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These are our recommendations for those of you early in your web developer journey. This is about tech and the real world stuff around it that you’ll need.

The most basic use case, writing a bit of text to the user’s clipboard, is mercifully easy. But there is plenty more to know. Did you know writing image data to the clipboard ONLY works with PNG?

We’ll make some extremely stylized range sliders with simple semantic HTML and some very fresh CSS. You might be surprised how custom these things can get these days.

CSS containment is used for optimization and opening styling possibilities by isolating elements from the rest of the page. Different contain values (size, paint, layout, etc.) provide various benefits and tradeoffs.

On iOS, there is a setting for Text Size. I’ll do a video here for the current version of iOS (17.5.1) to be clear: As far as I ever knew, that controlled the text size on the OS itself and native apps. It didn’t effect websites. I think that’s largely true, but I just learned […]

Svelte is already quite lightweight and fast, but Svelte 5 still overs big improvements in fine-grained reactivity, meaning re-rendering as absolutely little as possible.

Support for the relative color syntax in CSS is across the board now (go interop!), so here we look at some basic (and still very useful) use cases, like applying alpha to a color you have on hand.

Native support for decorators is inevitable! It simplifies augmenting class methods, which can help with things like logging, memoization, debouncing, and dependency injection.

Out with slots, in with snippets.

Figma has support for variables, and they work with the various typography features you may want to set. For instance, you could create a variable called “Header Font” with a value of “Ideal Sans” and use it in many places.