, trodden) framework, and the answer is… kinda?

Blue links with underlines is a good default style for links in body text, but it’s a bit intense. Maybe we can chill it out a bit and be a bit more flexible.

There are quite a few tools to avoid *needing* a database these days, static site generators chief among them. So then what are the things that push toward or require a database?