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A versal letters is a typographic flourish found in illuminated manuscripts and traditional book design, where it adds visual interest and helps guide a reader’s eye to where they should begin.

Gathered notes on Liquid Glass, Apple’s new design language that was introduced at WWDC 2025. These links are a choice selection of posts and resources that I’ve found helpful for understanding the context of Liquid Glass, as well as techniques for recreating it in code.

State of Devs 2025 survey results are out! Sunkanmi Fafowora highlights a few key results about diversity, health, and salaries.

The many ways to juggle line length when working with text… including two proposed properties that could make it easier in the future.

I was playing around with scroll-driven animations, just searching for all sorts of random things you could do. That’s when I came up with the idea to animate main headings and, using scroll-driven animations, change the headings based on the user’s scroll position.

Layout. It’s one of those easy-to-learn, difficult-to-master things, like they say about playing bass. Not because it’s innately difficult to, […]

The shape() function’s close and move commands may not be ones you reach for often, but are incredibly useful for certain shapes.

Styling the space between layout items — the gap — has typically required some clever workarounds. But a new CSS feature changes all that with just a few simple CSS properties that make it easy, yet also flexible, to display styled separators between your layout items.

Being the bad boy I am, I don’t take Tailwind’s default approach to cascade layers as the “best” one. Over a year experimenting with Tailwind and vanilla CSS, I’ve come across what I believe is a better solution.

An early preview of Chrome 139 includes six new CSS features, including the first hint of custom functions.

Blob, Blob, Blob. What’s the most effective way to create blob shapes in CSS? Turns out, as always, there are many. Let’s compare them together!

KelpUI is new library that Chris Ferdinandi is developing, designed to leverage newer CSS features and Web Components. I’ve enjoyed following Chris as he’s published an ongoing series of articles detailing his thought process behind the library, getting deep into his approach. You really get a clear picture of his strategy and I love it.