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19 November 2025

This book (available to read online) is absolutely packed full of gold.

A great, practical article teaching you about the newer sibling-index() and sibling-count() functions in CSS.

Everything you read outside of the Piccalilli site (including this email) is powered by tooling like this under the hood. Automation without the hassle is always a good thing too in our experience.

We certainly need hefty infrastructure here but a personal site certainly doesn’t. Maybe the recent Cloudflare and AWS outages, along with easy guides like this will make people think that simplification is actually better.

This is a great article if you might be thinking that style queries are not overly useful because they are, especially with the range syntax.

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Andy