![Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS](https://www.cdn5.niftycent.com/d/e/7/X/G/X/r/designing-beautiful-shadows-in-css.webp)
My favorite kind of blog post is when someone takes a subject that I’ve spent all of five minutes considering and then says—no!—this is an enormous topic worthy of a dissertation. Look at all the things you can do with …
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![Computer Science Unleashed, Chapter 1: Connections](https://www.cdn5.niftycent.com/d/e/a/M/G/2/j/computer-science-unleashed-chapter-1-connections.webp)
Humans crave connections, and the advent of the digital revolution has empowered us to be more connected than ever before. The Internet has unleashed upon billions of people unprecedented economic and political freedom, as well as powerful means of control and domination. Yet, the vast majority of us are oblivious to its inner workings.
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![Shadow Roots and Inheritance](https://www.cdn5.niftycent.com/d/D/3/x/j/m/p/shadow-roots-and-inheritance.webp)
There is a helluva gotcha with styling a element, as documented here by Kitty Guiraudel. It’s obscure enough that you might never run into it, but if you do, I could see it being very confusing (it would confuse …
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https://kittygiraudel.com/2021/08/23/shadow-roots-and-inheritance/
![Static Site Generators vs. CMS-powered Websites: How to Keep Marketers and Devs Happy](https://www.cdn5.niftycent.com/d/k/8/q/n/G/L/static-site-generators-vs-cms-powered-websites-how-to-keep-marketers-and-devs-happy.webp)
(This is a sponsored post.) Many developers love working with static site generators like Gatsby and Hugo. These powerful yet flexible systems help create beautiful websites using familiar tools like Markdown and React. Nearly every popular modern programming …
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![Minding the “gap”](https://www.cdn5.niftycent.com/d/1/x/j/d/9/K/minding-the-gap.webp)
You might already know about the CSS gap property. It isn’t exactly new, but it did gain an important new ability last year: it now works in Flexbox in addition to CSS Grid. That, and the fact that I …
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![2021 Scroll Survey Report](https://www.cdn5.niftycent.com/d/D/m/r/d/a/Y/2021-scroll-survey-report.webp)
Here’s a common thought and question: how do browsers prioritize what they work on? We get little glimpses of it sometimes. We’re told to “star issues” in bug trackers to signal interest. We’re told to get involved in GitHub threads …
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It’s not every day that a new pattern emerges across the web, but I think cmd + k is here to stay. It’s a keyboard shortcut that usually pops open a search UI and it lets you toggle settings on …
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![An Intro to JavaScript Proxy](https://www.cdn5.niftycent.com/d/D/3/x/j/v/P/an-intro-to-javascript-proxy.webp)
Have you ever been in a situation where you wish you could have some control over the values in an object or array? Maybe you wanted to prevent certain types of data or even validate the data before storing it …
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![On the `dl`](https://www.cdn5.niftycent.com/d/e/L/G/W/0/R/on-the-dl.webp)
Blogging about HTML elements¹? chefs kiss Here’s Ben Myers on the (aptly described) “underrated” Definition List () element in HTML:
You might have also seen lists of name–value pairs to describe lodging amenities, or to list
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![Jamstack Conf 2021](https://www.cdn5.niftycent.com/d/1/d/Y/W/Q/j/jamstack-conf-2021.webp)
(This is a sponsored post.) What? Jamstack Conf! It’s the best! Learn what’s happening and what’s next for this hot ecosystem. When? October 6–7, 2021 Where? Virtual / online. How much? It’s free! There are workshops as well though, …
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