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First Shopify project shipped. Went in a bit blind but the Rails templating I do daily made Liquid click faster than expected. The logic is surprisingly similar. Started from a purchased theme but there was plenty of custom work. luxelle.online

Today I published the second update of this month to the Practical Accessibility course content. I have at least two or three more updates coming this April. As I promised, I want to keep the course as up-to-date and as relevant to your work as possible. Get access @ practical-accessibility.today

The Practical Accessibility Course

A get-right-down-to-it online course for Web designers and developers who want to start creating more accessible Web user interfaces and digital products today

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🎉 CSS Wrapped 2025 is here! Once again, it has been an AMAZING year for CSS and UI. Go check out chrome.dev/css-wrapped-... to see all CSS/UI features Chrome shipped this year. Each features comes with a small explanation and demo for you to play with.

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The majority of us are a bunch of self taught people with rather spotty knowledge and that's fine! Kilian (also self taught) is here to share some of the computer science fundamentals you probably are missing with the aim to improve your code in the long term. piccalil.li/blog/program...

Programming principles for self taught front-end developers

The majority of us are a bunch of self taught people with rather spotty knowledge and that's fine! Kilian (also self taught) is here to share some of the computer science fundamentals you probably are...

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I've somehow only now realized that if you want to transition between themes, view transitions make it incredibly easy... Translates like I did here are a bit over the top, but clip-path opens up some fun possibilities.

Just launched some 🔥 updates for zwartopwit.be using Rails + Turbo Frames with flow parameters. Used Turbo Frames to conditionally load modular sections for: – The new car wrap landing page – Updated folder options page Really impressed by how powerful Turbo can be.

Just enrolled in @sarasoueidan.com ’s Practical Accessibility course — excited to level up! 🙌 Curious to hear from the community: What are your top 3 most accessible fonts? And maybe an honorable mention too? 👀 Always looking to design with more inclusivity in mind.

✨ In my upcoming animations course, we build an intuition for Bézier curves with a mini-game: your job is to get your green ball to have the same easing as the pink ball, by dragging and adjusting the curve:

Just caught the latest General Musings by @kevinpowell.co — really refreshing to hear him talk openly about a tough week. Nice reminder that even people we look up to have their struggles. And hey, turns out we’ve got more than just CSS in common.

It was pointed out to me that you can assign elements tags... they've added an "accessibility" menu, and in there, you can add tags. So, they thought about it, and then hid it in a menu most people will never look at (including the people who made their Config site, and official templates).

Accessibility menu in Figma Sites, which allows you to assign a tag to a selected element.The accessibility menu, once you select "tag", showing paragraph and heading levels.
Kevin Powell@kevinpowell.co · last yr.

During my livestream yesterday, I talked about Figma Sites for a little bit. I've broken it off into a short, stand-alone video. I don't normally like bashing a company, but when a company of Figma's size makes a product this bad, I think it's important to call them out on it. youtu.be/ZsFIvULxkHI