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When Apple first unveiled the Liquid Glass design language last year, I went on record as being hugely excited about this shift away from 2010s-era “flat design”.

This post is part of Intuitive+Learn, an exclusive series on That HTML Blog available with your Intuitive+ membership.

When I started work on the Willamette theme for Bridgetown (a Ruby-based web framework), I knew I wanted to provide the user developing their new Bridgetown site the ability to choose a single “brand” color and then get an entire scale generated based on…

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is the image format for the web that isn’t raster (aka pixel-based) like JPEG and PNG.

For two years now we’ve been covering the circuitous path wending its way towards getting a Pinterest-style layout mode into CSS (often called “masonry” layout).

Before I describe the two different paradigms for enhancing HTML tags, let’s first explain what it means to enhance an HTML tag.

In a past life, I wrote an article called HTML is a Serialized Object Graph and That Changes Everything which made the case why understanding the declarative nature of HTML as an object graph which sits alongside JavaScript’s imperative DOM API is so cruc…

As someone who has worked extensively on codebases using TypeScript, as well as codebases using JavaScript, I am here to inform you: I greatly prefer JavaScript.

Hot take: the killer feature of htmx which transforms it from a nice lil’ opinionated DSL for HTML-based reactivity to a powerhouse full-stack framework with which you can build ambitious, even experimental application architectures is this: Extensions.