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  1. Quick Figma tricks you may not know exist

    In this Little Design Tip, Leanne shares some really handy Figma tricks about its powerful auto layout tool.

    Design

  2. Some simple ways to make content look good

    Something non-designers understandably struggle with is how to make things look good. One of those things is long form content that’s well set and readable. Luckily, CSS makes this easy, you just have to know what to change.

    Design

  3. Relative rounded corners

    If you’ve got a rounded corner on both the outside, and the inside of an element that both have the same value, it looks pretty weird. In this Little Design Tip, we dig into a formula to get relative rounded corners, along with a nice CSS utility to apply to your projects.

    Design

  4. How a minimum viable experience produces a resilient, inclusive end-product

    Progressive Enhancement

  5. My favourite 3 lines of CSS

    CSS

  6. Line heights in CSS work better with ratios

    CSS

  7. A CLS punishment for progressive enhancement?

    I’ve stumbled across an issue with Lighthouse where I get a bad performance score for a progressive enhanced burger menu pattern.

    General

  8. Learn Eleventy From Scratch is now open source

    General

  9. Define delay for each property in the transition shorthand

    You can set a different delay for each transitioned property, using the transition shorthand, which creates some pretty cool state changes.

    CSS

  10. Prevent squishy elements with flex none

    You can prevent that annoying squished look that elements like icons get when space runs out in a flex context with flex: none.

    CSS