"Oops… #CSS got away from me, send halp!" 🎥 video out now a 25m tik-talk just given at @cascadiajs.com ⤷ nerdy.dev/oops-css-got...

Oops CSS Got Away From Me Send Halp At Cascadiajs 2025 · October 12, 2025

You can now watch my talk from CascadiaJS 2025 3 weeks ago 🏻 Watch on YouTube

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Wrote a post about container queries in web components, and how that led me to contributing to WebKit for the first time frehner.me/blog/fixing-...

CSS uses a complex algorithm to decide how to animate transforms. If you get it wrong, as many folks do, you end up with an unnatural animation. Here's how it works, and how to avoid the pitfalls. jakearchibald.com/2025/animati...

Animating zooming using CSS: transform order is important… sometimes

How to get the right transform animation.

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Headline: "Polaris—unified and for the web" The work: - Align components across multiple teams w focus on web - Extremely light "in-house" framework - Automatic updates for Apps - Maintain or exceed UX quality - Docs, templates, CLI - AI, MCP - "Polaris" So much more to come.

Shopify Polaris is now built on web components. My team and I have been working on this for a while and it's been a lot of fun to "embrace the platform"! shopify.dev/beta/next-ge... Lots of things learned, lots of fun edge cases discovered (hello moving web components to iFrames in Firefox)

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Learn about Polaris, Shopify's next-gen ui toolkit.

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Been jamming on these interesting iframe and custom element issues this week. Important if you are building a custom element framework.

Jake Archibald@jakearchibald.com · last yr.

A bit niche, but here's fun Firefox gotcha with custom elements and iframe documents jakearchibald.com/2025/firefox...

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