Blog Post Articles

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.

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 […]

`box-decoration-break: clone;` in CSS can help us make for interesting backgrounds across lines of text that break, but when opacity gets involved, things can get complicated.

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?

Safari made .mp4 file work in img tags in HTML back in 2017, but no other browser followed suite. Should they have?

This post starts with quite a tricky little quiz about what a color value resolves to be.

Seriously almost every “menu” and “tooltip” could and should use this when it’s ready.

You can pluck off values from HTML attributes that actually have types now, so if you put data-font-size=”2.2rem” on an element you could actually, ya know, honor that.

For who-knows-what reason color inputs only show a color swatch, not a string representation of the color. Let’s see if we can fix that.