#82

04 April 2025

I’m somewhat a fan of Comic Sans (I’m deadly serious) and this is a great piece about the history and impact of the font. It’s a shame about the scroll-smoothing though.

This is as smooth as butter. The art direction and storytelling is unbelievably good too. Top stuff.

A really interesting read. CSS is definitely a programming language.

A rather novel and humorous approach to poisoning the well for LLM crawlers. Piccalilli gets hammered by LLM crawlers, so maybe we should apply this too 🤔

Instead of leaning into heavy social sharing widgets, you can create a truly user-friendly social sharing component that works for everyone, using built-in APIs and progressive enhancement.

Let’s close out with a proper stunner of a website.

P.S. this is a fun browser game.

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