Carousels with CSS
Native CSS carousels are coming and Adam Argyle has written a great roundup article about the capabilities available to us.
Chilled out text underlines
A very cool use of the new(ish) color-mix() CSS function to apply nice, flexible underline styles
CSS relative colours
Ahmad Shadeed has written a really helpful guide on relative colours that has finally made it all make sense.
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.
How to Use ARIA Alert Effectively
A really useful guide on using ARIA alerts properly with a nice form-based example used to demonstrate.
Rethinking Find-in-Page Accessibility: Making Hidden Text Work for Everyone
A really interesting use case for the new HTML hidden attribute value of “until-found” that I think could replace visually hidden utility classes.
The Index
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My website has been gaslighting you
Dave Rupert lifts the curtain on a fun CSS colour trick on their website.
The Importance of Investing in Soft Skills in the Age of AI
A look at how soft skills are becoming more and more essential as so-called AI further integrates itself into our work as developers.
State of JavaScript 2024
The obvious lack of diversity (and respondents versus last year 😬) applies of course, but there’s some interesting stuff in here still.