I've heard that CSS subgrid is difficult to progressively enhance – and I disagree! Here's how I create subgrid fallbacks with one small addition. youtu.be/2ESqkg20JaE Join my @smashingconf.com workshop for more maintainable CSS! smashingconf.com/online-works... #CSS

CSS Progressive Enhancement with Subgrid

YouTube video by Winging It

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I've enjoyed re-visiting "we created life & it killed us" fiction, asking "what if it's hype"? For the most part, the stories still work. Skynet could use a basic decision tree & still launch the nukes. But Dr. Frankenstein becomes an excellent unreliable narrator. Maybe he's lying the whole time?

CSS has changed dramatically in the last 6 years, but always building on core principles of resilience & design systems. Join me in October for a 5-day (3-week) @smashingconf.com workshop about how it all fits together, and how to make it work for your team: smashingconf.com/online-works... #CSS

Cascading Style Systems: Resilient & Maintainable CSS — Online Workshops

If you ever feel lost in the CSS weeds, wrestling with the cascade, or you just want to improve your workflow with modern, efficient, and maintainable stylesheets, then this workshop is for you!

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One of the most annoying things since we started styling stuff is when you declare equal padding on the top and bottom of a button or other single-liner, and the spacing isn't equal. Finally, we have a solution with text-box-trim and text-box edge, which are now available in all browser engines!

This CSS property fixes a problem as old as CSS

YouTube video by Kevin Powell

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New butter bell design?

This is a clear result of the cascade resolving (shadow) context before considering element attachment – but I had never tested it before. Interesting. You don't need importance to override inline styles. You can (let's say "just") use a parent context instead! codepen.io/editor/miria... #CSS

Context overrides element-attachment

A code demo by Miriam Suzanne created on CodePen

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Kalshi and Polymarket are bullshit sites for scammers and should be put out of business. Shame on every "legit" institution that's partnered with them.

Dr Dillo PHD@dillo.media · 4w ago

"we can learn so much from these betting sites"

I haven't been following the light/dark toggle discussions, but my uninformed take is pretty simple: Stop Acting Like Design Decisions Have A Correct Answer (and then stop acting like the correct-answer machine is a real thing worth building)

I love "it's just a tool" but we're talking about products with a brand name, while shoveling money in and hoping they give us the good payout. Levers are a tool. Slot machines are a product.

I had a lovely (very full) weekend working with these guys to help pull off their public performance: www.cpr.org/2026/08/13/l... They've been rehearsing for a year, but we only had two days in the gym – to set up, program cues, rehearse with tech, perform 4 shows, & load back out.

Inside a prison theater performance of the courtroom drama, ‘12 Angry Men’

A group of inmates spent a year learning and producing the play for other inmates as part of a prison program.

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If you’ve got questions about how #CSS Grid Lanes work… …so did we! This long debated solution for masonry layout is now available. Follow along as @miriam.codes & @stacykvernmo.com work out how to use it. www.oddbird.net/2026/06/18/w... In June OddNews us19.campaign-archive.com?u=80219aa68d...

Grid Lanes -- The Future of Masonry Layout

This long-debated solution for masonry layout is now available and it's time to figure out how to use it. Join us for a deep dive into the workings of Grid Lanes.

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Based on the first module of the course, I am confident that the full course will be worth the full price. But if you‘ll buy it anyway, why not get it for less now? bsky.app/profile/miri...

Mia [data-css=poetic]@miriam.codes · 2mo ago

Today is the last day to get early bird pricing for the Poetic CSS course! Learn to write & review CSS with confidence. The first module is live, with more coming through the summer & fall. Get the full course as it's ready, without waiting to pay full price: courses.oddbird.net/poetic-css/ #CSS

Today is the last day to get early bird pricing for the Poetic CSS course! Learn to write & review CSS with confidence. The first module is live, with more coming through the summer & fall. Get the full course as it's ready, without waiting to pay full price: courses.oddbird.net/poetic-css/ #CSS

Poetic CSS

Understand CSS as a system — so you can write, review, and maintain web styles with confidence on a timeline and under budget.

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Wrote a post about combining CSS shorthands with custom properties to encapsulate related system tokens. mobalti.com/the-power-of... #CSS

The Power of CSS Shorthands in the Era of Custom Properties | Arby @mobalti

Encapsulating System Tokens with Shorthand Custom Properties.

