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14 February 2025

A very handy, lightweight progressive enhancement to give your native lazy loading a bit more va va voom.

Some really interesting numbers from over 250,000 datapoints here about freelancer rates. You should probably be charging more.

A fascinating long read about the history of open source and its current relationship with profit-driven corporations.

Please everyone read this because faux bold makes my eyes sad.

A fun trick and a useful way to understand @property and anchor positioning better.

P.S. CSS “isn’t a programming language though”, right? Right?!.

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