Figma has support for variables, and they work with the various typography features you may want to set. For instance, you could create a variable called “Header Font” with a value of “Ideal Sans” and use it in many places.

I said to myself I said what if I used container units for every single unit in a design? I was wondering, partially because I thought the answer might be well, everything will probably scale really nicely then. Container units, in case you haven’t heard of them, are unit (like px or rem, but more […]

While it’s a bit more common to *write* to the clipboard, JavaScript can also read from it. Plain text is pretty simple, while multimedia content is a bit more complex.

JavaScript Frameworks generally do a lot of DOM handling for you, but doing it yourself can be the most performant option, and there are quite a few best practices.

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.