Engineering

Use the Saga design pattern to ensure data consistency on distributed transactions in microservices architectures.

The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first community should help build it

Atlassian's internal first-generation data lake grows by 85 terabytes a day. Since it's a data lake, it contains data from varied sources and with varied degrees of documentation, metadata, lineage, quality checks, and observability, acting as a centralized repository for storing vast amounts of raw, unprocessed data.

Far from a bubble, we're watching a new generation of tech start-ups realize the Web's original potential, says Marc Andreessen.

What do you need to to take your LLM based product from demo to production?

A methodology for building modern, scalable, maintainable software-as-a-service apps.

Watch the recording, peep the slides, steal code.

Dive into implementing the iconic Cover Flow UI pattern using modern CSS scroll-driven animations and alternative ways of implementing Cover Flow, such as vi...

Learn how to use native CSS nesting in modern browsers. Understand the & selector, specificity rules, differences from Sass, and when to use nesting with practical examples for components, themes, and accessibility.

I’ve accepted an invitation to speak at Smashing’s (Online) Conference Meets Style Sheets. It’s free on Wednesday, May 6th. I named my talk In-N-Out Styling. Long time CSS evangel…

A bunch of demos and tools to show off Scroll-driven Animations

Practical introduction to internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) - from a developer's point of view.

An interactive blog on computer science and web development, by Nanda Syahrasyad.

If you've used CSS, you know what a class name is. They're a very poor proxy for the web today. Let's stop using them.

Going “full CSS Zen Garden” with modern CSS.

CSS has been on fire lately, with tons of great new features. @starting-style is an interesting one; it allows us to use CSS transitions for enter animations, something previously reserved for CSS keyframe animations. But is the juice worth the squeeze?

Explore how to recreate Apple's stunning Liquid Glass effect using CSS, SVG Displacement Maps, and refraction calculations.

More explorations of ways to abuse the CSS `infinity` keyword, this time with more than just lengths.

An overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome.

A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

# TLDR Datastar is a new hypermedia framework that makes building real-time web applications simpler and more efficient. It prioritizes server-side logic, uses “signals” for automatic UI updates, and leverages Server-Sent Events for lightning-fast performance. If you’re looking for a streamlined alternative to traditional JavaScript frameworks or HTMX, Datastar is worth exploring. However, it requires that you approach web development with a fresh perspective, embracing server-driven architecture and reactive programming.

Turning your API inside-out.

In the previous few articles, we showed how to create web forms in HTML. Now, we'll show how to style them in CSS.

Container queries expand the universe of designs that can be implemented, giving us whole new superpowers. Now that container queries are broadly available, I think it’s time we start exploring this potential! In this post, I’ll share the “killer pattern” I can’t stop using in my work, and explore what’s possible with this new capability.

One of the responses I got to yesterday’s article about how I built my own code sandbox Web Component was a bit of awe at the simple trick I used to handle live syntax highlighting. A lot of developers struggle with building simple solutions. But my code rarely starts off simple. It usually starts off as a hot mess of “wow it’s finally working!”, and takes a few rounds of revisions to get something simple, clean, and maintainable.