Happy New Year! It has been a calm start to the year, as clearly, fewer posts appeared in my timeline. There are still a few interesting reads, mainly in the CSS/Design world. There was exciting hover usage, a good post on text trim and text balance, and my personal favourite - perfection is the enemy. Happy reading!
This is a mix of principles and philosophy sprinkled with life examples. It's a really good read with your morning coffee.
https://www.epicweb.dev/principles
React Hooks for Remote Data Fetching
https://www.npmjs.com/package/swr
Full documentation https://swr.vercel.app/
I don't know, but for me, HTMX feels like messed-up HTML. However, I know that there is loads of love for it. Certainly, it is interesting, and the idea that they don't change much and keep it stable is also great. In any case, this is an interesting post.
https://htmx.org/essays/future/
https://reactrouter.com/tutorials/address-book
This is more like a design post. However, that text box is so confusing. This post explains well all those empty spaces above the text.
https://piccalil.li/blog/why-im-excited-about-text-box-trim-as-a-designer/
Interesting use of the Overrides option in devtools.
https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2024/using-devtools-to-validate-web-performance-improvements/
An elegant way to use :hover > : not(hover)
This will trigger a hover effect on all but not the one currently in focus.
https://nerdy.dev/hover-not-hover-sorry-not-sorry
Solid deep-dive into text wrap, with props balanced and pretty.
https://ishadeed.com/article/balancing-text-css/
For me, it is such a great CSS addition that I simply use Josh Comeau's suggested reset.css, which already has this feature "built-in":
https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/custom-css-reset/
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2024/12/new-front-end-features-for-designers-in-2025/
This includes Details, styleable Selects, Popover and Dialogs, Checkboxes as toggle switches, and more.
https://frontendmasters.com/blog/bone-up-html-2025/
I guess this is good news for the projects with Tailwind.
https://thathtml.blog/2024/12/tailwind-4-a-mea-culpa-moment/
A handy tool to sort out fonts for your project in an easy way and export as CSS, SCSS, Tailwind or even as a JSON for WordPress.
https://landin.gs/tools/type-scale-generator/
With only two lines of CSS, you can change a light theme into a dark theme. Try it in your browser.
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Short and to the point high-level guiding principles on how to tackle accessibility.
https://github.com/Heydon/principles-of-web-accessibility
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/llms-in-2024/
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