I will explain how my mum inspired this 2026 Mother’s Day scrollytelling experiment — but also, how she inspired my approach to dev and life.

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A Scrollytelling Gift for Mum on Mother’s Day 2026 originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

Mat Marquis on Google pulling the web standards equivalent of U2 album marketing:

As a Chrome user, you’ll have received Gemini Nano in the form of a 4GB transfer recently; no permission asked or required. If you remove it,

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Google’s Prompt API originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

Most grid layouts sit in neat rows, perfectly aligned, like soldiers in formation. But sometimes you want something with more rhythm like, say, a zigzag pattern. Here's how to do it with CSS Grid.

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Making Zigzag CSS Layouts With a Grid + Transform Trick originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

An honest perspective on building local-first web apps in 2026, written for developers who’ve been doing this long enough to be skeptical of silver bullets.

Design always starts with function — function shapes form. But if that function can’t be made completely invisible and people still have to interact with it, it inevitably becomes part of their experience. In this article, Kyrylo Levashov shares four common software design assumptions.

Getting a multi-column of cards to line up equally is is a headache we've all faced, and it gets even harder when working with fixed heights.

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Fixed-Height Cards: More Fragile Than They Look originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

Developers have been experimenting with HTML-in-Canvas, a hexagonal world map-analytics feature, a web-based OS for e-ink devices, replacing image sources using the content property, and more. This is What’s !important #10.

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What’s !important #10: HTML-in-Canvas, Hex Maps, E-ink Optimization, and More originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

Streaming UIs are an easy concept on the surface, but are quite complicated in practice. There are many considerations that need to be accounted for, from layout shifts and motion preferences to proper markup and various states, that may not be instantly obvious. What happens if the stream is interrupted? Can users tab through the UI on the keyboard as it shifts? What ARIA attributes might be needed?

We're getting new functions for generating random numbers in CSS! But the road to get here has been a long and winding one.

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The Importance of Native Randomness in CSS originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

Let’s welcome May with a new collection of desktop wallpapers! Following our monthly tradition, the wallpapers were created by the community for the community and can be downloaded for free. Enjoy!

The contrast() filter function increases or decreases the contrast of an element.

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contrast() originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

The contrast-color() function takes a <color> and returns either black or white, whichever is the most contrasting color for that value.

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contrast-color() originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

My shim might give the powers that be another reason to say native support isn't necessary, or if lots of people use my :nth-letter hack in the wild, the browser gods might recognize the need to implement it for real.

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Let’s Use the Nonexistent ::nth-letter Selector Now originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

AI tools are eliminating the need to “bug” colleagues for help, but the informal interactions they replace are the very scaffolding that builds team trust, belonging, and innovation. Casey Hudetz and Eric Olive explore the research and potential impacts behind that risk and offer practical strategies for maintaining human connection while leveraging AI’s strengths.

Putting CSS’s more recent scrolling animation capabilities to the test to recreate a complex animation of the Apple Vision Pro headset from Apple's website.

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Recreating Apple’s Vision Pro Animation in CSS originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.