Nik Delmar
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Nik Delmar
@nikdelmar.bsky.social
Frontend developer
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Just dipping my toes into view transitions one little bit at a time...

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Toe Dipping Into View Transitions | CSS-Tricks
The View Transitions API is more a set of features than it is about any one particular thing. And it gets complex fast. But in this post, we’ll cover a couple ways to dip your toes into the waters wit...
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February 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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The Popover API is now Baseline Newly available

https://web.dev/blog/popover-baseline?hl=en
February 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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🕵️‍♂️ Revealed: React's experimental animations API.

Yes, React is getting its first native animations component. Discover in my new post, with live demos, copy/pasteable code, and a full examples minisite.

🔗 Read all about it: motion.dev/blog/reacts-...
Revealed: React's experimental animations API - Motion Blog
React is experimenting with a new animation API based on the View Transition API. How does it work? What can it do? We reveal all in this blog post.
motion.dev
January 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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New in Chrome DevTools: Skip irrelevant scripts in the Flame Chart! Debugging is faster and more actionable 🙏
February 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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The @view-transition at-rule has two descriptions. One is the commonly used `navigation`. The other is `types`, one that likely envies all the attention `navigation` gets, but it opens up new possibilities for custom view transitions when navigating between pages.

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What On Earth Is The `types` Descriptor In View Transitions? | CSS-Tricks
The @view-transition at-rule has two descriptions. One is the commonly used navigation descriptor. The second is types, the lesser-known of the two, and one that probably envies how much attention nav...
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January 29, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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🎯 We’re getting spoiled with new CSS animation features — scroll-driven animations, view transitions, and more. But small ease-of-life features often make the biggest impact! Explore @​starting-style and transition-behavior — two must-know additions: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/01/tran...
January 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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A great example of how reference boxes can be used as positioning shortcuts in CSS when placing one element around another.

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Positioning Text Around Elements With CSS Offset | CSS-Tricks
When it comes to positioning elements on a page, including text, there are many ways to go about it in CSS — the literal position property with corresponding inset-* properties, translate, margin, anc...
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January 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Top Pens of 2024 on CodePen
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January 24, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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A few things you ✨might✨ not know about CSS custom counter styles.

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Some Things You Might Not Know About Custom Counter Styles | CSS-Tricks
I was reading through Juan's recent Almanac entry for the @counter-style at-rule and I'll be darned if he didn't uncover and unpack some extremely interesting
css-tricks.com
January 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
This article covers some handy CSS techniques, including:
* Linear Easing for Animations
* Typed Custom Properties
* View Transitions
Check it out: nerdy.dev/6-css-snippe...
#CSS #frontend #webdev
6 CSS Snippets Every Front-End Developer Should Know In 2025 · January 19, 2025
Toolbelt worthy, powerful, and meaningful CSS you'll need for 2025.
nerdy.dev
January 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Must reads for web developers - how modern browsers work:

1️⃣ bit.ly/browsers-pt1
2️⃣ bit.ly/browsers-pt2
3️⃣ bit.ly/browsers-pt3
4️⃣ bit.ly/browsers-pt4

and browser.engineering a free to read book on the topic
January 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Holy smokes, Balancing Text in CSS by @ishadeed.com is a phenomenal deep dive into a thorny subject. Definitely worth a read: ishadeed.com/article/bala...

#css
Balancing Text In CSS
Make text look more balanced with text-wrap in CSS.
ishadeed.com
January 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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The State of JS 2024 survey results are now live! 2024.stateofjs.com/en-US

A couple highlights 🧵
State of JavaScript 2024
The 2024 edition of the annual survey about the latest trends in the JavaScript ecosystem.
2024.stateofjs.com
December 16, 2024 at 2:47 AM
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Safari 18.2 is here! For web developers, it’s the biggest release of new features this year. Highlights include cross-document View Transitions, text-box, spatial videos in visionOS, ruby improvements, WASM garbage collection, HTTPS by default, Genmoji, and more.

webkit.org/blog/16301/w...
December 11, 2024 at 6:35 PM
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Un'indagine dell'OCSE dice che siamo agli ultimi posti tra i paesi avanzati per abilità di calcolo e comprensione del testo, e per l'economia è un guaio
Le scarse competenze dei lavoratori italiani - Il Post
Un'indagine dell'OCSE dice che siamo agli ultimi posti tra i paesi avanzati per abilità di calcolo e comprensione del testo, e per l'economia è un guaio
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December 10, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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What Do The State of CSS and HTML Surveys Tell Us? https://web.dev/blog/state-of-css-html-2024?hl=en
What do the State of CSS and HTML surveys tell us?  |  Blog  |  web.dev
A look at the survey results from the State of HTML and State of CSS surveys.
web.dev
December 10, 2024 at 5:30 PM
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React v19 is now stable!

react.dev/blog/2024/12...
React v19 – React
The library for web and native user interfaces
react.dev
December 5, 2024 at 7:05 PM
React 19 is Stable!

react.dev/blog/2024/12...
React v19 – React
The library for web and native user interfaces
react.dev
December 6, 2024 at 8:10 AM
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React v19, now with Web Component support!

Creating and managing React wrappers for our clients' design systems has long been a pain in the ass. This is very welcome step in the right direction. bradfrost.com/blog/link/re...
December 5, 2024 at 8:28 PM
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✍️ "Hard truths about AI-assisted coding" tips & tricks in my latest article: bit.ly/ai-assisted

While AI-Assisted coding can get you 70% of the way there (great for prototypes or MVPs), the final 30% requires significant human intervention for quality and maintainability.
December 5, 2024 at 12:07 AM
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Awesome Docs Gallery: A Crowdsourced, Open-Source Gallery for High-quality Dev Docs - https://awesome-docs.gallery/
Awesome Docs Gallery — A crowdsourced, open-source gallery for high-quality dev docs.
Discover high-quality developer documentation resources in our crowdsourced gallery. Find the best payments, ML-AI, IaaS, SaaS, API and cloud docs.
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December 5, 2024 at 12:30 AM
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in case you missed it, the first react compiler beta dropped

among other things is official support for React 17+ so you can try it even with an old React (and yes, version 17 is four years old, which is about seventy five in the javascript years)
React Compiler Beta Release – React
The library for web and native user interfaces
react.dev
October 23, 2024 at 6:31 AM
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Tip: In Chrome DevTools, we added a new AI Assistance panel. Debug & tweak CSS using natural language prompts!
November 27, 2024 at 8:27 PM