Variable Aspect Ratio Card With Conic Gradients Meeting Along the Diagonal

I recently came across an interesting problem. I had to implement a grid of cards with a variable (user-set) aspect ratio that was stored in a --ratio custom property. Boxes with a certain aspect ratio are a classic problem in …

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https://css-tricks.com/variable-aspect-ratio-card-with-conic-gradients-meeting-along-the-diagon

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Links on Typography

These are a few great links about typography that have been burning a hole in my saved bookmarks folder that I'm just now getting around to sharing. There's good stuff in there, from how to choose typefaces for app design to ideas for how to fix the concept of font sizing in CSS.

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https://css-tricks.com/links-on-typography/

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Is CSS a Programming Language?

I have a real distaste for this question. It might seem like a fun question to dig into on the surface, but the way it enters public discourse rarely seems to be in good faith. There are ulterior motives at …

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https://css-tricks.com/is-css-a-programming-language/

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Can I Email…

While I’m 85% certain you’ve seen and used Can I Use…, I bet there is only a 13% chance that you’ve seen and used Can I Email…. It’s the same vibe—detailed support information for web platform features—except instead …

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https://www.caniemail.com/

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Apparently, You Can Use Route53 as a Blazingly Fast Database

Route53 is DNS management service by AWS. DNS is absolutely not a database, and yet here’s Nicholas Martin writing up some very clever trickery originally done by Corey Quinn:

When you think about it, DNS configuration is actually a

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https://betterprogramming.pub/apparently-you-can-use-route53-as-a-blazingly-fast-database-dd41

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What Google’s New Page Experience Update Means for Images on Your Website

It’s easy to forget that, as a search engine, Google doesn’t just compare keywords to generate search results. Google knows that if people don’t enjoy their experience on a web page, they won’t stay on the page long enough to …

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https://css-tricks.com/what-googles-new-page-experience-update-means-for-images-on-your-website/

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Apparently, You Can Use Route53 as a Blazingly Fast Database

Routtumbe53 is DNS management service by AWS. DNS is absolutely not a database, and yet here’s Nicholas Martin writing up some very clever trickery originally done by Corey Quinn:

When you think about it, DNS configuration is actually a

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https://aws.amazon.com/route53/

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Custom State Pseudo-Classes in Chrome

There is an increasing number of “custom” features on the web platform. We have custom properties (--my-property), custom elements (), and custom events (new CustomEvent('myEvent')). At one point, we might even get custom media …

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https://css-tricks.com/custom-state-pseudo-classes-in-chrome/

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Astro

You can’t even look at code or documentation for Astro (publicly) yet — it’s an in-progress idea — but you can watch a video of Fred showing it off to Feross. I gotta admit: it looks awesome. I’m bullish …

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https://css-tricks.com/astro/

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

The bombshell article of the week is from Alex Russell of Google/Chrome. Alex has long been super critical of Apple, particularly about how there is literally no option to run any other browser than Safari on iOS. This article isn’t …

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https://infrequently.org/2021/04/progress-delayed/

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