Chris Coyier

A fun list post from Nic Chan where you check off the funny/sad/proud/weird things we do as front-end developers. I don’t know if a higher score is better, but it certainly means you’ve been around the block. I doubt you’ll be able to resist poking around Nic’s site, it’s really fun.

There was a lot of interest in our Why Can’t HTML Alone Do Includes? article. I’d like to point you to my ShopTalk Show conversation where we really get into things more with Jake Archibald.

There are several different ways to do equal width columns. But some are, uh, more equal than others.

Fun idea from the team at Immich: Cursed knowledge we have learned as a result of building Immich that we wish we never knew. Stuff like: Fetch requests in Cloudflare Workers use http by default, even if you explicitly specify https, which can often cause redirect loops.

scroll-timelines go from 0 to 100. Many variable fonts axis have similar ranges, like 100 to 900. Surely that’s begging for interplay.

You might as well really understand height and Josh Comeau has your back here. It’s really quite different than width and perhaps less intuitive. Plus when grid and flexbox get involved, things change.

Just a tiny gotcha.

We’ve been trying to make the point around here that the new shape() in CSS is awesome. It’s the powerful <path> in SVG ported to CSS so it can use actual units. It’s probably how path() should have ported to begin with, but c’est la vie. I’ll make the point in this demo. Resize those […]

A very interesting aspect of the AI smashing its way into every software product known to man, is how it’s integrated. What does it look like? What does it do? Are we allowed to control it? UX patterns are evolving around this. In coding tools, I’ve felt the bar being turned up on “anticipate what […]

For the true beginners out there! We’ll put the files in a GitHub repo and connect it to Netlify to host it.