# css — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 617 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover css. Page: Feed: --- ## [Web-Perf Wednesday 005 – RUM Needs More Than a Percentile](https://csswizardry.com/2026/08/web-perf-wednesday-005-rum-needs-more-than-a-percentile/) _2026-08-19 · CSS Wizardry_ LUX Sidecar adds context to RUM, while browser-tool fixes show why measurement conditions and small debugging details matter. ## [18 new words to describe our tech hellscape](https://blog.x-way.org/Misc/2026/08/18/18-new-words-to-describe-our-tech-hellscape.html?utm_medium=rss) _2026-08-18 · Andreas Jaggi · x-log_ Had to chuckle quite a bit while reading this article: Dickovers, baggravation and botiquette: 18 new words to describe our tech hellscape 😂 Besides the initial Dickover , there are: AI-horning Captchore Quit-shaming Cart cling Chatflattery Botiquette Chattermining Loginsanity Limpetlisting Parkware Gatejamming Baggravation Parcel liveblogging Socket boomerism Schrödinger’s wifi Formnesia… ## [WWW Ep251 Guppy Pimpin In Trip Pants While Debugging Ie5](https://nerdy.dev/www-ep251-guppy-pimpin-in-trip-pants-while-debugging-ie5?utm_source=rss) _2026-08-18 · adam@whiskey.fm · Adam Argyle_ Ep #251 Guppy Pimpin In Trip Pants While Debugging IE5 Robbie and I do a mostly whatnot episode about our path getting into tech, playing in bands, and getting into trouble. We sip Glen Morangie "A Tale of Ice Cream" and share some stories. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spo… ## [Introducing LUX Sidecar: Your SpeedCurve Companion](https://csswizardry.com/2026/08/introducing-lux-sidecar/) _2026-08-18 · CSS Wizardry_ LUX Sidecar is a small SpeedCurve RUM plugin that adds browser and navigation context to your real-user performance data. ## [Modernist Tiles with CSS Grid](https://www.carmenansio.com/articles/modernist-tiles-css-grid/) _2026-08-18 · Carmen Ansio_ A Modernist hydraulic tile floor, one motif rotated across the whole room, is something you'll find everywhere in Barcelona. Let's build our own in CSS Grid. Six real motifs, a whole floor of palettes. ## [CSS grid-lanes](https://iprodan.dev/l/grid-lanes/) _2026-08-18 · Ion Prodan, 16+ yrs of frontend dev, mostly in Angular._ Mixed-height cards go into the shortest column. Use columns: as the fallback. ## [The Recipe Isn't The Bake - What Design Systems Need Beyond Documentation](https://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/the-recipe-isnt-the-bake.html) _2026-08-18 · Always Twisted| Articles_ Each week on The Great British Bake Off, the Technical Challenge gives bakers a neat sheet of instructions and a pile of ingredients, then asks them to recreate a bake they may have never seen before, tried, or heard about. On paper, everyone has the same recipe. In practice, the results vary from showstopping to showstoppingly tragic. That gap, between the recipe card and the actual bake, mirrors… ## [How we brought our Rust CI from 20 minutes to less than 5 for Comper](https://blog.waleson.com/2026/08/how-we-brought-our-rust-ci-from-20.html) _2026-08-17 · Jouke Waleson · Software etc._ How we brought our Rust CI from 20 minutes to less than 5 for Comper AI Disclaimer This post was written by GPT-Sol 5.6 mimicking my writing style. After multiple 12h+ days of optimizing CI I could not muster the energy to write a full on blog post, but I did want to share our optimizations with the world. The contents are correct and it's based on our commit history and our codebase. Ultimately… ## [When Safari’s ‘Ignore Cache’ Ignored Cache-Control](https://csswizardry.com/2026/08/when-safaris-ignore-cache-ignored-cache-control/) _2026-08-17 · CSS Wizardry_ Safari Technology Preview 250 fixed a subtle Web Inspector bug that overwrote page-authored Cache-Control request headers when the resource cache was disabled. ## [So Long Relayd, and Thanks for All the Fish](https://btxx.org/posts/so-long-relayd/) _2026-08-17 · btxx.org RSS Feed_ So Long Relayd, and Thanks for All the Fish 2026-08-17 Running relayd alongside httpd on your OpenBSD web servers is no longer necessary for injecting HTTP security headers. Thanks to the incredible work by rsadowski@ we now have the ability to set our security headers directly inside httpd . Pretty awesome, right? Note: I still love relayd and I'm aware that it offers more than simply applying… ## [Transcript-Driven Stock Discovery (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/tKC6HuzPxCvq) _2026-08-17 · **Sponsored**_ Ranked, evidence-backed watchlists from indexed executive transcripts for 1–2 quarter horizons ## [Dark mode toggles: two states are enough](https://css-tricks.com/dark-mode-toggles-two-states-are-enough/) _2026-08-17 · Geoff Graham · CSS-Tricks_ Lea's pushing back on light/dark mode implementations that display three state options for visitors: light, dark, and system. Dark mode toggles: two states are enough originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well. ## [Most common CSS typos](https://jeffbridgforth.com/most-common-css-typos/) _2026-08-17 · Jeff Bridgforth · Jeff Bridgforth_ Last week, Kevin Powell posted on Bluesky about the most common typo you make when writing CSS. I share my top two typos. The post Most common CSS typos appeared first on Jeff Bridgforth . ## [The AI Layoff Trap](https://cocoweb.fr/blog/en/2026-08-17_tips-the-ai-layoff-trap/) _2026-08-17 · Cocoweb_ Tips and discovery of the week. - AI layoff trap, software engineering as a career, Show-me for coding agents, local Mistral Vibe CLI, DeepSeek Harness, llmfit, ARES e-bike, and design picks. ## [My HTML boilerplate in 2026](https://matuzo.at/blog/2026/html-boilerplate) _2026-08-17 · Manuel Matuzović - Blog_ Every element I use for the basic structure of a HTML document, with explanations why. Five years ago, I shared the HTML boilerplate I use for most of my projects. Since then, a lot has happened in HTML. It's time to give it an update. My boilerplate This is the final document. Scroll down for details. \ \ \ \ \_ I’m constantly tinkering with ways to make publishing Hugo blogs even smoother, and today I swapped the long, tedious npm console commands for quick shortcuts in VS Code’s command palette. While I still have to hit a few keys, the new shortcuts are shorter, easier to recall, and I can just arrow‑select them—no more memorizing long command chains. This small tweak keeps my workflow… ## [Contextualism At CSSday 2026](https://nerdy.dev/contextualism-at-cssday-2026?utm_source=rss) _2026-08-12 · atom@argyleink · Adam Argyle_ Watch my talk "Contextualism" from CSS Day on Conffab ## [Building safe MCP servers for your PostgreSQL database](https://blog.pamelafox.org/2026/08/building-safe-mcp-servers-for-your.html) _2026-08-12 · Pamela Fox · pamela fox's blog_ Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open protocol that describes how agents can connect to external tools and data sources, and is now widely supported by the most popular coding agents (like GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and Codex) and agent frameworks (like LangChain and Pydantic AI). If you want to give agents a standard way to access the data in a database, you can build your own MCP server and… ## [(untitled)](https://alexcarpenter.me/notes/2026-08-12-3/) _2026-08-12 · Notes - Alex Carpenter_ make your inline icons resilient to wrapping. avoid flex + items-center . vertically align SVG with height="1lh" and size with width . https://codepen.io/editor/alexcarpenter/pen/019ff69c-0252-7405-84c4-a61eff18d6ec ## [Geohash Support in Vernissage](https://kiko.io/notes/2026/Geohash-Support-in-Vernissage/) _2026-08-12 · kiko.io Posts_ Three days ago, I wrote the post Geohashes for my photos about my recent use of Geohashes as a short alternative to long GPS coordinates and expressed my hope that my favorite platform, Vernissage, would support them… and I created a GitHub issue for Marcin , the developer. Three days ago… Marcin released a new version today that now supports Geohashes! \\o/ My sincere thanks and deepest… ## [(untitled)](https://alexcarpenter.me/notes/2026-08-12-2/) _2026-08-12 · Notes - Alex Carpenter_ favorite resources on composition: Composition Is All You Need React Composition Patterns Just use children The “everything bagel” of components Quit Your YAP-ing ## [Blocked aria-hidden: The Warning is Right, and Every Fix You’ve Found is Wrong](https://css-tricks.com/blocked-aria-hidden-fix/) _2026-08-12 · Durgesh Rajubhai Pawar · CSS-Tricks_ The warning is correct. And the recommended fixes you've probably seen are wrong. Here's what you can do instead to properly fix the issue. Blocked aria-hidden: The Warning is Right, and Every Fix You ve Found is Wrong originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well. ## [(untitled)](https://alexcarpenter.me/notes/2026-08-12-1/) _2026-08-12 · Notes - Alex Carpenter_ Agentic tool stack recently: herdr worktrunk plannotator.ai /plannotator-review has been such a big improvement to reviewing lots of agent written code recently. ## [Web-Perf Wednesday 004 – A Quiet Week Is Time to Investigate](https://csswizardry.com/2026/08/web-perf-wednesday-004-a-quiet-week-is-time-to-investigate/) _2026-08-12 · CSS Wizardry_ A quiet week in web performance is a useful chance to investigate the evidence and problems teams already have. ## [Contextual Styling With CSS Nesting](https://www.abeautifulsite.net/posts/contextual-styling-with-css-nesting/) _2026-08-12 · A Beautiful Site_ I've been hooked on CSS nesting for awhile. Like Sass, I've always written it with the & selector at the front, like this. .button { background: slategrey; &:hover { background: darkslategrey; } } Turns out, the & doesn't have to come first. Put it after another selector and the relationship flips. Instead of styling what's inside the element, you're styling the element based on what surrounds it.… ## [Jujutsu: ADHD Punisher](https://raccoon.land/posts/jujutsu-adhd-punisher/) _2026-08-12 · aviraccoon's nocturnal scribbles_ jujutsu version control system is kicking dopamine out of me, and that feels wrong. ## [Serving Markdown to AI Agents with CloudFront Functions and SST](https://wempe.dev/blog/serving-markdown-to-ai-agents-with-cloudfront/) _2026-08-12 · Jannik Wempe · Jannik Wempe_ Every post on this blog is also served as plain markdown – same URL, one Accept header away. Here is the full implementation: prerendered Astro endpoints, a CloudFront function that rewrites requests at the edge, and the caching details in between. ## [What is Good? 2026-08-11](https://tomclancy.info/wig-2600811.html) _2026-08-11 · Tom Clancy · Tom Clancy_ ❧ "What is good, Phaedrus, and what is not good?" ❦ Good in the last month Step bits: how did I not know about these? Bought a small set to put holes in a metal planter and they worked perfectly, then the smaller ones came in handy when I needed to make … ## [(untitled)](https://alexcarpenter.me/notes/2026-08-11-1/) _2026-08-11 · Notes - Alex Carpenter_ active transform scale, I want to love you… I do, as its such a nice piece of feedback for pressed state. but we really need the ability to scale by px value. button:active { transform: scale(calc(100% - 6px)); } ## [XO Ruby joins RubyConf/RailsWorld as Another Exclusive Discriminatory Unexcellent Conference](https://andymaleh.blogspot.com/2026/08/xo-ruby-joins-rubyconfrailsworld-as.html) _2026-08-11 · Andy Maleh · Code Master Blog_ So, I got contacted by the organizer of the XO Ruby conference (aka Travelling Ruby), Pascal Laliberté, on meetup.com because I organize the Montreal.rb Ruby Meetup and am a Montreal-based Expert Ruby Software Engineer. He said XO Ruby is coming to Montreal and asked me for help with it. We end up meeting in a video conference call. To help out, I indicated that I asked my company to consider… ## [Location, Location, Location...](https://rsmck.co.uk/blog/location-location-location-cuecam/) _2026-08-11 · rsmck · rsmck_ Or how to provide the illusion of having mapped every entertainment venue in the world. As part of my recent work on CueCam, I was asked to incorporate location metadata in the recorded images and videos. An expectation of any camera app these days, and mimicing the native iPhone Camera ## [A Design Tokens Workflow (Part 18) - How to Generate Component CSS and Sass Files from Design Tokens using Style Dictionary](https://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/a-design-tokens-workflow-part-18.html) _2026-08-11 · Always Twisted| Articles_ If your design system is more than a handful of components, a single token file will become unwieldy. You're going to end up with colour, spacing, and typography for buttons, cards, modals, and everything else all in one place, which will turn into an absolute scrolling car crash that teams have to wade through to find what they actually need. Splitting tokens by component solves this practically.… ## [Bee Parties and Greenery](https://www.thefrugalgamer.net/blog/2026/08/10/bee-parties-and-greenery/) _2026-08-10 · Bekah · The Frugal Blog_ I’m not very good at growing vegetables, I have found (though I keep trying), but things are happening in my garden, nonetheless! This year, I’ve noticed a few newcomers to my usual flower patches, and one visitor in particular has brought some friends. If you like looking at insects (mostly winged ones), and want to … Continue reading "Bee Parties and Greenery"