View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Very quickly, before we get into the topics of this week's newsletter, the State of Devs survey is going to be closing shortly. The survey is for devs, but asks about who we are, rather than what we know. As with all the "State of..." surveys, the more people who take it, the more representative the results are, so if you have a few minutes, it'd be great if you could take the time to take it. Hello Reader, So, Figma had a big event...
9 days ago • 6 min read
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, Have you ever found yourself staring at some CSS that you were sure should work, but it wasn’t doing what you wanted? If so, welcome to the club 😂. These days, for me, it’s less about not understanding a specific behavior and more about making dumb mistakes, but there are times when it still catches me off guard as well. At this stage, most of the time I can reason my way out of the problem I’m facing, but with years...
16 days ago • 4 min read
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, I was going to bury this part lower down, but I think the topic of AI and it’s impact on development is very front-of-mind these days, so I’ve kept it up here at the top. Josh Comeau recently put out an article titled The Post-Developer Era. A listener on my second channel asked for more content where I share my thoughts on articles and news, and Josh's piece seemed like the perfect opportunity to try this approach!...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) PRE-S: Sending this week’s newsletter out early this week, which I’ll talk about more of why a little further down. Hello Reader, I’m so curious about how some of the new CSS features that are coming out now are going to impact how we author our stylesheets in the years to come. I think the one that might have the biggest singular impact might be the advanced attr() function, which finally allows us to use the values of data...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, I have two sons, who are now 10 and 13 years old now (time flies!). Raising them is surprisingly a lot like writing CSS, where something works when you try it in one situation, only to be frustrated when you try it again somewhere else and it no longer works the same. Like, I can get one of my kids to clean their room, including doing a great job dusting it and wiping everything down with just a small amount of...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, Last week, I talked about how CSS is like a strange puzzle. Like a regular puzzle, when we write CSS, we need to figure out how to fit all the pieces together properly. But it’s made more complicated because each piece can change it’s size and position. Despite that, we still need everything to fit together. There are so many variables at play at any given time that it sometimes feels like we’re just hoping for the...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, A few weeks ago, my dad and my 10-year-old son were working on a puzzle together. My dad mentioned that it was a pretty hard puzzle for a kid, and he was impressed with my son's patience with it (he isn’t always the most patient type 😆). The reason I bring this up at all is because one of the reasons that I often tell people I like CSS is because it’s like a puzzle. Just like with a real puzzle, where you do have a...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, Another shorter email than usual this week. We’ll be back to the regular ones starting next week 🙂. 🙋♂️ What I’ve been up to this week Create a fun, quick text flip effect Not sure about the name and thumbnail that I made for this one, as the text doesn’t flip, so much as, slide in and out. I don’t know what else to call this effect, or how to make a good thumbnail to illustrate what's going on, so this is it 😆. I took...
2 months ago • 1 min read
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, You may have noticed that I didn’t send out an email last week. This week’s email is going to be a short one as well. I have some personal matters that I’m taking care of at the moment, so I may miss sending one out next week as well; we'll have to see, but things will be back to normal here in another week or two. And because this section is shorter than normal, an apology to everyone who voted for the musings at the...
2 months ago • 2 min read