Netlify Free Plan

By Chris Coyier on

When we published our advice on the simplest and best way to take some static local files and make a proper online website out of them, we recommended Netlify. That holds true. But there is some trepidation, as once in a while you’d hear a horror story about usage blowing up unexpectedly and a user […]

trimMiddle()

By Chris Coyier on

CSS can truncate text on a single line or on multiple lines, but it always does so from the end of the text. I’ve seen a (bad) trick reversing the text direction to trim text from the front instead, but never from the middle. Christian Heilmann wrote a package to help with this. I agree […]

TypeScript without Build Tools

By Chris Coyier on

You can build your own TypeScript build process, and you might want to if you need true type checking and compatibility with a wider ecosystem of tools. But lots of tools, including now Node itself, just accept TypeScript as if it were JavaScript.

CSS text-box

By Chris Coyier on

Safari is first to drop text-box in CSS, which plenty of people are excited for as it takes care of aligning text in many cases without the use of fragile magic numbers. They say: Now you can declare which font metric you want the browser to consider the edge of the text box when calculating […]

12 Days of Web

By Chris Coyier on

Shoutout to Stephanie Eckles’ 12 Days of Web advent blogging this year. I found each article fresh and with good information, a real standout to me. Just one day left but of course you can read them anytime.