A 2026 Piccalilli homepage redesign
We've got a brand new homepage that communicates exactly what we're about at Piccalilli: providing really high quality educational material for humans, written by humans to boost their career.
An in-depth guide to customising lists with CSS
Richard Rutter helps you to make sense of list-style, list-item, ::marker, counters(), counter(), @counter-style, symbolic, symbols(), symbols and more to push your HTML and CSS lists to the next level.
You might not need role="presentation"
Steve Frenzel shares some sage advice on correctly using this role and value combination by showing questionable examples, followed by some better approaches. Spoiler: the better ones are the simple ones.
It’s about to get a lot easier for your JavaScript to clean up after itself
There’s some very useful capabilities coming to JavaScript: “[Symbol.dispose]()” and “using”. Mat Marquis is here to explain why they’re coming and how to use them effectively.
The open source design stack
Scott Riley tested free and open source design tools out when researching his course, Mindful Design. They actually worked out better than Figma ever could, as he explains in this article with loads of options for you.
Some CSS only contrast options until contrast-color() is Baseline widely available
While we wait for contrast-color() to arrive in all browsers, these CSS-only approaches by Donnie D’Amato give us a practical way forward that we can use right now, along with lots of other knowledge on how colour works in CSS.
Some advice on managing your design career upwards
So often, the default career growth path seems to be management, even when that doesn't match someone's skills and personality. Unfortunately, this often results in very bad managers. It's not the only way though, as Ron Bronson walks us through.
Accessible faux-nested interactive controls
A really common user interface pattern is a big clickable area, such as a card. Sometimes you need controls within that card that are also clickable. There's lots of ways to do it wrong, but fret not, Eric is here to show you how to do it right.
Date is out, Temporal is in
Temporal is the Date system we always wanted in JavaScript. It's extremely close to being available so Mat Marquis thought it would be a good idea to explain exactly what is better about this new JavaScript date system.
Wrapping up 2025
We don't normally do one of these, but I think 2025 has been a stellar year for Piccalilli, so we wanted to get into what we've done and what we're planning for next year.