# horizontal (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 5 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover horizontal. Page: Feed: --- ## [Vol. 166: 8H2J](https://malcrushmonday.substack.com/p/vol-166-8h2j) _2026-08-18 · Mal · #MalCrushMonday_ A regular edition and a special edition all in one. ## [Vol. 165: TOMATOES](https://malcrushmonday.substack.com/p/vol-165-tomatoes) _2026-08-11 · Mal · #MalCrushMonday_ And other stuff I wrote about. ## [Vol. 164: Shrek](https://malcrushmonday.substack.com/p/vol-164-shrek) _2026-08-04 · Mal · #MalCrushMonday_ The theme of camp this week....is Shrek. ## [Vol. 163: One term of #MCM](https://malcrushmonday.substack.com/p/vol-163-one-term-of-mcm) _2026-07-28 · Mal · #MalCrushMonday_ Four years. ## [#PalCrushMonday: Elizabeth Morales](https://malcrushmonday.substack.com/p/palcrushmonday-elizabeth-morales) _2026-07-20 · Mal · #MalCrushMonday_ Mal & E, the sisters of the ??? ## [Vol. 162: My broccoli is done](https://malcrushmonday.substack.com/p/vol-162-my-broccoli-is-done) _2026-07-13 · Mal · #MalCrushMonday_ I made it in the microwave. ## [Vol. 161: I read an essay](https://malcrushmonday.substack.com/p/vol-161-i-read-an-essay) _2026-07-06 · Mal · #MalCrushMonday_ The whole thing! ## [Vol. 160: Strawberry Moon](https://malcrushmonday.substack.com/p/vol-160-strawberry-moon) _2026-06-30 · Mal · #MalCrushMonday_ I cried in yoga class tonight. ## [Vol. 159: A night off](https://malcrushmonday.substack.com/p/vol-159-a-night-off) _2026-06-22 · Mal · #MalCrushMonday_ PHEW! ## [Vol. 158: The text I didn't send](https://malcrushmonday.substack.com/p/vol-158-the-text-i-didnt-send) _2026-06-15 · Mal · #MalCrushMonday_ Which is a good thing. ## [AI Summaries & Audio Briefings (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/s9tJYlt7K8HN) _2026-06-15 · **Sponsored**_ Read AI summaries and listen to concise audio briefings for the latest stories. ## [A UI/UX Review of an Armenian Medical Aggregator](https://vpon.me/articles/a-ux-review-of-an-armenian-medical-aggregator) _2026-06-13 · Victor Ponamariov_ A practical UX review of an Armenian medical aggregator, focused on search, information architecture, hidden inputs, and layout shifts. ## [Here are 3 quick UX gems for you](https://vpon.me/articles/here-are-3-quick-ux-gems-for-you) _2026-03-11 · Victor Ponamariov_ Three practical UI/UX wins: smart email typo handling, choosing switches vs segmented controls, and preventing flex-shrink layout bugs. ## [The false bottom effect](https://vpon.me/articles/the-false-bottom-effect) _2026-03-04 · Victor Ponamariov_ A subtle dropdown usability issue: when visible items perfectly fill container height, users may miss that the list is scrollable. ## [The worst layout for product page](https://vpon.me/articles/the-worst-layout-for-product-page) _2026-02-25 · Victor Ponamariov_ Why horizontal tabs are often a bad fit for product pages, and why vertically collapsed sections are easier to discover. ## [What is OKLCH and why you should use it](https://vpon.me/articles/what-is-oklch-and-why-you-should-use-it) _2026-02-24 · Victor Ponamariov_ A practical explanation of OKLCH: where it comes from, how it relates to CIE 1931, RGB, sRGB, P3, and why it helps with accessible color work. ## [The other 5 heuristics make you a usability expert](https://vpon.me/articles/the-other-5-heuristics-make-you-a-usability-expert) _2026-02-24 · Victor Ponamariov_ A practical walkthrough of five Nielsen usability heuristics with examples: recognition over recall, flexibility, minimal design, error recovery, and documentation. ## [Reviewing a sign up form](https://vpon.me/articles/reviewing-a-sign-up-form) _2026-02-24 · Victor Ponamariov_ A practical walkthrough of common usability problems in a legacy sign-up form: hierarchy, copy, validation, accessibility, and tiny UI details. ## [A well-known folder](https://vpon.me/articles/a-well-known-folder) _2026-02-23 · Victor Ponamariov_ What the .well-known URI is, why it matters for UX, and how the change-password and security.txt endpoints help users and security researchers. ## [A CSS feature you should know](https://vpon.me/articles/a-css-feature-you-should-know) _2026-02-23 · Victor Ponamariov_ A quick explanation of CSS env() and safe-area-inset variables, with practical examples for plain CSS and Tailwind. ## [CSS Combo for a11y, performance and browser support](https://vpon.me/articles/css-combo-for-a11y-performance-and-browser-support) _2026-02-23 · Victor Ponamariov_ Practical CSS combination for balancing accessibility preferences, browser support, and performance when using backdrop-filter. ## [Save with community-voted codes (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/2tb8TdcJlVew) _2026-02-23 · **Sponsored**_ Search thousands of community-verified coupon codes — 100% free, no account needed. ## [Genius trick](https://vpon.me/articles/genius-trick) _2026-02-18 · Victor Ponamariov_ A smart right-click interaction pattern for brand logos: instead of blocking users, provide useful brand actions and assets. ## [UI/UX Review of a bank app](https://vpon.me/articles/ui-ux-review-of-a-bank-app) _2026-02-11 · Victor Ponamariov_ A quick UI/UX teardown of a banking screen: grouping issues, unclear labels, spacing inconsistency, and overloaded card-focused layout. ## [The Secret Focus in CSS](https://vpon.me/articles/the-secret-focus-in-css) _2026-02-04 · Victor Ponamariov_ Why :focus-visible is often better than :focus for interaction polish and accessibility, with visual comparisons. ## [Nice trick for alerts](https://vpon.me/articles/nice-trick-for-alerts) _2026-01-28 · Victor Ponamariov_ A neat