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Issue 743 - What's still missing from CSS

The State of CSS Centering in 2026 | CSS-Tricks

https://css-tricks.com/the-state-of-css-centering-in-2026/

The State of CSS Centering in 2026 — Temani offers up a fresh exploration of a perennially popular CSS topic, promising some hidden tricks and modern features you may not be aware of, especially now that things like place-content and CSS anchor positioning are in play.

#anchor positioning #flexbox #grid #layout

3 months ago

Improved observability with Application Logs

https://go.clerk.com/zAB2TdY

See Every Auth Event Across Your App in Real Time — Clerk's new Application Logs streams a reverse-chronological feed of auth, billing, and org events. Filter by event type, actor, subject, trace ID, or date range. Click any entry for full metadata and a JSON payload. Available on all plans.

3 months ago

State of CSS 2026

https://survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey/state-of-css/2026

🗳️ The State of CSS Survey for 2026 is Now Open — This year’s edition covers fewer features, meaning you should be able to get through it quicker. It focuses “on the ones that matter most”, adding that in an age of AI-assisted coding “maybe doing less — but doing it better — is how those of us who still insist on hand-coding [..] can stay competitive”.

3 months ago

Patrick - What's missing in CSS layout

https://patrickbrosset.com/articles/2026-05-20-whats-missing-in-css-layout/

What's Missing in CSS Layout — Patrick, drawing from the results of last year’s State of CSS survey, explores the friction points of modern web design and layout, looking at what gaps are left for CSS to fill.

3 months ago

Google might have just killed websites

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpk7soxvOMY

▶  Google Might Have Just Killed Websites — Post I/O, Kevin talks about the inflection point we find ourselves at, with AI scraping devaluing websites en masse, and AI summaries removing the need to click — asking what this means long term. There’s related reading to be found in the YouTube description.

#education

3 months ago

CSS vs. JavaScript • Josh W. Comeau

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/animation/css-vs-javascript/

CSS vs. JavaScript — When it comes to animation performance, which performs better, and when? Josh takes a look at the nuances involved and the performance implications of different animation strategies.

3 months ago

Declarative partial updates | Blog | Chrome for Developers

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/declarative-partial-updates

Chrome Introduces Declarative Partial Updates — Chrome 148 introduces (behind a flag) two experimental features for declarative partial updates: <template for> brings JS-free templating into your markup, while setHTML() and streamHTML() lets you safely stream HTML blocks into the DOM out of document order. Polyfills are offered for both.

3 months ago

HTML to PDF API: Production Pipelines with Foxit

https://developer-api.foxit.com/developer-blogs/api-guides-tutorials/pdf-services-api/html-to-pdf-api-foxit-conversion-pipeline/

Your Puppeteer Setup Breaking at 500+ PDFs a Night? — Foxit's HTML-to-PDF API handles rendering, fonts, and batch concurrency so you don't run a Chrome fleet in production.

3 months ago

Maybe Don’t Rely on Google’s “Modern Web Guidance”

https://adrianroselli.com/2026/05/maybe-dont-rely-on-googles-modern-web-guidance.html

Maybe Don’t Rely on Google’s “Modern Web Guidance” — Last week we shared news of Google’s new set of LLM skills designed to help build modern web apps. Adrian has some thoughts, recommending we “probably ignore” for… a few reasons.

3 months ago

Don't put aria-label on generic elements like divs - Manuel Matuzovic

https://www.matuzo.at/blog/2026/aria-label-generic-elements

Don't Put aria-label on Generic Elements Like divs — Explains why slapping aria-label on a plain <div> or <span> is both a spec violation and tricky in practice. There are exceptions, but screen readers across browsers and operating systems show wildly inconsistent results.

3 months ago

Getting Started with Vector Search in EDB Postgres

https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/getting-started-vector-search-edb-postgres

Add Semantic Search to Your App Without a Separate Vector Database — EDB Postgres supports pgvector for AI semantic search in existing infrastructure, meaning no separate vector database.

#edb postgres #vector search #semantic ai #embedding generation #similarity search #ai integration

3 months ago

Font metrics calculator for font-size-adjust

https://clagnut.com/sandbox/font-size-adjust.html

font-size-adjust-calculator: A Font Metrics Calculator for the font-size-adjust Property — A straightforward, no-frills tool — just upload a font in TTF, OTF, WOFF, or WOFF2 format, and plug in some optional variable font settings, and it will provide a suitable value for the font-size-adjust property.

3 months ago

GitHub - humanwhocodes/tailwind-csstree: CSSTree syntax for Tailwind

https://github.com/humanwhocodes/tailwind-csstree

Tailwind CSSTree: CSSTree Syntax for Tailwind — A JS package that allows you to use the syntax from CSSTree (a parser/walker/generator for CSS) in Tailwind projects. You can use it directly with CSSTree and it's compatible with the ESLint CSS Plugin.

3 months ago

devins.page/dev.css

https://tangled.org/devins.page/dev.css/

dev.css: CSS to Make Any Plain HTML Modern and Responsive — Inspired by new.css, a set of default styles for standard HTML – potentially useful for a simple blog, an “about” site, or similar. Demo page.

#framework #lightweight #css #classless #stylesheet #git

3 months ago

GitHub - loggerhead/json4u

https://github.com/loggerhead/json4u#readme

JSON For You: JSON Visualization and Processing Tool — Includes graph and table view modes, nested parsing, support for jq, and ability to import/export CSV. We see a lot of tools like this but the output here (above) is particularly elegant. Try it here.

3 months ago