3D Layered Text: The Basics
A client asked me to create a bulging text effect. With a bit of cleverness and some advanced CSS, I managed to get a result I’m genuinely proud of, which is covered in this three-part series.
Expansion Joints
Highlights from Git 2.51
The open source Git project just released Git 2.51. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
An Interactive Guide to SVG Paths
SVG gives us many different primitives to work with, but by far the most powerful is the element. Unfortunately, it’s also the most inscrutable, with its compact Regex-style syntax. In this tutorial, we’ll demystify this infamous element and see some of the cool things we can do with it!
Beyond The Hype: What AI Can Really Do For Product Design — Smashing Magazine
AI tools are improving fast, but it’s still not clear how they fit into a real product design workflow. Nikita Samutin walks through four core stages — from analytics and ideation to prototyping and visual design — to show where AI fits and where it doesn’t, illustrated with real-world examples.
Beyond Booleans
What is the type of 2 + 2 = 4?
Summer fasterthanlime update
There are news! Cool Bear's hot tip TL;DR: If you’re a patron or sponsor, check your Profile page to get detailed explainers of every perk. You’ll need to log in. Duh. Here are all the changes I’m implementing, summarized as a table: Before After 📚 Articles remain exclusive for 6 months Early access ( couple weeks ) for Silver tier 🎞️ No early access for video Video early access on Patreon and web
The Psychology Of Color In UX And Digital Products — Smashing Magazine
Rodolpho Henrique guides you through the essential aspects of color in digital design and user experience, from the practical steps of creating effective and scalable color palettes to critical accessibility considerations.
MadeYouReset: An HTTP/2 vulnerability thwarted by Rapid Reset mitigations
A new HTTP/2 denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability called MadeYouReset was recently disclosed by security researchers. Cloudflare HTTP DDoS mitigation, already protects from MadeYouReset.
On Accessibility Conformance, Design Systems, and CSS "Base" Units
My brain can't help but try to make connections between seemingly disparate ideas. And that's what happened yesterday when I read:
GPT-5 in GitHub Copilot: How I built a game in 60 seconds
How GitHub’s new MCP server and GPT-5 are revolutionizing developer workflows — with live build examples.
Q1 2025 Innovation Graph update: Bar chart races, data visualization on the rise, and key research
Discover the latest trends and insights on public software development activity on GitHub with the quarterly release of data for the Innovation Graph, updated through March 2025.
We Might Need Something Between Root and Relative CSS Units for "Base Elements"
I've come to realize that perhaps we need to have a unit between root and relative values. This would bring about a whole new possibility when creating reusable components.
The anatomy of an activation: How Figma Commons brought design to the public
As Figma stepped into its next chapter, we wanted to celebrate in a way that kept that idea front and center.
Team OKRs in Action
OKRs have become a popular way to connect strategy with execution in large organizations. But when they are set in a top‑down cascade, they often lose their meaning. Teams receive objectives they didn’t help create, and the result is weak commitment and little real change. High‑performing teams work in another way. They define their own objectives in an organization that uses a collaborative proce
GitHub Availability Report: July 2025
In July, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
From private to public: How a United Nations organization open sourced its tech in four steps
Learn how the International Telecommunication Union made the switch to open source, and how you can too!
Creating AI agent solutions for warehouse data access and security
In this post, we explore the ways we’re evolving Meta’s data warehouse to facilitate productivity and security to serve both human users and AI agents. We detail how we’re developing agents that help users making data access requests to get to the data they need, and that help data owners process requests and maintain security. […]
From Line To Layout: How Past Experiences Shape Your Design Career — Smashing Magazine
Your past shapes who you are as a designer, no matter where your career began or how unexpected your career path may have been. Stephanie Campbell shows how those lessons can sharpen your instincts, strengthen collaboration, and help you become a better designer today.
The three types of AI bot traffic and how to handle them
Bots account for over 20% of all web traffic. A quarter of that is AI crawlers alone. But not all bots are bad. Some are key to how your site gets discovered. Learn how AI bots shape visibility and what happens if you block them.
How Coxwave delivers GenAI value faster with Vercel
CSS-Questions
CSS-Questions is a mini site where you can test your CSS knowledge with over 100 questions.
8 tips for designers building branded templates in Figma Buzz
To create self-serve templates that bend—but don’t break—brand designers need to consider work through a marketing lens.
The Reformist CTO’s Guide to Impact Intelligence
The productivity of knowledge workers is hard to quantify and often decoupled from direct business outcomes. The lack of understanding leads to many initiatives, bloated tech spend, and ill-chosen efforts to improve this productivity. Technology leaders need to avoid this by developing an intelligence of the business impact of their work across a network connecting output to proximate and downstre