The Programmer’s Fulcrum: 15 May, 2026

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"CSS is also more fault-tolerant than JavaScript. This means the entire experience won’t be ruined if something conspires to affect your website or web app loading properly.

Content will be shown if CSS experiences an issue being applied. While it won’t look the way you want it to, it will still be readable by the people requesting it. And that’s the important bit."

Making content-aware components using #CSS :has(), grid, and quantity queries by @eric piccalil.li/blog/making-conten…

#frontend #webdev

Making content-aware components using CSS :has(), grid, and quantity queries

Eric Bailey teaches us how to make a hyper-resilient component that responds not only to the container, but other languages too.

^Piccalilli

Hey, found another fraud taking @codepen demos, copy-pasting the screenshot and code with no mention it's someone else's work.

Oh, bonus, there's a script detecting ad blockers. Yeah, fuck off!

My original from years before codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/bGw…

With a *real* explanation linked. #CSS

Hey all CSS wizards. I need your help.

I would love this bg pattern to be squares instead of little circles (radial-gradient). Is that even possible using pure CSS?

codepen.io/pawelgrzybek/pen/OP…

I have seen that on the ATProto website, but they use SVG for it.
atproto.com

@kevinpowell @css @bramus @chriscoyier 🙏

#css

AT Protocol

^{AT Protocol}

#tinyCSStip

I like shorthands, I find them immensely useful. But it doesn't always make sense to drop it all in the shorthand and to have repetitions. Yeah, you can store that `.2s` in a #CSS variable. But is it really worth it if you're not even using it elsewhere in addition to not being dynamic?

I tried a few and they all sounded like alt-rock band names 😄

#css #color #html #web

RT @vitalyf@twitter.com

A11yphant (a11yphant.com), a great little tool to learn accessibility, one step at a time, with a few easy, medium and hard challenges. #accessibility #html #css

🐦🔗: twitter.com/vitalyf/status/159…

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