CSS Grid and Custom Shapes, Part 1

In a previous article, I looked at CSS Grid’s ability to create complex layouts using its auto-placement powers. I took that one step further in another article that added a zooming hover effect to images in a grid layout


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Quick Tip: Clear VS Code Cache for Open Files

If you use VS Code, you might have enabled the setting for re-opening a previously open file next time the app launches. I do. I like that.

Hey, thanks for remembering, buddy! 🤗

But sometimes you really, really don’t want …


Quick Tip: Clear VS Code Cache for Open Files originally published on CS

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Designing for Long-Form Articles

Designing a beautiful “article” is wrought with tons of considerations. Unlike, say, a homepage, a long-form article is less about designing an interface than it is designing text in a way that creates a relaxed and comfortable reading experience.

That’s …


Designing for Long-Form Articles originally published on CSS-Tricks,

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Committing CSS Crimes

The time for CSS-Tricks is over. Now is the time for CSS Crimes!

In this current landscape of content service providers, users are often limited to expressing themselves in text, links, and images. Sanitization rules tend to strip out HTML, …


Committing CSS Crimes originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the

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Zooming Images in a Grid Layout

Creating a grid of images is easy, thanks to CSS Grid. But making the grid do fancy things after the images have been placed can be tricky to pull off.

Say you want to add some fancy hover effect to …


Zooming Images in a Grid Layout originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the

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How I Added Scroll Snapping To My Twitter Timeline

CSS Scroll Snap allows websites to snap the web page or any other scroll container to a specific scroll position when the user performs a scrolling operation. This feature has been supported in all modern browsers for over two years, …


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Actually, the San Francisco Typeface Does Ship as a Variable Font

Apple unveiled an expanded version of its San Francisco system font at WWDC 2022. Then, last month, Jim Nielsen zeroed in on the font’s variations, explaining how the font provides a spectrum of variations based on the width and weight


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Converting Speech to PDF with NextJS and ExpressJS

With speech interfaces becoming more of a thing, it’s worth exploring some of the things we can do with speech interactions. Like, what if we could say something and have that transcribed and pumped out as a downloadable PDF?

Well, …


Converting Speech to PDF with NextJS and ExpressJS originally published on CS

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Implicit Grids, Repeatable Layout Patterns, and Danglers

Dave Rupert with some modern CSS magic that tackles one of those classic conundrums: what happens when the CSS for component is unable to handle the content we throw at it?

The specific situation is when a layout grid expects …


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Exploring CSS Grid’s Implicit Grid and Auto-Placement Powers

When working with CSS Grid, the first thing to do is to set display: grid on the element that we want to be become a grid container. Then we explicitly define the grid using a combination of grid-template-columns, grid-template-rows


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