Amir Maghami | Blogs

Blogs

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

CSS Animations That Leverage the Parent-Child Relationship

When we change an element’s intrinsic sizing, its children are affected, too. This is something we can use to our advantage.

An Introduction to JavaScript Expressions

A thorough but approachable lesson on JavaScript expressions excerpted JavaScript For Everyone, a complete online course offered by our friends at Piccalilli.

Building a Honeypot Field That Works

Honeypots are fields that developers use to prevent spam submissions. They still work in 2025. But you got to set a couple of tricks in place so spambots can’t detect your honeypot field.

Sequential linear() Animation With N Elements

Let’s suppose you have N elements with the same animation that should animate sequentially. Modern CSS makes this easy and it works for any number of items!

Masonry: Watching a CSS Feature Evolve

What can CSS Masonry discussions teach us about the development of new CSS features? What is the CSSWG’s role? What influence do browsers have? What can learn from the way past features evolved?

We Completely Missed width/height: stretch

The TL;DR is that stretch does the same thing as declaring 100%, but ignores padding when looking at the available space.

Getting Creative With shape-outside

There are so many creative opportunities for using shape-outside that I’m surprised I see it used so rarely. So, how can you use it to add personality to a design? Here’s how I do it.

Same Idea, Different Paint Brush

Naturally, everything looks like code when I'm staring at a blank canvas. That's whether the canvas is paper, a screen, some Figma artboard, or what have you.

Touring New CSS Features in Safari 26

Safari 26 adds:75 new features, 3 deprecations, and 171 other improvements. Here's all the CSS goodness you'll want to know about.