Chris Coyier

Good advice: “Write alternative text as if you’re describing the image to a friend.” Or, if it’s helpful, don’t forget to include the emotion in an image.

I wrote in my masonry proposal feedback: Are there any more fleshed out alternative proposals? I thought Jen presented strongly that CSS grid is a great place to put masonry layout, but also that it wasn’t arguing against anything else. Rachel Andrew has that “anything else”, which is display: masonry; with more explanation. What’s nice […]

This API, which you can use entirely in HTML, allows you to open an element on top of *everything* despite where it lives in the DOM and without any particular styling.

Nikita Prokopov with a pretty humorous article about centering things in web design. This is my claim: we, as a civilization, forgot how to center things. Centering things is almost trivial in CSS at this point. There are different approaches, because there are different situations. The knowledge to do so is pretty easy to find. […]

Happy Friday! I think I’m a bit unusual in that I typically like to listen to nothing as I work. Or more specifically, code or write. I love listening to music when I’m ever doing anything rote, and podcasts when I drive. But I gave musicForProgramming(); a try when I saw it the other day […]

Let’s build a search form that looks like this: That feels like the absolute bowl-it-down-the-middle search form right now. Looks good but nothing fancy. And yet, coding it in HTML and CSS I don’t think is perfectly intuitive and makes use of a handful of decently modern and slightly lesser used features. The Label-Wrapping HTML […]

Jen Simmons posted Help us invent CSS Grid Level 3, aka “Masonry” layout over on the WebKit blog the other day and is actively soliciting feedback. Our hope is that web designers and developers chime in (post to social media, write blog posts) with your thoughts about which direction CSS should take. Don’t mind if I do. Do […]

What is the go-to component library these days? I’m not sure there is a clear winner right now. Bootstrap is still popular I’m sure. It seems stable but also sort on maintenance mode and the fact that they are recommending this feels like they are kinda done. I imagine the Sass dependency makes it slot […]

I heard from a guy once who was incredulous I’d want to block the bots that scrape websites to train AI models. Why wouldn’t I want to help train the intelligence of the future? I get that perspective, I do, but shouldn’t it be up to me? The companies that are scraping my sites are […]

I only just recently saw Faces.js, a library for producing controllable cartoony avatars. It was launched in 2012, so I’m a little late to the party. It produces faces (busts, really) randomly, or with certain parameters locked to what you want. I think that’s a really cool idea, and if you needed this kind of […]