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CSS Intermediate

Container Queries: Components That Fit Their Container, Not the Screen

A card in a sidebar and the same card full-width need different layouts - media queries cannot tell them apart. Container queries finally let components respond to their own space.

Jul 28, 2025 2 min 1,756 Read →

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JavaScript Intermediate

0.1 + 0.2 Made Your Invoice Wrong: Money Math in JavaScript

Floating point cannot represent most decimal fractions, and prices are decimal fractions. Work in integer cents, round deliberately, and let Intl handle the display.

Jul 24, 2025 2 min 1,099 Read →

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JavaScript Beginner

Generate and Download Files in the Browser: Blob + download

CSV exports, JSON backups, generated reports - the browser can create files and hand them to the user without the server ever touching the data.

Jul 14, 2025 2 min 1,442 Read →

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JavaScript Advanced

View Transitions: The Crossfade Between States Is Now One Call

document.startViewTransition snapshots your page, lets you mutate the DOM, and animates between the two states - list reorders and theme switches suddenly look expensive.

Jul 4, 2025 2 min 1,909 Read →

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JavaScript Intermediate

element.animate(): Animations Without a Stylesheet Round-Trip

The Web Animations API runs keyframe animations from JavaScript with play, pause, reverse and a finished promise - no class juggling, no injected style tags.

Jun 27, 2025 2 min 1,552 Read →

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JavaScript Advanced

Why "👨‍👩‍👧".length Is 8, and How to Count What Users See

String length counts UTF-16 code units, not characters - so emoji truncation splits families into corpses. Intl.Segmenter counts graphemes, words and sentences correctly.

Jun 23, 2025 2 min 1,192 Read →

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JavaScript Beginner

"1 item" vs "2 items": Stop Writing That Ternary

Intl.PluralRules knows every language's plural categories and Intl.ListFormat writes "a, b, and c" correctly - two tiny APIs that end string-building guesswork.

Jun 14, 2025 2 min 2,397 Read →

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JavaScript Beginner

Sorting "file10.txt" After "file2.txt": Natural Sort in One Line

Plain sort puts item10 before item2 because strings compare character by character. Intl.Collator fixes it, handles accents and case, and is faster than localeCompare in loops.

Jun 7, 2025 2 min 2,390 Read →

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JavaScript Intermediate

JSON.stringify Takes Two More Arguments Than You Think

The replacer filters and redacts on the way out, the reviver rebuilds Dates on the way in, and toJSON lets objects decide their own serialization. All native, all ignored.

Jun 3, 2025 2 min 1,636 Read →

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DOM Intermediate

inert: Disable an Entire Section of the Page in One Attribute

While a modal is open, the page behind it should not be clickable, tabbable or readable by screen readers. inert does all three - focus traps become one line.

May 24, 2025 2 min 1,655 Read →

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CSS Intermediate

The popover Attribute: Dropdowns Without the JavaScript

Toggle behavior, light dismiss, Escape handling, top-layer rendering - the popover attribute gives you all of it declaratively. Menus and tooltips just got dramatically simpler.

May 15, 2025 2 min 1,729 Read →

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JavaScript Intermediate

The Form Validation API You Already Shipped

required, pattern and type attributes feed a full JavaScript API: custom error messages, on-your-terms timing, and async checks - without a validation library.

May 9, 2025 2 min 1,715 Read →