The Law of Diminishing Returns

A client asked me to create a bulging text effect. With a bit of cleverness and some advanced CSS, I managed to get a result I’m genuinely proud of, which is covered in this three-part series.

It's easy to take URL superpowers for granted, even if you already have these patterns under your belt.

Short story: Slapping hidden=until-found on an element in HTML enables any hidden content within the element to be findable in the browser with in-page search.

My brain can’t help but try to make connections between seemingly disparate ideas. And that’s what happened yesterday when I read:

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I've come to realize that perhaps we need to have a unit between root and relative values. This would bring about a whole new possibility when creating reusable components.

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