A Whistle-Stop Tour of 4 New CSS Color Features

I was just writing in my “What’s new in since CSS3?” article about recent and possible future changes to CSS colors. It’s weirdly a lot. There are just as many or more new and upcoming ways to define colors than …

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Developers Speculating About the Long-Distant Future: 2022

This is a wonderful roundup from Jeremy, who I picture circling January 1, 2022, in red marker on a giant paper calendar back in 2008 and patiently counting the days. See, there was a little smattering of internet drama …

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A Chrome Extension for Cloudinary That Helps You Pluck Out Useful Media URLs From Your Library Quickly

(This is a sponsored post.) Cloudinary is a host for your digital assets like images and video. If you don’t already know them, you should, because you can build it into the asset management you almost certainly need to …

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Helpful Tips for Starting a Next.js Chrome Extension

I recently rewrote one of my projects — Minimal Theme for Twitter — as a Next.js Chrome extension because I wanted to use React for the pop-up. Using React would allow me to clearly separate my extension’s pop-up component and …

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SVGcode for “Live Tracing” Raster Images

Say you have a bitmap graphic — like a JPG, PNG, or GIF — and you wish it was vector, like SVG. What do you do? You could trace it yourself in some kind of design software. Or tools within …

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How to Make CSS Slanted Containers

I was updating my portfolio and wanted to use the forward slash (/) as a visual element for the site’s main layout. I hadn’t attempted to create a slanted container in CSS before, but it seemed like it …

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No Motion Isn’t Always prefers-reduced-motion

There is a code snippet that I see all the time when the media query prefers-reduced-motion is talked about. Here it is: @media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {

  • { animation-duration: 0.01ms !important; animation-iteration-count: 1 !important; transition-duration: 0.01ms !important; scroll-behavior: auto !important;

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Netlify Has Scheduled Functions

(This is a sponsored post.) Hey! Scheduled Functions are cool! Think of them like a CRON job. I want this code to run every Monday at 2pm. I want this code run every hour on the hour. That kind …

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Replace JavaScript Dialogs With the New HTML Dialog Element

You know how there are JavaScript dialogs for alerting, confirming, and prompting user actions? Say you want to replace JavaScript dialogs with the new HTML dialog element. Let me explain. I recently worked on a project with a lot of …

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Using Different Color Spaces for Non-Boring Gradients

A little gradient generator tool from Tom Quinonero. You’d think fading one color to another would be an obvious, simple, solved problem — it’s actually anything but! Tom’s generator does two things that help make a gradient better:

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