A week ago, I saw this tweet: I had just shipped SupportMesh, a multi-tenant AI support platform built on Mastra, so I had opinions from production. I liked the .dowhile() loop, the typed step schem
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Every day, millions of people order food, stream videos, send messages, book rides, make payments, and shop online. Most of these actions take only a few seconds from the user's perspective. A user cl
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Building reliable workflows across multiple microservices is challenging. In a monolith, a database transaction can ensure that multiple operations either succeed or fail together. But once data is sp
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PDF files often contain unwanted margins, blank spaces, scanner borders, page headers, page footers, or unnecessary content around the main document area. Cropping allows users to remove these unwante
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On April 3, 2025, the US announced sweeping tariffs on Chinese imports. SPY dropped 4.8% that day. The next day, it dropped another 6%. Financial news ran the usual headline: markets rattled by geopol
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Why isn't my 3D view transition working?! Sunkanmi tackles this frustration and offers an elegant fix for it.
Why Isn’t My 3D View Transition Working? originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
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One of those nuances to keep in your back pocket when writing for screen readers.
There’s no need to include ‘navigation’ in your navigation labels originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
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We have officially moved past the era of humanoid robots as mere public relations stunts. As they become increasingly lifelike, society may soon face profound social, psychological, and ethical challenges. What happens when the boundary between humans and machines becomes almost impossible to distinguish?
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If you're looking to level up your front-end development skills by building a practical web utility, this is the guide for you. We'll code a fully functional Case Converter Tool from scratch using onl
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Dart backend frameworks exist on a spectrum. At the minimal end sits Shelf, with raw primitives and full control. You wire everything yourself. At the maximal end sits Serverpod. It's a full framework
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Your first scaling problem rarely arrives with a bang. For a while, everything is fine: pages load fast, the database barely breaks a sweat, and the team ships features without thinking much about inf
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Technology is rapidly reshaping the world. Understanding how to use free learning resources and contribute to open source projects can be very helpful to start your career in this field. We just publi
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There are many ways to create memorable experiences. Sometimes it's as simple as a form that completes smoothly. But here I'm interested in sharing techniques I reach for when I want a site to feel alive and be remembered.
Creating Memorable Web Experiences: A Modern CSS Toolkit originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
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Findings from an exploratory user research study highlighting the unique insights and practical UX recommendations shared by participants with cognitive disabilities.
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I've said one and mean another, and I've used one when I needed another. Comparing scroll-driven animations, scroll-triggered animations, container query scroll states, and view transitions for my future self.
Scroll-Driven, Scroll-Triggered, Scroll States, and View Transitions originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
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We dive again into CSS Pie Charts! This time, Author Antoine Villepreux delivers semantic and flexible charts without a single line of JS.
Another Stab at the Perfect CSS Pie Chart… Sans JavaScript! originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
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In the previous article, I spoke about the why and how to use a Markdown component in Astro.
Here, we’re going to expand on that and help you use Markdown everywhere — regardless of the framework you use. So, …
Astro Markdown Component Utility for Any Framework originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
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The old (testing in Safari when you don’t have Safari), the new (::checkmark), the in-between (anchor positioning but with HTML), and more.
What’s !important #12: Safari Testing, ::checkmark, HTML Anchor Positioning, and More originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
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Seventy percent of websites still fail basic WCAG contrast checks in 2025. After years of design system tooling, accessibility linters, and JavaScript libraries, nothing moved the needle. We didn’t need better libraries. We needed better CSS. `contrast-color()` is that better CSS.
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Until we get something like ::nth-letter, there are still some really cool text effects we can make from existing CSS features, like letter-spacing, ::first-word and ::first-line.
Revealing Text With CSS letter-spacing originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
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Every view-transition-name on a page must be unique. The problem is that every pseudo-element selector in your CSS targets a specific name, so your animation styles explode into an unmanageable wall of selectors.
Cross-Document View Transitions: Scaling Across Hundreds of Elements originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
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There’s a moment in almost every usability session where a participant pauses at the login screen, types something, and glances up: checking whether they’re “doing it right.” That pause is a clear sign. They’ve already clocked that this isn’t a real app, and every data point collected after that moment is filtered through that awareness.
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Meet `sibling-index()` and `sibling-count()`. Staggered cascade effect in one line of CSS without `:nth-child()` rules or JS workarounds. Works for 5 items or 5,000.
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