Chris Coyier

CSS has linear, radial, and conic gradients, that can all do interesting and complex things… but not quite this, at least not on their own: That’s what we’ve been calling a Mesh Gradient. There are all sorts of ways to pull it off, like using multiple backgrounds with radial gradients placed at different locations, or […]

Philip Walton for Google responded to our question We’ve Got Container Queries Now, But Are We Actually Using Them? There are a variety of reasons why usage of them seems to be low, but certainly developers worried about browser support is still a factor. The biggest quoted concern is Safari 15, which is entirely reasonable. […]

Polyfill.io recently served malicious code, redirecting users to inappropriate sites. Subresource Integrity (SRI) can help prevent such issues by verifying script integrity.

I found this essay Primitive Obsession by Andrew Cairns interesting. The big example in it is this: Here the User function takes two string params, string being a primitive type, and here, quite easy to screw up by passing them in the wrong order and/or not pre-validating the values. If you agree, there are a […]

Sets in JavaScript are quite useful as they are like an array, but can only contain one of a specific item. So you can unique-ify an array easily, and even willy-nilly add stuff to it and not worry about duplicates: Now they are even more useful with recently universally available methods, as Brian Smith summarizes:

The website has the most control, since that’s what applies the CSS. But browsers also have a Dark/Light/System setting, and that can fall through to the OS/Device.

Nicholas C. Zakas on the idea that we have choice in server-side JavaScript runtimes now, and you should be careful. … it makes sense to preserve the ability to switch runtimes easily. It doesn’t matter if you want to use Node.js or Deno or Bun in production right now. What you really want is the ability […]

I’ve long been a GUI guy for using Git (🔗). It just makes sense to me to clearly visually see an manipulate the files I’m staging and committing, seeing nice lists of current branches and PRs at a glance, and seeing the diffs and conflicts in a dedicated UI. But I get it, a lot […]

Which one makes more sense to use, big and slow or small and fast? Especially with the same appearance and functionality, the youtube-lite component is a no-brainer.

Sometimes it’s good to know when a browser feature is supported or not so you can do something. Perhaps load a polyfill or just choose a slightly different approach. This post looks at newish features in browsers and shows the test.