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picker and measuring a portion of the page (not an element, can measure parts of an image) in Firefox DevTools, always switching to Firefox for those

Going live in ~30m, see you there!

Mia [data-css=poetic]@miriam.codes · 2mo ago

Next week, @stacykvernmo.com and I will be looking at dev tools again – talking about which browser we go to in which situations. Is there an inspector feature that you'll always switch browsers to use? Let us know! And join our live stream for an overview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=INqy... #css

Planning some yeti-lid-friendly tumblers, but I need to get the dimensions precise. These sauce bowls are trimmed to 1/16th-inch steps, to test shrinkage for this clay & glaze. Looks like I'll be aiming for 3 7/16" inside diameter after trimming. 😅 (3 10/16" ID wet)

It seems like a shipping-address form would be make a good standalone web component. I don't suppose one already exists?

Back in the studio #pottery

Next week, @stacykvernmo.com and I will be looking at dev tools again – talking about which browser we go to in which situations. Is there an inspector feature that you'll always switch browsers to use? Let us know! And join our live stream for an overview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=INqy... #css

Inspecting Inspectors: What each browser’s dev tools do best

YouTube video by Winging It

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Product idea: You know how people sell stickers to cover the "recording" light on meta glasses? Well I sell just a "recording" light to put on normal glasses without any camera. No surveillance, it just comes on at random times to uh… huh. There might be problems with this idea.

video podcast idea: you review my personal project JS code, and I review your personal project CSS

The features @miriam.codes has helped bring to CSS (Cascade Layers, Container Queries, Scope) have been rooted in a deep understanding of CSS’ _ethos_. They try to close the gap between how CSS could be used, and how it commonly is. If you want to close that gap in your own work (I do!), sign up

Mia [data-css=poetic]@miriam.codes · 3mo ago

Poetic CSS course is live for early-bird registration! Only available during July. Thanks for your patience, we had some last-minute fixes. #css courses.oddbird.net/poetic-css/

This launches later today, and you should absolutely sign up! Miriam has an absurdly deep knowledge of CSS, and her teaching style is phenomenal. 💯

Mia [data-css=poetic]@miriam.codes · 3mo ago

My "Poetic CSS" course goes live on Wednesday, with an Early Bird discount for the month of July! Here's another "side quest" on using shorthand properties: youtu.be/LNZQmOk3hKk Sign up for email updates (and a drawing for a handmade @OddBird mug): courses.oddbird.net/poetic-css/#... #css

Poetic CSS | Understand CSS as a system — so you can write, review, and maintain web styles with confidence on a timeline and under budget. | courses.oddbird.net/poetic-css/ @miriam.codes

Poetic CSS

Understand CSS as a system — so you can write, review, and maintain web styles with confidence on a timeline and under budget.

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I consider myself a person who knows a lot about CSS... but @miriam.codes' knowledge eclipses mine by ~10,000%. She brings an artistry to the discipline of authoring CSS and I'm sure anyone – whether newbie or old-timer like myself – can learn a lot from her course.

Mia [data-css=poetic]@miriam.codes · 3mo ago

Poetic CSS course is live for early-bird registration! Only available during July. Thanks for your patience, we had some last-minute fixes. #css courses.oddbird.net/poetic-css/

Turns out you can just save the glowing testimonials for after you buy the course. Truly a no-brainer.

Mia [data-css=poetic]@miriam.codes · 3mo ago

Poetic CSS course is live for early-bird registration! Only available during July. Thanks for your patience, we had some last-minute fixes. #css courses.oddbird.net/poetic-css/

Hi, friends. The last 6 years have been a blast, but I just don't like being on The Internet anymore. I'm leaving DevRel, and I wrote a little bit about why. Look after yourselves, and each other. Love, Salma

Goodbye, forever, probably.

I’m leaving developer relations and developer education. Rather than disappear completely unannounced, I wanted to tell you why.

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New on the blog: bell.bz/youll-miss-t...

This here is the entire crux of the issue. We had sensible regulations requiring years of testosterone suppression and hormone therapy to play in women's sports. This had not been a problem for nearly twenty years, including at the olympics. Then the right made it one by straight up lying about it.

Julie Rei Goldstein@julierei.bsky.social · 3mo ago

As a general reminder, Ben Shapiro originally wanted to make "Lady Ballers" as a documentary but had to give up on the idea because no one in the cast would agree to undergo the medical requirements necessary for them to be eligible to participate in competitive Women's sporting events.