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Between all the fancy features such as container style queries, contrast-color(), gap decorations, corners-shape... there are some features that became baseline available and we forgot about them. They are those little things that make life a bit easier. I wanted to search for the kinds of features that I don’t need on a regular basis, but am happy to know are available. This article is all about the CSS Custom Highlight API, text-indents and math.

Fourteen talks, two days, one city. Color spaces, a browser built from scratch, CSS that runs x86 machine code, a select that took 33 years, and a masonry layout that is finally real. This was CSS Day 2026.

Maybe it's the amount of people from the UK that attended CSS Day this year, maybe I just wanted to use the word bollocks in an article, either way, It's my blog and I write what I want. I write on this thing called the web, which is for everyone and the web can be a really pretty place. Yep, in a world of AI making your half-baked design system we've all seen before, there is certainly a way we can do better. CSS Day showed me that the person orchestrating a Web UI will still triumph the "dude in garage with prompt machine" every time.

It’s not secret that I love a bit of beautiful UI. The web is full of creativity, experiences that we start to miss out from when using AI to look up everything. Finding information for a Metal festival and reading it in a sans-serif black/white screen is not engaging, you lose every bit of feeling, the urge to go jump in the mosh pit. I felt I had to at least try to take a look at ChatGPT apps. Is this the way forward? Some thoughts...

For a long time, if you wanted to style the space between items in a grid or flex layout, you had to fake it. Borders on child elements, extra pseudo-elements, background tricks, extra markup, etc. It worked... until it didn't. Responsive changes could break illusions, it always felt hacky, and in a few cases we'd end up polluting the DOM structure for something purely visual (Which I hate doing). An update that is long overdue, CSS is filling those gaps in our grid systems.

Sometimes you have this one of thing you are proud of, but you don't share it with the world. One of those thing is my color scheme that I use for my blog. I also started to use it in my IDE, and now you can too!

About half a year ago I wrote about the idea to have multi-handle range sliders as a native HTML element. I asked for feedback, and the community delivered. The proposal has moved forward since then, but it needs more voices to get browser vendors on board. Here's what happened, what changed, and what you can do. This article shows some of the survey results, and is a big call for help.

After sharing the redesign, a few people asked about the architecture underneath. How is the CSS organized? What's the token system? How does dark mode actually work? I had a few people asking to go more in depth, so I thought I'd show it a bit more about this CSS architecture. Cascade layers, a three-tier design token system, the light-dark() migration, a modern reset, container queries, logical properties everywhere, and the progressive enhancement philosophy tying it all together.

For years, developers have been hacking around the limitations of border-radius, using clip-path, SVG masks, and fragile workarounds just to get anything other than round corners. The new corner-shape property finally changes that, opening the door to beveled, scooped, and squircle corners.