The Double Emphasis Thing

December 27, 2023 0 Comments 0 tags

I used to have this boss who loved, loved, loved, loved to emphasize words. This was way back before we used a WYSIWYG editors and I’d have to handcode that

Moving Backgrounds

December 27, 2023 0 Comments 0 tags

We often think of background images as texture or something that provides contrast for legible content — in other words, not really content. If it was content, you’d probably reach

Healthcare, Selling Lemons, and the Price of Developer Experience

December 27, 2023 0 Comments 0 tags

Every now and then, a one blog post is published and it spurs a reaction or response in others that are, in turn, published as blogs posts, and a theme

An Approach to Lazy Loading Custom Elements

December 27, 2023 0 Comments 0 tags

We’re fans of Custom Elements around here. Their design makes them particularly amenable to lazy loading, which can be a boon for performance. Inspired by a colleague’s experiments, I recently

Caching Data in SvelteKit

November 28, 2023 0 Comments 0 tags

My previous post was a broad overview of SvelteKit where we saw what a great tool it is for web development. This post will fork off what we did there

A Fancy Hover Effect For Your Avatar

November 28, 2023 0 Comments 0 tags

Do you know that kind of effect where someone’s head is poking through a circle or hole? The famous Porky Pig animation where he waves goodbye while popping out of

Different Ways to Get CSS Gradient Shadows

November 28, 2023 0 Comments 0 tags

It’s a question I hear asked quite often: Is it possible to create shadows from gradients instead of solid colors? There is no specific CSS property that does this (believe

Creating a Clock with the New CSS sin() and cos() Trigonometry Functions

November 28, 2023 0 Comments 0 tags

CSS trigonometry functions are here! Well, they are if you’re using the latest versions of Firefox and Safari, that is. Having this sort of mathematical power in CSS opens up

Managing Fonts in WordPress Block Themes

November 28, 2023 0 Comments 0 tags

Fonts are a defining characteristic of the design of any site. That includes WordPress themes, where it’s common for theme developers to integrate a service like Google Fonts into the

Everything You Need to Know About the Gap After the List Marker

November 28, 2023 0 Comments 0 tags

I was reading “Creative List Styling” on Google’s web.dev blog and noticed something odd in one of the code examples in the ::marker section of the article. The built-in list