Chris Coyier

If you need a mini build process just for your CSS, Lightning CSS is a pretty good modern choice. That, plus a file watcher and live reloader offers pretty good DX.

Stephanie Stimac: Use text-wrap: balance; on headings and subheadings. And use text-wrap: pretty; on paragraphs of text to get rid of orphans on the last line. Despite the Chromium-only support, these would be a good candidate for progressive enhancement. The performance impact is generally negligible but there in extreme conditions.

Keith Cirkel demonstrates a brand new concept (requires Chrome Canary and the Experimental Web Platform Features flag right now) called Invokers, a proposal from the Open UI group that is polyfillable. You “invoke” events directly on a specific element in the DOM: Then you can listen for the invoke event on that element. Adding interactive […]

Did you know you can declare number values in JavaScript with notation like 1_000_000? This is especially useful for large numbers where you might be used to seeing commas within the number to help readability (but commas themselves are invalid). It’s perhaps even more useful when declaring numbers in binary, hexadecimal, or BigInt notation.

Josh W. Comeau: A cool thing I always forget: The <progress> tag can be put in an “indeterminate” state by omitting the value attribute. The idea is that we want to signal to the user that something is in progress, but we don’t know how far along it is. With a value: Indeterminate: