Blogs

A collection of my thoughts, tutorials, and insights on web development.

Generative UI Notes

Looking at research and experiments that are designed to automatically generate user interfaces based on user preferences.

Experimenting With Scroll-Driven corner-shape Animations

The new CSS corner-shape() property is mathematical, so it’s easily animated. Author Daniel Schwarz pokes at animating the property for interesting UI effects.

JavaScript for Everyone: Destructuring

Mat Marquis and Andy Bell have released JavaScript for Everyone, an online course offered exclusively at Piccalilli. This post is an excerpt from the course taken specifically from a chapter all about JavaScript destructuring.

What’s !important #7: random(), Folded Corners, Anchored Container Queries, and More

For this issue we have random(), folded clip-path corners, anchored container queries, customizable select, scroll-triggered animations, and more.

4 Reasons That Make Tailwind Great for Building Layouts

Tailwind is really great for making layouts and there are many reasons why. Zell Liew looks at four specific examples of common use cases.

Abusing Customizable Selects

Let’s go over a few demos using the new customizable <select> feature that may be wild, but also give us a great chance to learn new things in CSS.

The Value of z-index

How we look at the stacking order of our projects, how we choose z-index values, and more importantly, the implications of those choices.

The Different Ways to Select <html> in CSS

Sure, we can select the <html> element in CSS with, you know, a simple element selector, html. But what other (trivial and perhaps useless) ways can we do it?

Popover API or Dialog API: Which to Choose?

Choosing between Popover API and Dialog API is difficult because they seem to do the same job, but they don’t! After a bit lots of research, I discovered that the Popover API and Dialog API are wildly different in terms of accessibility and we'll go over that in this article.