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Direct link to the article Getting Creative With Versal Letters
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Getting Creative With Versal Letters

A versal letters is a typographic flourish found in illuminated manuscripts and traditional book design, where it adds visual interest and helps guide a reader’s eye to where they should begin.
Andy Clarke on Jul 18, 2025
Direct link to the article How to Keep Up With New CSS Features
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How to Keep Up With New CSS Features

How do you stay informed of new CSS features when the language evolves quickly and information is spread all around the web? Sacha Greif has some tips from his work running an annual survey focused on new CSS features.
Sacha Greif on Jun 20, 2025
Direct link to the article The Lost CSS Tricks of Cohost.org
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The Lost CSS Tricks of Cohost.org

In this post, Blackle Mori shows you a few of the hacks found while trying to push the limits of Cohost’s HTML support. Use these if you dare, lest you too get labelled a CSS criminal.
Blackle Mori on Apr 24, 2025
Direct link to the article Using CSS backdrop-filter for UI Effects
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Using CSS backdrop-filter for UI Effects

Tips and tricks on utilizing the CSS backdrop-filter property to style user interfaces. You’ll learn how to layer backdrop filters among multiple elements, and integrate them with other CSS graphical effects to create elaborate designs.
Preethi on Apr 16, 2025
Direct link to the article Next Level CSS Styling for Cursors
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Next Level CSS Styling for Cursors

Custom cursors with CSS are great, but we can take things to the next level with JavaScript. Using JavaScript, we can transition between cursor states, place dynamic text within the cursor, apply complex animations, and apply filters.
Declan Chidlow on Apr 14, 2025
Direct link to the article Applying the Web Dev Mindset to Dealing With Life Challenges
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Applying the Web Dev Mindset to Dealing With Life Challenges

The grain of truth was that even if you love your job, it can’t love you back. Yet what I’m hooked on isn’t one job, but the power of code and language.
Lee Meyer on Feb 24, 2025
Direct link to the article The Law of Diminishing Returns
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The Law of Diminishing Returns

Striking the right balance can be tough. We don’t want cool mama bear's porridge or hot papa's bear porridge, but something right in the middle, like baby bear’s porridge.
Geoff Graham on Dec 4, 2024
Direct link to the article Everybody’s Free (To Write Websites)
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Everybody’s Free (To Write Websites)

Sara Joy’s adaptation of the song “Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)” (YouTube) originally by Baz Luhrman with lyrics pulled directly from Mary Schmich‘s classic essay, “Wear Sunscreen”. Anyone who has graduated high school since 1999 doesn’t even have …

Geoff Graham on Aug 12, 2024

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