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Think before you reach for that div

Sep 24, 2025 · 5 min read · In the past, web user interfaces were constructed largely using <div> and <span> elements. These are generic block and inline elements that really were your only option other than <p> and a few other elements. In 2014, when HTML5 was released as a W3...

Is vibe coding the future?

Mar 23, 2025 · 4 min read · The concept of “vibe coding” was first introduced by Andrej Karpathy in an X post from February 2025: There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists...

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How to Programmatically Highlight Text with the CSS Custom Highlight API

Jan 15, 2025 · 9 min read · You can highlight text in the browser by clicking and dragging through the desired text. And sometimes this works fine. But there are times when you’ll want to programmatically highlight some text in an HTML document. In this article, I’ll discuss a ...

4 years of "Modern CSS"

Oct 27, 2024 · 3 min read · It's October 2024, and I am celebrating four years as a published author. According to Amazon, Modern CSS was published on October 7, 2020. Modern CSS actually started out as a self-published book on Leanpub (a great platform for self-publishing book...

Beyond breakpoints: Leveraging user preference media queries in CSS

Oct 22, 2024 · 5 min read · If you build web sites or apps, chances are you work with media queries. These handy CSS tools allow you to adjust your layout depending on the size of the device. They are a key part of responsive design. You can query based on the width of the devi...