✅ Top Pens of 2024 on CodePen

Plenty of superb inspiration, demos, and neat tricks on show here. Whether that’s a neat parallax effect, a retro VHS look achieved with CSS, a rad web component that adds particles to your pointer, or this 3D image carousel. Lots of cool stuff to dig into.

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✅ Astro 5.2

Astro 5.2 is now available! The first minor release of 2025 includes Tailwind 4 support, a new way to access config values in your pages, better trailing slash handling, and support for external redirects.

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✅ Tailwind CSS v4.0

Version 4 is “optimized for performance and flexibility”, takes full advantage of modern web platform features, and is now CSS-first, moving away from a JS-based configuration. There’s lot of detail to dig into here.

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✅ Interop 2024 Brings More Features to Baseline

As Interop 2024 draws to a close, this post reflects on the most successful year ever for the project. It concluded with all experimental browsers reporting a score of 99, with the stable versions not far behind. This success means that a number of features are now Baseline Newly available.

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🥰 You can now register a .channel domain via Google Registry

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✅ From Pain to Productivity: How I Learned to Code with My Voice

After developing severe hand pain, Salma sought an alternative way to code — she turned to voice control as a solution. Here she outlines the journey of trying different tools, the accessibility considerations, and her new workflow. She also chatted with Kevin Powell about this change.

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🪟 Microsoft says it has improved text contrast of rendered text in all Chromium browsers on Windows

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