Tabular numbers in CSS
font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums gives digits equal widths so rows of changing numbers feel steady without switching to monospace.
Ion Prodan, 16+ yrs of frontend dev, mostly in Angular.
Frontend engineer with 16+ years: Angular, TypeScript, Astro, and shipping maintainable UIs on the open web—tutorials, labs, and practical notes from the field.
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Deprecated HTML tags from the early web, from marquee to framesets
A small nostalgic walk through deprecated HTML tags from the early web, from marquee to framesets.
CSS width: stretch
What stretch does, how it differs from 100%, and which fallbacks to use in production.
Why AWS SES Denied Prod Access (And the 5 Reddit Alternatives)
AWS denied our SES production access for Zipitly.com. Here are the top Reddit alternatives ranked by real mentions + honest founders feedback. No sales pitch.
CSS safe alignment (flex & grid)
What the safe keyword does in box alignment—and when to use it.
Flexbox & Grid: align-content, align-items, justify-content, justify-items
A super simple guide to the four alignment properties in flexbox and grid.
CSS @layer
Cascade layers and why they replace !important for controlling style precedence.
I asked Gemini for a prototype… and Snipsco happened!
How asking an AI for a quick prototype led me to build Snipsco - a deeply personal, no-limits code canvas driven by passion (and lots of arrows). Here's how I went from sharing code on X, to building my own free tool for beautiful snippets, and what's next.
CSS interpolate-size
How interpolate-size: allow-keywords unlocks smooth transitions to intrinsic sizes like height: auto — and which browsers support it today.