Divtober Speedrun

October is the month of “Divtober”, where artists are challenged to draw different things using CSS and a single HTML element. Each day they get a theme to work with. You can find some nice works on CodePen, all tagged #divtober. Here’s a small selection: See the Pen Single div CSS chili garlic sauce by …

Jetson ONE — Personal Electric Aerial Vehicle

(Warning: Spinning Imagery 😵‍💫) Jetson ONE is an ultralight and extremely fun to fly recreational all-electric personal vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft, powered with eight powerful electric motors. For a mere 92,000 USD this baby can be yours. Orders are limited and delivery is expected in 2023. Flight time of 20 minutes. Jetson ONE …

Non-Euclidean Worlds Engine

Here’s a demo of a rendering engine I’ve been working on that allows for non-euclidean worlds. What kind of sorcery is this?! 🤯 I do wonder what would happen when multiple players are walking around simultaneously, and how objects that pass through the tunnels would behave. NonEuclidean (GitHub) → Related: How were the portals in …

HTML with Superpowers

Earlier this year Dave Rupert spoke at An Event Apart’s Spring Summit with a talk on Web Components: It’s the year 2021. Lots of us are building our websites and apps with components and design systems, perhaps leveraging a JavaScript framework to help glue all the pieces together. The web has matured in the last …

W3C TPAC 2021: CSS WG Updates

At (the ongoing) TPAC 2021 — the W3C Annual Conference — the CSS Working Group provided two video updates that summarize some of the ongoing work they’ve been doing. Perfect way to get up to speed in less than 10 minutes Improving CSS Architecture with Cascade Layers, Container Queries, Scope In this video Miriam Suzanne …

PWA Summit 2021 Talk Highlights

The entire livestream of PWA Summit 2021 is available online on YouTube. This is the full livestream of the conference, and includes the keynote, all 9 talks, all 3 live Q&A sessions, and the full Future of Web Apps panel. It also includes four talks from our organizing companies. Highlights to me are: Make your …

Have Single-Page Apps Ruined the Web? | Transitional Apps with Rich Harris, NYTimes

Talk by Rich Harris, as presented at the most recent JamstackConf: Transitional apps samples elements from both traditional and modern architecture. The term is borrowed from interior design’s framing of “transitional design.” Transitional apps are, like multi-page apps, server-side rendered for fast initial loads, resilient since they work without JS by default, and provide a …

How CodePen leverages Cloudflare Workers and Cloudflare KV Storage

Interesting to see Chris Coyier and Stephen Shaw lift the hood of CodePen, detailing how they use Cloudflare Workers and Cloudflare’s KV Storage. Cloudflare workers are like serverless functions that always run at the edge, making them incredibly fast. Not only that, but the tooling around them is really nice. They can run at particular …

Generative design with CSS Houdini

Recording of George Francis giving his talk “Generative design with CSS Houdini” at the most recent edition of London CSS Learn how the mystical powers of CSS Houdini can be harnessed to create ever-unique, generative user interfaces — think random patterns, shapes, animations, and more! Related: Random Paint Effects with Houdini