I am still an AI skeptic. The biggest risk I foresee is that if your sole responsibility is to write code, your job is at risk. It’s not time to panic, but I do see a lot of value in evolving your soft skills.
The Importance of Investing…
Tight Mode: Why Browsers Produce Different Performance Results
I wrote a post for Smashing Magazine that was published today about this thing that Chrome and Safari have called “Tight Mode” and how it impacts page performance. I’d never heard the term until DebugBear’s Matt Zeunert mentioned it in …
Tight Mode: Why Browsers Produce Different…
Thank You (2024 Edition)
I’m more thankful this time around because, last year, I didn’t even get to write this post. But now that I’m back, writing this feels so, so, so good. There’s a lot more gusto going into my writing when I say: thank you so very much!…
A CSS Wishlist for 2025
2024 has been one of the greatest years for CSS: cross-document view transitions, scroll-driven animations, anchor positioning, animate to height: auto, and many others. It seems out of touch to ask, but what else do we …
A CSS Wishlist for 2025 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which…
The Little Triangle in the Tooltip
Today, I want to focus on what I’ll call the little triangle in the tooltip. It receives minimal attention but it amazes you by how many ways there are to make them. Let’s start with the simplest and make our way up to the not-so-simple.
The Little…
The BEST Spoon Graphics Tutorials from 2024
2024 is coming to an end, so let’s take a look back at my tutorial videos from the past year and see which topics proved to be the most popular. Once again my Neon Light Effect Photoshop Tutorial from back in 2021 continues to dominate my YouTube Analytics as my best performing video, now with 2.8 million total views. Sadly, none of my uploads this year have managed to pull out any extraordinary numbers, my best performing videos are just about on par with 9th and 10th place from my 2023 roundup! I thought my recent Vaporwave Neon Effect Photoshop Tutorial might have followed in the footsteps of that popular Neon Light Effect tutorial with it being the same process with a different result, but the stats aren’t quite living up to expectations yet with 3000 views so far. Hopefully this will be one to watch if the algorithm decides to shine some light on it in 2025.
► Neon Light Effect Photoshop Tutorial – https://youtu.be/3JxCbwn-6bQ
► Vaporwave Neon Effect Photoshop Tutorial – https://youtu.be/Ht21wUDPS-M
► Easily Create Fire in Photoshop With This Incredible Flames Action – https://youtu.be/oT2CyMCbQXM
► EASILY Create NEON Effects With AI in Adobe Firefly – https://youtu.be/NF3XORW2iMA
► Adobe Illustrator Tutorial: Design a Retro VHS Cover Inspired Poster – https://youtu.be/Br6XI0TwYyA
► 10 Font Styles Every Graphic Designer Should Know – https://youtu.be/GowuIcIabKs
► Add Textures in Photoshop with the Hidden “KNOCKOUT” Method – https://youtu.be/Ewyn-yoNFoc
► How to Create Watercolour Painting Effects with AI Using Photoshop’s Generative Fill – https://youtu.be/XmNFlgCGWpw
► Easy Green Slime Text Effect With Adobe Firefly – https://youtu.be/0bm3SRvSa_k
► Photoshop Pencil Sketch Effect Tutorial – https://youtu.be/DWQMNKSw2XA
► Text Portrait Effect in Photoshop – https://youtu.be/gF2qujOMtVI
► Grainy Xerox Grunge Effect Photoshop Tutorial – https://youtu.be/fnTdmhODwW8
How to Create Multi-Step Forms With Vanilla JavaScript and CSS
When was the last time you developed a multi-step form? There’s so much to think about and so many moving pieces that need to be managed. But doing it by hand can be a good exercise and a great way to polish the basics. Fatuma Abdullaho…
What ELSE is on your CSS wishlist?
What else do we want or need CSS to do? Chris kept a CSS wishlist, going back as far as 2013 and following back up on it in 2019. We all have things we’d like to see CSS do and we always will no matter how…
Fluid Superscripts and Subscripts
How much attention do you pay to the alignments of your subscripts and superscripts? Lorenz Wöehr has you covered with a recipe for fluid scaling.
Fluid Superscripts and Subscripts originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter….
Smashing Meets Product Design
I had the pleasure of hosting a recent Smashing Magazine workshop on product design, subbing for Vitaly Friedman who usually runs these things.
What? A front-ender interviewing really smart people about their processes for user research, documenting requirements, and …
Smashing Meets Product Design originally published on CSS-Tricks,…