Hi 👋 — I am Abishek Jakhar. I work as a Senior Software Engineer at Coinbase, and I also run my product called FrontPrep, which helps candidates prepare for frontend engineer interviews. I have interviewed many candidates in my professional career at Coinbase…

Recreating the famous Dino game by Google using pure CSS, and playable with the keyboard

Safari TP 240 becomes the first to ship the revert-rule CSS keyword, which rolls the rule back to when it didn’t have its current value.

A fancy reveal animation powered by clip-path: shape()

We’re going to build a set of nested <details> elements that behave like nested menus. Click a top-level link, drill down into a submenu, which can drill down into another submenu, etc. Think of them as nesting dolls… without the shrinking size. We take off…

We’ve done posts like this for CSS, but JavaScript deserves the same dangnabit! Especially as JavaScript does a better job of versioning itself anyway. We’ll cover new stuff in the language itself, but being a JavaScript practitioner involves more than the…

A new property to easily create CSS shapes while preserving borders, shadows, outlines, etc

Chrome 147 ships contrast-color() (the Color Level 5 version that only resolves to black or white), making it baseline.

Visual effects like those produced by SVG <filter>s used to live in the “here be dragons” zone for me. I’m more of a tech, not an artist, so I usually steer clear of anything designery like UI, layout, typography, etc. My strength lies in building compact…

I was very lucky to get to compete in Syntax’s MadCSS Battle recently. I got rightfully ousted in the 2nd round by Scott himself! See the outcome of the battle in the image below.

An SVG-to-CSS converter to easily transform SVG shapes into CSS shapes

A five-layer enforcement system for semantic correctness in LLM-generated React components

The conversation about AI and coding work is full of highs.

A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.

TanStack Start is one of the newest web frameworks, and its popularity is rising quickly. Start is a thin server-side layer that sits atop TanStack Router and provides features like server functions, API endpoints, and server-side rendering. I wrote a three…

Firefox 150 ships revert-rule, which rolls the rule back to when it didn’t have its current value. It’ll be Baseline once Chrome 148 ships.