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The end of the clearfix hack?

A new value of the display property has landed in Chrome Canary and Firefox Nightlies. In the Editor’s Draft of the CSS Display Module Level 3, display: flow-root is defined as: “The element generates a block container box, and lays out its contents using flow layout. It always establishes a new block formatting…

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Blur Radius Comparison

The most common type of blur used on the web and in design tools is Gaussian blur. There’s many ways to describe how blurry the blur is, and implementations vary so much that a blur in one app may be a completely different size to the blur in another app.

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A Bestiary of Functions for Systems Designers

Whether your game surfaces its numbers to the player or not, odds are it has underlying systems that rely on them, and you use functions to determine how those numbers affect each other. In other words, a mathematical function is usually at the core of the answer to a bunch of frequent game design questions.

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Figma Platform

Today, we’re excited to launch the Figma Platform, a way to improve design workflows by connecting Figma to other tools, scripts and even web apps.

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Chinese Window Lattice and CSS

谁向云端着此亭,檐前树木映窗棂。 -- 释绍嵩《陪赵知府登桃岭山亭》 (image from 中国窗棂) The traditional Chinese window lattice has a symmetrical beauty, as well as a very beautiful formal name -- 窗棂.