In many products, setting notification channels on mute is a default, rather than an exception. The reason for that is their high frequency, which creates disruptions and eventually notification fatigue, when any popping messages get dismissed instantly. There is a good reason for it: high frequency of notifications. In usability testing, it’s the most frequent […]
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This is the fourth post in a series about the new CSS shape() function. So far, we’ve covered the most common commands you will use to draw various shapes, including lines, arcs, and curves. This time, I want to introduce you to two more commands: close and move. They’re fairly simple in practice, and I
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WordPress in 2025 isn’t thriving — it’s rotting. Bloated, outdated, and hijacked by commercial greed, the world’s most popular CMS has become a cautionary tale of innovation gone stale. If you’re still building on WordPress, you’re clinging to a corpse.
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If you often just obsessively nudge pixels until your sanity starts to fray… This painfully relatable (and slightly unhinged) journey through the 7 stages of pushing pixels is for you! If you’ve ever cried over a 0.5px misalignment, this one’s your therapy session.
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Once upon a time, CSS was purely presentational. It imperatively handled the fonts, colors, backgrounds, spacing, and layouts, among other styles, for markup languages. It was a language for looks, doing what it was asked to, never thinking or making decisions. At least, that was what it was made for when Håkon Wium Lie proposed
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The web isn’t dying because of AI—it’s drowning in a sea of templates. Platforms like Squarespace, Wix, and Shopify have made building a site easier than ever—but at the cost of creativity, originality, and soul. If every website looks the same, does design even matter anymore?
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Four years ago, I wrote an article titled Minding the “gap”, where I talked about the CSS gap property, where it applied, and how it worked with various CSS layouts. At the time, I described how easy it was to evenly space items out in a flex, grid, or multi-column layout, by using the gap
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This article is a sponsored by Lyssna We’ve all been there: you pour your heart and soul into conducting meticulous user research. You gather insightful data, create detailed reports, and confidently deliver your findings. Yet, months later, little has changed. Your research sits idle on someone’s desk, gathering digital dust. It feels frustrating, like carefully
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Adam Wathan has (very cleverly) built Tailwind with CSS Cascade Layers, making it extremely powerful for organizing styles by priority. @layer theme, base, components, utilities; @import ‘tailwindcss/theme.css’ layer(theme); @import ‘tailwindcss/utilities.css’ layer(utilities); The core of Tailwind are its utilities. This means you have two choices: The default choice The unorthodox choice The default choice The default
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For many of us, July is the epitome of summer. The time for spending every free minute outside to enjoy the sun and those seemingly endless summer days, whether it’s in a nearby park, by a lake, or on a trip exploring new places. So why not bring a bit of that summer joy to
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