This issue of What’s !important is dedicated to our friends in the UK, who are currently experiencing a very miserable 43-day rain streak. Presenting: the five most interesting things to read about CS...
Interop 2026 is officially a thing and there's plenty of new (and even old) CSS features that we can look forward to being cross-browser compatible and consistent! Interop 2026 originally published on...
Lee accepts a challenge: arranging text in a spiral that animates as a vortex on scroll... all in CSS. Spiral Scrollytelling in CSS With sibling-index() originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is pa...
The distinction between "components" and "utilities" seems clear at first glance, but gets a little blurred when working with them in Tailwind. Distinguishing “Components” and “Utili...
Danny has several ideas for how we could use :near(), a proposed pseudo-class that detects when the pointer is near an element. Potentially Coming to a Browser :near() You originally published on CSS-...
Let’s get nuanced in this article and discuss the capabilities of both SVG and raster imaged so that you can make informed decisions in your own work. Loading Smarter: SVG vs. Raster Loaders in Modern...
Browsers don't just let you bookmark web pages. You can also bookmark JavaScript, allowing you to do so much more than merely save pages. A Complete Guide to Bookmarklets originally published on CSS-T...
Read an explanation of the recent CVE-2026-2441 vulnerability that was labeled a "CSS exploit" that "allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page." An E...
TL;DR: We can center absolute-positioned elements in three lines of CSS. And it works on all browsers! Yet Another Way to Center an (Absolute) Element originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part...
Despite what’s been a sleepy couple of weeks for new Web Platform Features, we have an issue of What’s !important that’s prrrretty jam-packed. The web community had a lot to say, it seems, so fasten y...
Choosing between Popover API and Dialog API is difficult because they seem to do the same job, but they don’t! After a bit lots of research, I discovered that the Popover API and Dialog API are wildly...
An event-driven reconciliation pipeline on AWS ran into Lambda timeouts and DynamoDB hot partition keys when batch sizes grew. Learn how a hybrid Step Functions pattern (Lambda for small files, ECS Fa...
As Kubernetes moves from testbeds to production, managers are getting sticker shock from the bills a K8s deployment can incur. Whether hosted in-house or on a cloud provider, who knew cloud nativity w...
Explore how an artifact access plane can improve Kubernetes platform performance, scalability, and security by standardizing how artifacts are governed and delivered, aligning with CNCF ecosystem init...
Is it really a bad thing, though? Maybe not.
