It’s a Wednesday afternoon. You’re halfway through a PR review when a Slack message pops in from the platform team: “Hey, your export service pods keep getting OOM-killed. Memory climbs to around 3.8GB before Kubernetes restarts them. Happening a few times…

This is Part 2 of a two-part series. Part 1 covered the core mental model of backpressure, why highWaterMarkisn’t a safety net, the .pipe()to pipeline() migration, and why async/awaitdoesn’t solve data volume problems. We also fixed the immediate crisis:…

Seventy percent of websites still fail basic WCAG contrast checks in 2025. After years of design system tooling, accessibility linters, and JavaScript libraries, nothing moved the needle. We didn’t need better libraries. We needed better CSS. `contrast-color()`…

When Chrome Canary implemented the anchor attribute, which enabled us to establish anchor relationships using HTML instead of CSS, I thought that it was an awesome idea. However, it seems that it won’t be standardized, and that Chrome has removed it along…

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CSS has introduced functions so authors can encapsulate and reuse property behaviors across their style sheets without duplicating the code or polluting the DOM with single-use intermediate --_variables1.

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Chrome 149 upgrades shape-outside to support rect() and xywh() (now Baseline) as well as path() and shape() (no other web browsers support these ones).

Chrome 149 becomes the first to implement CSS Gap Decorations.

The @counter-style at-property in CSS helps us shift from browser defaults to user-defined web styling for list markers. Like instead of the bullet-points of unordered lists and numbers of ordered lists, you can define any marker glyphs you want. But it’s…

In the last article, we covered a few ways for generating character strings to be used for data obfuscation. We looked at the counter style systems: symbolic, alphabetic, and numeric. Now, let’s get into even more uses of @counter-style and discover additional…

Short story: `pipeline()` over `.pipe()` and destroy what you create.

Here's a brand new approach to creating staggered animations in CSS using a single progress value, allowing for smooth linkage to various inputs like scrolling. By utilizing a mathematical formula, it enhances control over animated elements without isolating…

Safari TP 245 ships the :host:has() CSS compound selector.

Each pseudo element plays a distinct role in how the view transition animates. The browser does most of the heavy lifting though, which makes it a little hard to see what’s actually happening under the hood.

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Using our 3, 2, 1 state system, we can make popovers animate on

This has been a long time coming, and I could not be more excited it’s finally here. And I know exactly who to thank for it. Our customers have been telling us to do this for a while now: Probably don’t call it Frontend anymore, you have a lot more offerings.…

Safari TP 246 adds support for <image> values in light-dark() and three or more values in color-mix() (lacks Chrome support).

There are some real advantages to variable scope and evaluation scope that you get with @function in CSS.

View Transitions are of unique help in applying an animation to an element even when you are literally removing it from the DOM.