The article explains how to design and animate a *circular* menu (that rotates in a circle!) in CSS using offset and animation-composition.

Nice reminder about JavaScript evolving to be more useful from Trevor I. Lasn: The final line there uses what is called the “The nullish coalescing assignment operator assignment operator” in case you need to impress people at parties.

You can animate an .svg and it will play even with an `` or `background-image`, making it a viable GIF replacement if you can pull it off!

There are usually multiple ways to do the same thing on the web. Sometimes... a lot of ways. Which is "better" can be a matter of taste or which abstraction buys the most value. Check out this CSS example and see which you prefer.

One of the nice things about Markdown is that you can just… put HTML in there too. There is no Markdown shortcut for a <div>, but you can just use a <div>. That means you can use use <my-custom-element> as well, bringing the world of Web Components into your writing and creating of content. Deane […]

Cursor has an "auto" mode, "but if you care about cost or predictability, it’s worth picking models manually." says Steve Kinney.

Raymond Camden: It’s been a little while since I last blogged about my favorite web platform feature, Intl. Favorite?! Big words. As someone who does technical writing, though, I get it. Let’s say you have a number, like 392, and you need to display that as megabytes. What is the absolutely correct way to show […]

Cursor is an AI-focused VS Code fork. Here's Steve Kinney with a nice overview of what it offers and how to start getting help out of it right away.

Nicholas C. Zakas: I’m confident that going forward, software engineers will need to relearn how to create detailed tech specs for complex changes. It’s also likely that AI will help write and review these specs before implementing them. It’s time to embrace tech specs again because they can be a key to advancing your career. […]

Postgres creates an execution plan for how to retrieve the data you're asking for in a query. The execution plan is based in part on statistics from your data and indexes it has available. Just the right index and a bit of query tuning can have a huge payoff in performance gains that your users will notice.