Ever wanted to get the number of auto-fit/auto-fill columns in a grid? For example, because you want to highlight just the items in the first or last row or column? Do something special just for even or for odd rows or columns (e.g. zebra striping)? Or for…

Internationalization isn’t just translation. It’s about formatting dates, pluralizing words, sorting names, and more, all according to specific locales. Instead of relying on heavy third-party libraries, modern JavaScript offers the Intl API — a powerful…

A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.

The Custom Highlight API came to my attention recently as Firefox recently started supporting it (Firefox 140, June 2025), which brought support across all the major browsers. With it, you can apply (some) styling to text that you get your hands on in JavaScript…

I've come to realize that perhaps we need to have a unit between root and relative values. This would bring about a whole new possibility when creating reusable components.

CSS custom functions are a gamechanger. Here are 5 really useful examples.

Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and noscripts.

It’s an established Good Idea™ that building digital interfaces of any kind is best done by building components and then piecing together the interfaces from those components. This can be sliced and diced a lot of ways, but generally: a component is a reasonable…

(… and how that lead me to a very underused CSS feature, resolution media queries.)

A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.

Learn how Promise.any() helps you handle multiple promises by resolving with the first success, perfect for fallback APIs and progressive features in JavaScript.

I’ve moved off of Arc browser, but it had a browser-level feature of being able to toggle beween light and dark mode that I liked. I still have some muscle memory for that, so in the time I’m spending back on other Chrome-based browsers, I was looking for…

WebKit/Safari has rolled out a preview version of random() in CSS.

A deep dive into `clip-path` from Amit Sheen, a very powerful tool in shape creation on the web, particularly now with `shape()`.

August 2025 brings new updates in the Vite ecosystem, including type-aware linting in Oxlint, native plugins for rolldown-vite, better tree-shaking and more.

In the previous chapter, we explored clip-path and its power to reshape elements, cutting through the rectangular constraints of traditional elements to create circles, polygons, and complex curved shapes. We learned how to think beyond the box (literally)…

This Part 1 (of a 2-part series) is a practical, hands-on, applicable approach to database indexes. We’ll cover what B Trees are with a focus on deeply understanding, and internalizing how they store data on disk, and how your database uses them to speed…

A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.