#85

16 April 2025

I urge everyone to read this. Clear your Chrome extensions!! Fascinating but terrifying stuff.

I get a lot of folks talking to me about getting into writing and I’ll definitely say this to everyone: it’s ok to post stuff that’s ok. Just post.

You might think infinity in CSS gives you z-index super-powers, but as Manuel rightly notes, it’s not how it works. My tip is to really understand stacking contexts and you’ll never worry about it again!

This will make the left-pad incident seem like a doozy.

Yet another Ahmad masterpiece guide about some really interesting, incoming CSS layout stuff.

Sorry to plug my own article here but it’s dominated my brain for months now.

P.S. this is a good demo.

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Andy