AI's impact on those working in tech

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Hello Reader,

If you only have 10 or so minutes of free time for this email, instead of reading it, I’m going to ask that you either read this article or watch this video by Salma Alam-Naylor, where she explores her current thoughts on the tech industry and the impact AI is having on it.

I’ve had a lot of thoughts on the current state of things circling around my head without being able to wrangle them in any coherent way, which she manages to do perfectly. So instead of trying to regurgitate those thoughts in a less eloquent way, just read her article or watch the video.

🙋‍♂️ What I’ve been up to this week

📺 Useful CSS properties that don’t get enough attention

More quick tips, this time looking at overscroll-behavior, caret-color (and caret-shape), accent-color, color-scheme (and light-dark()), as well as a few ways to center, starting with place-content.

⚡ Shorts

The Shorts experiment continues. Since I'm mixing up the styles of content for these, when I share them here I'll make sure to give you a bit of an idea of what each one is, and links to the longer form content that some of them come from.

isolation: isolate to the rescue - A quick tip
We’ve been using Container Queries wrong - Excerpt from my Smashing Conference NY talk from 2024
The Syntax crew said they’d crush me… Mashup from when SyntaxFM challenged me to a CSS Battle

🔗 Other awesome stuff from around the web

Patrick Brosset with an incredible post, looking at using CSS animations as state machines.
Stuart Robson explores un-Sass’ing his CSS: Native CSS Nesting, first breaking down how nesting works and the differences between Sass and native nesting, before moving into some practical examples of where it comes in handy.
Jermey Keith explores his web font strategy for his site The Session, exploring subsetting, preloading, size-adjust, and more strategies for working with fonts on the web.

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No podcast episode this week as I was a bit too busy to get around to it. It should be back next week 😊.

Cheers,
Kevin

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