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In my earlier post Time Uniform For CSS Animation, I took a note about a way to do CSS animations with time ticks instead of keyframes. It was limited applicable because CSS lacked the ability of doing complex Math calculations. After years of wait, CSS now has enough Math functions supported, particularly mod()…
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Music notation should be as accessible and as fluid as text is on the web. CSS Grid helps us get there.
Mechanical watches that can show a date correctly are pretty rare, and the ones that do are very expensive (starting at $10k). But why? Let me explain.
Transport for London (TfL) has seen a drop in the sale of paper tickets after it made a small change to the ticket machines in London Underground stations.
What is Apple's strategy with CarPlay?
UPDATE October 2024: Since this article was published, members of the CSS Working Group have concluded that all of the grid abilities described here — variable-width tracks, explicit placement, spanning, and subgrids — are worth including in masonry layout, and are possible to implement performantly.
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Somehow we forgot how to center rectangles and must find our way back
Unique identifiers play a crucial role in all applications, from user authentication to resource management. While using a standard UUID will satisfy all your security concerns, there’s a lot we can improve for our users.
CSS Color 4 brings wide gamut color tools and capabilities to the web.
srcset, sizes, picture, source, and how they all fit.
Developing Apple-inspired progressive blur for the web; Technical insights and challenges.
We’ve spent a lot of time thinking about tables. Tables—like plots—are crucial as a last step toward presenting information. There is surprising…
I recently decided to make an app for the Apple Vision Pro (AVP) during a two-week break between jobs. I wanted to explore its potential and learn some new skills. My day job primarily involves low-level firmware; I hadn’t built a user-facing app in a while–my last iOS app experience was back in high school in 2011!…
A month ago, I flew from London to NYC, paid $3500 for a Vision Pro headset at Apple Fifth Avenue, and flew back home. I’ve been using it every day since — here’s what I think. My background, for context: I’ve been working in AR for many years. I built...
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by Hugo Barra (former Head of Oculus at Meta) Friends and colleagues have been asking me to share my perspective on the Apple Vision Pro as a product. Inspired by my dear friend Matt Mullenweg̵…
Try setting the root font-size to `calc(1rem + 0.25vw)` instead of using media queries with fixed breakpoints.
Bauhaus was a german art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that transcended traditional boundaries, boldly embracing the fusion of form and function. The founder of the school, Walter Gropius, believed in the "fundamental unity of the arts" and he anticipated the challenges that 20th-ce
Using Sentinel-1 radar imagery to make out the shapes of our changing seaborne energy system
Todd Klein's online book exploring little-known aspects of comics: lettering, letterers, logo design and more.
We just tagged the first public v4.0.0-alpha so you can start experimenting with it and help us get to a stable release later this year.
A few months ago, I gave a talk on CSS performance at performance.now in Amsterdam. The recording is available online: (You can also read the slides.) This is…
What happens if you take motion blur past its logical extreme? Here are some fun observations and ideas I encountered while trying to answer this question, with an attempt to apply the results in a procedural animation.
At work, one of the things I do pretty often is write print generators in HTML to recreate and replace forms that the company has traditionally done handwritten on paper or in Excel. This allows the company to move into new web-based tools where the form is autofilled by URL parameters from our database, while getting…
Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct - the best kind of correct. I hereby promote you to grade 37. - Number 1.0 (Futurama, S2E15 )
How to implement 1D LUTs to color grayscale thermal vision videos, 3D LUTs for color correct and smart hacks from video games
Successful design systems can and should move more slowly than the products they support—but a deliberate pace doesn’t have to create bottlenecks. Josh Clark shows how to reconcile the needs and speeds of product versus design system.
