Writing about frontend development, design engineering, and the details that make interfaces feel right.
Most CSS shadows are dark blurry rectangles. Real shadows have layers, direction, and falloff.
Not all CSS properties are equal. Some animations run on the GPU at 60fps with zero layout cost. Others force the browser to recalculate the entire page every single frame.
Why mathematically centered elements look off-center to the human eye, and the sub-pixel corrections that separate polished interfaces from amateur ones.
You wouldn't pick a typeface at random. So why are you using ease-in-out for every animation?
Building the full Wordle game in React under time pressure, and what happens when you stop overthinking architecture.
How to make an iframe behave like a real browser preview, not a cropped screenshot.