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  1. Creating CSS Theme Variables from a JS file

    A really handy, light weight method of grabbing some JavaScript-based design tokens and turning those into a block of CSS custom properties.

  2. I’m getting fed up of making the rich, richer

    We're hoping that we can work in the open with community support and sponsorship. The end result? People get genuine real world education that's free at the point of entry.

  3. CSS Custom Properties vs. Sass Variables: A Pragmatic Guide

    Stuart Robson has written a detailed pragmatic guide on when and where to use custom properties and/or Sass variables.

  4. UA+

    Manuel Matuzović has come through with a great new CSS reset that features loads of gold and some novel ways of demonstrating the reset's impact.

  5. Item Flow, Part 1: A new unified concept for layout

    The Webkit team have come forward with some really interesting CSS layout proposals but a long-standing worry about accessibility and tabbing order returns.

  6. Minding the gaps: A new way to draw separators in CSS

    A really interesting proposal has landed to finally fix the problem of separator lines in grid and flexbox contexts.

  7. Carousels with CSS

    Native CSS carousels are coming and Adam Argyle has written a great roundup article about the capabilities available to us.

  8. Chilled out text underlines

    A very cool use of the new(ish) color-mix() CSS function to apply nice, flexible underline styles

  9. CSS relative colours

    Ahmad Shadeed has written a really helpful guide on relative colours that has finally made it all make sense.

  10. Is the button focusable?

    A very handy article / game to show you if a button is focusable in lots of different contexts with some surprising results.