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Shalanah Dawson
@shalanah.bsky.social
Software Engineer

Loves UI development + running on ice (broomball)
Made for fun: 🎊 https://wandawhirl.com ❄️ https://supersnowflakemaker.com
Github 💻 github.com/shalanah
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What You Need to Know about Modern CSS (2025 Edition)

If you thought 2024 was packed with amazing new CSS, well, you're right. But so is 2025 and it keeps looking bright. Check out our list of the best stuff with easy-to-reference examples.
What You Need to Know about Modern CSS (2025 Edition)
If you thought 2024 was packed with amazing new CSS, well, you're right. But so is 2025 and it keeps looking bright. Check out our list of the best stuff with easy-to-reference examples.
frontendmasters.com
September 20, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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The next version of Storybook will only have one significant breaking change:

Storybook 10 is ESM-only.
September 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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A video mimicking the oreo joke to showcase different values of background-repeat in CSS
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyhp...

#css #youtube
Background-repeat... with cookies
YouTube video by Alvaro Montoro
www.youtube.com
August 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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September 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Making some small edits to a site of mine and got stuck in a loop 🌀
August 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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For the next few weeks I am trying to get the game ready, and of course me mentally/emotionally ready for a private playtest ahead of a Demo.😰😀 sooooo... stay tuned for the call.

#gamedev #indiegame #godotengine
August 17, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Op Rhythm. #p5 #nextdraw
August 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Here's the full hero section from my upcoming Prismic course... this one took the longest out of everything. It has to be *just right*.

The loose keycaps are in a group and I just scale the group up to make them fly away. Lots of fun tricks in this one!
August 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Okay, gang, the next phase of the "askhole" AI behavior: people asking actual humans to TL;DR or rewrite everything for them.

Just had this interaction on LI with an AI-titled person and I just...

We're treating bots as humans and humans as bots. No. Nope. No.

Restart the matrix.
July 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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July 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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📢 The State of HTML Survey is live survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...

The #HTML and #CSS surveys are the only web surveys I don't want to miss. Thank you @sachagreif.com for making them, and @lea.verou.me for curating.

Please take a few minutes to fill the survey if/when you can. ✨
State of HTML 2025
Take the State of HTML survey
survey.devographics.com
July 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Best part about building Chrome extensions is just focusing on one browser and experimenting with the latest greatest.
July 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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The backdrop not covering the status bar when opening a sheet on the web makes it feel... subpar compared to native.

So in Silk I baked-in the ability to blend them together by automatically dimming the theme-color in sync with the backdrop opacity.
May 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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No API docs should have physics. Its super distracting.
May 24, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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making progress, but slow • fortress wip #b3d #mayterials
May 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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For my fellow Firefox friends, we might see some eye candy eventually. 🎉

Honestly, missing view transitions drove me pretty close to switching daily browsers... so let's see.

www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...
May 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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April 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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#tinySVGtip Been using this forever, but don't think I've ever shared it here.

Easily create stripes along any direction in SVG!
✨ draw a line along that direction
✨ make it dashed
✨ make it much thicker
✨ no, not like that... I really mean much thicker!

That's it! 🥳🎉

codepen.io/thebabydino/...
November 28, 2023 at 9:15 AM
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I’m super excited about `text-wrap: pretty`. It does a lot more to improve typography than you might expect — at least in Safari Technology Preview 216.

It improves all lines of text, not just the last 4. It enhances hyphenation & rag, not just avoiding short last lines.

webkit.org/blog/16547/b...
Better typography with text-wrap pretty
Support for text-wrap: pretty just shipped in Safari Technology Preview, bringing an unprecedented level of polish to typography on the web.
webkit.org
April 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Transformations
Ink on paper
#p5 #nextdraw #kaleidoscope
March 28, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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look at him go
March 29, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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in Chrome 135 - Tomorrow Mar 26, 2025
customize all the parts of a with #CSS!

nerdy.dev/customize-a-...
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March 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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amazing what a few lines of #css can do

https://codepen.io/argyleink/pen/LEYOgxy
March 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM