Andrew Aquino
@aqandrew.com
frontend engineer, CSS enjoyer. obsessed with guitar and cookery. he/him 🇵🇭 https://aqandrew.com/
I would absolutely fucking love to own this but it is $1,500. And it is worth at least that but sadly a purchase of that size gets in the way of my sole reason for being alive: to transfer wealth from my employer to my landlord.
📝 New CSS Article! I did a quick exploration of the new "Gap Decorations" thing, and I ended up doing a lot of fancy stuff except for decorating the gaps 😅 master.dev/blog/lets-pl... Read my latest article to learn a lot of nice tricks around this feature.
Let’s Play With Gap Decorations!
Let’s take a look at a quite new CSS feature: Gap Decorations. As its name suggests, it allows us to decorate gaps across different layout types (e.g., flexbox, grid, and multi-column). With a few lin...
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This is absolutely beautiful and so well done: if you want to understand how a retractable pen (or lighter or candy dispenser) works mechanically this site will explain it to you. https://mechanical-penci...
🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.
This is a call for your creativity! 🫵 Everyone seems to be so excited about HTML-in-Canvas, and understandably so. Have you seen all the impressive demos developers have been sharing? We've started collecting some examples: github.com/GoogleChrome... Add your own demos!🎨 🎉
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gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 5mo agoremember when the IRS put out a a free online tax filing system where you could just do your taxes through the IRS and it was actually well made and was pretty well recieved and then the tax filing industry and Republicans killed it and now you have to use TurboTax again
Got app toolbar in Safari to dynamically use current colors on randoma11y.com - took me 6 hours longer than I expected to figure out but I think it was worth it. Before and after video.
Pretty simple "magic gem" mesh using Three.js convex hull and TSL for materials. This sort of object has always been satisfying to me. Really simple stuff.
I wanted a way to explore Unicode by visual similarity, not just by name or codepoint, so I built Charcutrie. It lets you browse characters that look alike, search across scripts and symbols, and even sketch a shape to find matching glyphs. (pretty badly for now :D) charcuterie.elastiq.ch#U+221E
2. 1000 mph is the approximate surface motion at the equator, but it's less at other latitudes (0 mph at poles!) 3. The rotation rate is about 15 degrees / hour (i.e., 360 degrees / 24 hours), so for a one-minute video, it's only 0.25 degrees of rotation -- would be very hard to notice! 2/2
Been thinking about how much JavaScript we ship for basic UI patterns. Wrote it up. Anchor positioning, Popover API, Scroll-Driven Animations and more — what they replace and what's still missing 👉 blog.gitbutler.com/the-great-cs...
The Great CSS Expansion
CSS now does what Floating UI, GSAP ScrollTrigger, Framer Motion, and react-select used to require JavaScript for. Here is exactly how much that saves, why these libraries were painful beyond their si...
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Real DOM content in a canvas: fully searchable, translatable, inspectable. You can have forms, add WebGL effects & much more. Imagine if this was a customizable select 🤯 A little WIP exploration (not finished) for a very exciting API. github.com/WICG/html-in...
Just released heerich.js, a tiny voxel engine that renders 3D scenes to SVG ╬ Boolean ops ◮ Oblique & perspective 𝑥 Zero dependencies ◌ Pure vector output, infinite scaling Named after Erwin Heerich's geometric cardboard sculptures. meodai.github.io/heerich/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=jndl...
Heerich Website Demo
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Safari 26.4 is here! webkit.org/blog/17862/w... Grid Lanes. WebTransport. Keyboard Lock API. And _tons_ of fixes & improvements. Please read the introduction to our article to learn what we’ve been up to…
WebKit Features for Safari 26.4
March has a way of bringing a lot of new things to WebKit — and this year is no exception.
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Vite's new plugin registry is live! 🎉 Browse @vite.dev, @rolldown.rs, and Rollup plugins from the teams and the community. Filter by version compatibility to find plugins that work with your setup. And if you are a maintainer, you can add your plugin easily too registry.vite.dev
Vite Plugin Registry | Discover plugins for your build tools
Discover plugins for Vite, Rolldown, and Rollup
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Spec proposal merged. HTML video and audio lazy loading is now a web standard. github.com/whatwg/html/... html.spec.whatwg.org#the-video-el... html.spec.whatwg.org#the-audio-el...
✍️ New post: The Shape of Friction I wrote a short blog post reply to @davatron5000.bsky.social’s recent post (👏) about generative AI, friction, and people. matthiasott.com/notes/the-sh...
The Shape of Friction · Matthias Ott
Web design engineer, UX designer, teacher, and speaker – helping teams build websites and digital products with a focus on CSS, accessibility, and performance.
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not sure what i've done to make the youtube algo push me a video of a jazz ensemble composed entirely of extremely talented high school students from across the country performing a piece one of them wrote called "dracula flow 6" but hot damn look at these kids go www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugnu...
"Dracula Flow 6" | Jazz | 2026 National YoungArts Week
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Issue Five of The HTML Review is here! Get to your browser for 15 excellent new pieces of web-based literature and art thehtml.review/05/
DOOM fully rendered in CSS. Every surface is a <div> that has a background image, with a clipping path with 3D transforms applied. Of course CSS does not have a movable camera, so we rotate and translate the scene around the user.