Whether 2026 has already begun as you’re reading this or you’re still waiting for the big countdown to start, how about some new wallpapers to get your desktop ready for the new year? We’ve got you covered. A new year is the perfect opportunity to break free from routines, reset habits, and refine how you…
Let’s start with the hard truth you already suspect: most advice about starting a cybersecurity career is garbage. It’s either intimidating technical jargon from experts who forgot what being a beginner feels like, or empty hype from influencers selling you a dream. You’re told to “just learn to hack” while job postings demand 3 years of…
There’s a nice article by Enzo Manuel Mangano called Checkbox Interactions – The beauty of Layout Animations. In the end, you get some nicely animated checkboxes, essentially: I like it. It’s a modern-looking multiple-choice with very clear UX. Enzo’s tutorial is all React Native-ified. I think Enzo is a React Native guy and that’s his…
2026 is almost upon us. I know we’re all itching to see the clock strike midnight (cue The Final Countdown by Europe), but not without recapping the best CSS-related things that happened over the last two weeks! Conditional view transitions Chris Coyier showed us how to trigger different view transitions based on the URL (or…
Practical UX guidelines to keep in mind for 466 million people who experience hearing loss. More design patterns in Smart Interface Design Patterns, a friendly video course on UX and design patterns by Vitaly. When we think about people who are deaf, we often assume stereotypes, such as “disabled” older adults with hearing aids. However,…
Here is the real talk: your giant GitHub folder of 500 tools, your Kali box, loaded with all the extra packages, and your bookmarks folder, full of the latest lists of Top 10 Hacking Tools? They do not make you a pro pentester. They are merely a fine security blanket. You are getting confused between…
My daughter had a little phase of being into Word Searches. I found it to be a cool dad moment when I was like “I’ll make you a tool to make them!”. That’s what she was into. She liked doing them OK, but she really liked the idea of making them. So my tool starts…
If I had to whittle down my favorite thing about CSS-Tricks to one thing — and like Tom Petty hits, there’s a lot of ’em — it’s that we take moments like this to hit Pause and simply write like humans. We’re a super technical site that gets into super technical web dev jargon and…
We get all excited when we get new CSS features. Well, I do anyway. It’s amazing, because sometimes it unlocks something we’ve literally never been able to do before. It’s wonderful when an artist finishes a new painting, and something to be celebrated. But this is more akin to a new color dropping, making possible…
Turn scattered user research into AI-powered personas that give anyone consolidated multi-perspective feedback from a single question. In my previous article, I explored how AI can help us create functional personas more efficiently. We looked at building personas that focus on what users are trying to accomplish rather than demographic profiles that look good on…