Uh oh, just finished designing a new css library.. will share about it when the site and examples are ready to share.
Adam Argyle
@nerdy.dev
Shopify design-engineer 🎙️ co-host on @whiskey.fm 🥃 prior Google Chrome, Google Cloud, CSSWG, CSS Podcast, Bad @ CSS Creator of VisBug, open-props.style, prop-for-that, gradient.style, transition.style & more UI, UX, CSS, HTML, JS https://nerdy.dev
Oops. I invented a new CSS shrink-wrap technique and blogged about it. blog.codepen.io/2026/09/11/s...
Shrink-wrap Text with `position-anchor`
Normal text wrapping can leave big gaps in your container, which can become even more exaggerated with the new-ish CSS values of text-wrap: balance and text-wrap: pretty. You almost certainly want …
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Waiting for folks to do this with their app macro layout
Bramus@bram.us · last wk.Back in June I shared a demo of a grid that smoothly animates on resize without JS or View Transitions. I finally sat down to write up how it works: CSS Anchor Positioning + scoped anchors + regular CSS transitions. → brm.us/animated-grid
Great news! The CSS sibling-count() and sibling-index() functions are now Baseline Newly Available! I.e implemented in all major browsers.
sibling-count() and sibling-index() - Web platform features explorer
The sibling-count() and sibling-index() CSS functions return integers that are useful to style elements based on their positions among siblings or on the number of siblings, for example as part of a c...
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I asked 100 devs what their favorite framework was, and had @nerdy.dev try and guess the top four answers.
Joined the Scotch Malt Whisky Society #stoked join me?! nerdy.dev/scotch-malt-...
Scotch Malt Whisky Society Member
New member of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society . Join me?
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Tetris theme Songs of storms Darlin Cory #BanjoFeed
Adam Argyle@nerdy.dev · last mo.It’s so expressive! The most expressive instrument I know how to play Here’s a medley 😅
Tiny little stateful viewports broadcasting, lol I love it 🤘💀
CSS by T. Afif@css-only.dev · 4w agoA responsive CSS grid, some Scroll-Driven Animations, and a touch of magic. The perfect recipe for a cool CSS-only hover effect! 🤩 css-tip.com/hover-proxim... One fancy demo (among many) we can create using modern CSS.
Guppy Pimpin In Trip Pants While Debuggin IE5 ep 251 of @whiskey.fm this episode tracks @robbiethewagner.dev and I through our origins: MySpace band sites, odd jobs, music & other whatnot nerdy.dev/www-ep251-gu...
WWW Ep251 Guppy Pimpin In Trip Pants While Debugging Ie5
Ep #251 Guppy Pimpin In Trip Pants While Debugging IE5 Robbie and I do a mostly whatnot episode about our path getting into tech, playing in bands, and getting into trouble. We sip Glen Morangie "A Tale of Ice Cream" and share some stories. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · appl…
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y'all're gonna make me post more banjo videos… i've been meaning to record me playing songs from my banjo-songbook.netlify.app because sometimes i need a little nudge to remember one, but once i catch a whiff of a riff my hands remember everything.
Banjo Song Tracker
Adam's banjo songbook - a collection of songs I can play
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Adam Argyle@nerdy.dev · last mo.It’s so expressive! The most expressive instrument I know how to play Here’s a medley 😅
“sharp-but-warm, dry when it fits” That how i write and talk? I don’t hate it as an honest review
Takin a quick 20m banjo break in my favorite summer spot, the porch.
Wild trick presented by @kevinpowell.co when you apply a change on :hover, and the new style stick after you move the cursor away. Inspired by @nerdy.dev . Absolutely wild little CSS trick! www.youtube.com/shorts/wazlB... #css
Make a hover state stick forever with this simple trick
YouTube video by Kevin Powell
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These won't start hitting YouTube until next week, but figured I'd give an early release for people following this account, since they've been answering the questions that have helped make this happen 🙂 My very first guest was @nerdy.dev
#CSS scroll-axis-lock: none unhinged 2d scroll gesture freedom 🤘🏻 nerdy.dev/css-scroll-a...
Scroll Axis Lock
Go off the scroll rails with one CSS property
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I had a blogspot in 2011, it's pretty fun to go 'member what dev and design articles were like then and what we were thinking about nerdy.dev/ranting-devi...
Ranting Devigner
My Blogspot in 2011: Ranting Devigner see what tech articles I was reading lol dev and design rants I was making also lol Devigner = Designer + Developer Before " Design Engineer " was coo
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"Are tiny icons our collective future in interfacing with computers? (Personally, I hope not.)" I also hope not too… - blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/ai-aest... by @jim-nielsen.com
Really curious what the results of this one will be. So far, I've been pretty terrible at predicting the top result 😅 What is your favourite color format in CSS? asked-100-devs.netlify.app
Asked 100 devs: What is your favorite color format in CSS?
Answer one question. Help decide the top 5.
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🎙️ live at React Miami with @christinacodes.dev nerdy.dev/www-ep250-wi... on @whiskey.fm
WWW Ep250 With Christina Martinez
Ep #250 Live at React Miami with Christina Martinez Robbie , Christina and I chat fun coding experiments, personifying agents, OpenClaw, hot takes and a little bit of whatnot. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple
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Yay! Diagonal scrolling, this can make touch scrolling be used for more gesture style interactions, that feeling the item is stuck beneath your touch
IntentToShip@intenttoship.dev · 2mo agoBlink: Intent to Prototype and Ship: scroll-axis-lock
If you're dealing with SVG icons you probably know the pain of overwriting colors. There's a new spec in the making that allows controlling CSS variables from "the outside". And it's shipping in Firefox already! https://drafts.csswg.org...
Live at React Miami with @joelhooks.com on @whiskey.fm nerdy.dev/www-ep249-wi...
WWW Ep249 With Joel Hooks
Ep #249 Live at React Miami with Joel Hooks Robbie , Joel and I chat about Pi , OpenClaw, JoelClaw , YOLO mode, AGI, custom harnesses and a little bit of whatnot. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple
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