Animate native lazy loading
A very handy, lightweight progressive enhancement to give your native lazy loading a bit more va va voom.
The 2025 Freelancer Rates Report
Some really interesting numbers from over 250,000 datapoints here about freelancer rates. You should probably be charging more.
Open Source Software and Corporate Influence
A fascinating long read about the history of open source and its current relationship with profit-driven corporations.
Beware the faux bold (and how to fix it)
Please everyone read this because faux bold makes my eyes sad.
Bouncy radio buttons using modern CSS
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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