Unlike JavaScript, there is no simple built-in method in CSS to access an element’s width and height. But using some (call it hacky) modern CSS techniques, we can get our hands on the number and even use it.

Let’s look at a cool animated nav effect (from a recent post by Emil Kowalski) that uses CSS `clip-path` to move the highlighted nav item around. It’s an interesting look at this CSS feature and adds a lot of polish to a simple idea.

Svelte 5 introduces significant improvements in reactivity, state management, and prop handling, maintaining its user-friendly Developer Experience (DX).

You should know that in-app browser can and do literally inject JavaScript into the websites you visit with them with tracking scripts from the app you’re inside of. And that’s just one thing that sucks about them.

Danila Fedorin’s article about unique UX features in blogs is fun. Here’s some extra thoughts, resources, and opinions.

Having a named block of styles to apply in CSS can be useful, and newfangled Style Queries are pretty close to that. We look at one use case here, how Sass did mixins better, and hope for a native solution.