February 20, 2025 A nice tool for generating mesh gradients from Erik D. Kennedy. You might call it a bit of a trend, but as Erik pointed out in a recent newsletter, they can be quite versatile because it’s just a nice background look that doesn’t demand anything in particular from the brand. Mesh gradients can work across a huge variety of brands. Dark? Yes. Light? Yes. Grainy? Sure. Pensive? Absolutely. Delicate? Yup. Weatherworn and rugged? Totally.
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Editor’s note: This article is outside the typical range of topics we normally cover around here and touches on sensitive topics including recollections from an abusive marriage. It doesn’t delve into much detail about the abuse and ends on a positive note. Thanks to Lee for sharing his take on the intersection between life and web development and for allowing us to gain professional insights from his personal life. When my dad was alive, he used to say that work and home life should exist in separate “watertight compartments.” I shouldn’t bring work home or my home life to work. There’s the quote misattributed to Mark…
CSS selectors never cease to amaze me in how powerful they can be in matching complex patterns. Most of that flexibility is in parent/child/sibling relationships, very seldomly in value matching. Consider my surprise when I learned that CSS allows matching attribute values regardless off case! Adding a {space}i to the attribute selector brackets will make the attribute value search case insensitive: /* case sensitive, only matches “example” */ [class=example] { background: pink; } /* case insensitive, matches “example”, “eXampLe”, etc. */ [class=example i] { background: lightblue; } The use cases for this i flag are likely very limited, especially if…
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