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✨ Once upon a time, rounded corners meant five background images. Then border-radius arrived. Now, the corner-shape property takes CSS corners one step further, opening the door to beveled, scooped, and squircle corners: smashingmagazine.com/2026/03/beyond…

Time to put my money where my mouth is! 💸 In recent months, I’ve updated my site with a range of progressive enhancements. It is rock-solid across all modern browsers and is finally live! With a story 📖: utilitybend.com/blog/putting-m…

🚀Do we like scroll-driven animations? yes! Do we want scroll-triggered animations? Also yes! Would it be cool to combine them? Ow hell yes! And that's just what I did in this year's Valentine's article, enjoy! ❤️❤️ utilitybend.com/blog/css-anima…

🚀 Is it scrolled? Is it not? Let's find out with CSS @container scroll-state() queries. utilitybend.com/blog/is-it-scr…

🚀 I didn't think I'd start the year with another demo on customizable select, but people should know about the upcoming things. The multiselect might still be a bit further down the road, but the size attribute updates should be shipped with Chrome 145.😍 utilitybend.com/blog/an-update…

@utilitybend If you like exploring browser boundaries and finding out how far native HTML and CSS can really go, this one’s for you. 🌎 webexpo.net/prague2026/ses…

🚀❄️ Yep, another "holidays" blog article. As tradition, I always try to create a little "happy holidays" card as well, with something new and shiny in CSS. This time, the corner-shape property in CSS. Happy Holidays, ya'll utilitybend.com/blog/css-corne…

✨ CSS Wrapped 2025 is out! We’re entering a world where CSS can increasingly handle logic, state, and complex interactions once reserved for JavaScript. ↬ Here’s an unpacking of the highlights and how they connect to the broader evolution of modern CSS:smashingmagazine.com/2025/12/state-…

I've been working a bit with Tailwind lately, and without jumping into a rage article, I took some time to gather my thoughts. It's not my favourite tool, but why? Here is an honest article on that: utilitybend.com/blog/why-tailw…

Barbecue, D&D, and UI. This episode is packed with my favourite things. But one thing I'm extremely happy about is that @ShopTalkShow talked about <rangegroup> from #OpenUI. Thank you for the nice words as well! Let's make this happen. youtube.com/watch?v=rx3gQk…

🚀 I made a holiday wishlist for @ChromeDevTools in November! Because I can 😀 What's the thing you'd like to see to simplify your CSS/layout debugging? utilitybend.com/blog/5-css-deb… #Chrome #DevTools #CSS

It's about this info, my phone was so called eligible for the fix. But maybe if it gets stalled enough with bureaucracy the problem solves itself 😅 support.google.com/pixelphone/ans…

Been going back and forth with @Google support for my phone that was under so called extended warranty for a pink line... One month since it started, no decent answers, phone travelled to Poland 2 times and returned... I really expected better 😔

🚀 There should be a native way to have more than one thumb on a range slider. For this, I need your help. I created a starting point and would love you all to talk about it and give some feedback. utilitybend.com/blog/a-native-…

Happy "View Transitions Level 1 support in all major browsers" Day! 🎉 With Firefox 144 now stable, everyone gets beautiful transitions with Astro ClientRouter

🚀As a case study, I tried to recreate the famous Guess Who game with built-in AI and the Prompt API. You can read about it on the Chrome for developers blog. #AI #Gemini #Chrome developer.chrome.com/blog/ai-guessi…

🚀The new CSS sibling-index() and sibling-count() functions let us create staggered animations, dynamic color palettes, and even complex circular layouts with ease. I wrote about my first experiments with these fantastic new CSS additions. So much fun! ♥️ utilitybend.com/blog/styling-s…

If you thought we were done with View Transitions, guess again! Chrome is working on “Scoped View Transitions” which allow you to scope a VT to a subtree of the DOM. This unlocks things like concurrent VTs and prevents layering issues. Thread on 🦋: bsky.app/profile/bram.u…

🚀A new HTML feature, interestfor, allows for hover-triggered popovers. But how do they work on touch? The article shows different solutions for making them accessible on touch devices, and my thoughts on them. Share your thoughts! #WebDev #HTML #openui utilitybend.com/blog/html-popo…