alert text selection trick using ::selection, with caution to validate contrast for accessibility. ## [Good UI. Bad UX.](https://vpon.me/articles/good-ui-bad-ux) _2026-01-21 · Victor Ponamariov_ Two real payment UX cases: one blocks retrying an existing method, another hides adding a new method. Good visuals, poor interaction flow. ## [Great CSS/UI Tip](https://vpon.me/articles/great-css-ui-tip) _2026-01-14 · Victor Ponamariov_ A small CSS/UI enhancement that makes text highlights cleaner and more intentional, with before/after comparison. ## [Useful CSS one-liner trick](https://vpon.me/articles/useful-css-one-liner-trick) _2026-01-07 · Victor Ponamariov_ A simple CSS trick with grayscale(): use it on images, logos, or even on the whole page to inspect visual hierarchy without color. ## [Transition to the Other Side with Container Query Units](https://ryanmulligan.dev/blog/transition-to-the-other-side/) _2025-10-11 · Ryan Mulligan_ Managing the position of an element as it travels across the length of its parent container can be tricky. Assuming they both have dynamic, responsive dimensions, we might rely on JS to check the width and/or height of each element and do some calculations for a proper end result. The classic FLIP technique has proven to be a solid solution in the past. For a modern approach, the View Transition… ## [Blog Questions Challenge](https://ryanmulligan.dev/blog/blog-questions-challenge-2025/) _2025-03-25 · Ryan Mulligan_ Hey there. It has been a minute since my last post. I was semi-recently tagged by Zach Leatherman to (optionally) participate in this year's Blog Questions Challenge . I had planned on doing it then. But life really hit hard as we entered this year and it has not let up. Energy dedicated to my personal webspace has been non-existent. I am tired. Hopefully this post can help shake off some of the… ## [Visibility of System Status](https://vpon.me/articles/visibility-of-system-status) _2025-02-01 · Victor Ponamariov_ A practical look at the visibility of system status heuristic: how to keep users informed with clear feedback, loaders, progress, and status indicators. ## [profullstack on Ko‑fi (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/QVqA355WCyci) _2025-02-01 · **Sponsored**_ Open the creator's Ko‑fi page. ## [Some Things About Keyframes](https://ryanmulligan.dev/blog/some-things-about-keyframes/) _2024-12-30 · Ryan Mulligan_ Whether you've barely scratched the surface of keyframe animations in CSS or fancy yourself a seasoned pro, I suggest reading An Interactive Guide to Keyframe Animations . Josh (as always) does an impeccable deep dive that includes interactive demos for multi-step animations, loops, setting dynamic values, and more. This is a quick post pointing out some other minor particulars: Duplicate keyframe… ## [Scrolling Rails and Button Controls](https://ryanmulligan.dev/blog/scrolly-rail/) _2024-12-23 · Ryan Mulligan_ Once again, here I am, hackin' away on horizontal scroll ideas. This iteration starts with a custom HTML tag. All the necessities for scroll overflow, scroll snapping, and row layout are handled with CSS. Then, as a little progressive enhancement treat, button elements are connected that scroll the previous or next set of items into view when clicked. Behold! The holy grail of scrolling rails...… ## [The Shape of Runs to Come](https://ryanmulligan.dev/blog/the-shape-of-runs-to-come/) _2024-12-08 · Ryan Mulligan_ Over the last few months or so, I have been fairly consistent with getting outside for Sunday morning runs. A series of lower body issues had prevented me from doing so for many years, but it was an exercise I had enjoyed back then. It took time to rebuild that habit and muscle but I finally bested the behavior of doing so begrudgingly. Back in the day (what a weird phrase to say, how old am I?) I… ## [The Pixel Canvas Shimmer Effect](https://ryanmulligan.dev/blog/pixel-canvas/) _2024-12-03 · Ryan Mulligan_ I recently stumbled on a super cool, well-executed hover effect from the clerk.com website where a bloom of tiny pixels light up, their glow staggering from the center to the edges of its container. With some available free time over this Thanksgiving break, I hacked together my own version of a pixel canvas background shimmer. It quickly evolved into a pixel-canvas Web Component that can be… ## [Why BlueSky is better than Twitter](https://vpon.me/articles/blue-sky-vs-twitter) _2024-11-06 · Victor Ponamariov_ Bluesky has recently broke through 30M users and doesn't want to stop. In this article I'll compare Bluesky and X in terms of UI/UX.g ## [Web Components for Password Input Enhancements](https://ryanmulligan.dev/blog/password-input-components/) _2024-09-20 · Ryan Mulligan_ So there I was, experimenting with HTML password inputs and Web Components. I'm not sure why the idea even came up but it quickly snowballed into a curious expedition. The result from the journey was a set of custom elements that provide extra functionality and information about the text being typed into a password input field. I shared my CodePen demo in a Mastodon post and soon after decided to… ## [CSS @property and the New Style](https://ryanmulligan.dev/blog/css-property-new-style/) _2024-09-02 · Ryan Mulligan_ The @property at-rule recently gained support across all modern browsers, unlocking the ability to explicitly define a syntax, initial value, and inheritance for CSS custom properties. It seems like forever ago that CSS Houdini and its CSS Properties and Values API were initially introduced. I experimented sparingly over time, reading articles that danced around the concepts, but I had barely…