Engineering

This is an extended version of my essay “When front-end means full-stack” which was published in the wonderful Increment magazine put out by Stripe. It’s also something of an evolution of a couple other of my essays, “The Great Divide” and “Ooops, I guess we’re full-stack developers now.”

You can do an impressive amount of form validation with just HTML attributes. You can make the user experience pretty clean and clear with CSS selectors. But

I bookmarked a tweet a few months ago, as it was a bonafide CSS trick and that's what we love around here.

Avoid using CSS’ shorthand syntax

It started with seeing a recent Pen of Mandy Michael's text effects demos. I'm a very visual creature, so the first thing I noticed was the effect, not the

One aspect of web development I've always loathed was working with forms. Form elements have been traditionally difficult to style due to OS and browser

Learn how to use @scope to select elements only within a limited subtree of your DOM.

When you’re building a website, you might be tempted to use a transparent background for some elements. For instance, you may want to use a transparent background for the navigation bar or the header of the website.

In my fourth article about scroll-driven animations, I explore how we can transfer the state of one element to a completely different place on a page by connecting them with a unique identifier in CSS via a timeline-scope.

A look at Photoshop web version CSS