Why AI-Generated UIs Look 'Off' — and the One Principle That Fixes It
You've seen it. You ask an AI to build a dashboard, and it returns something that's… fine? Every component is individually competent. The button is a …
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How to Add Living Photo Effects to Your Web Portfolio
Static portfolios blend together. Every designer's site has the same grid of JPEGs. We wanted something different for our own product pages at Inithou…
How I made cssnano ~30% faster
Introduction In 2025 I started contributing to cssnano , the CSS minifier that runs at the end of a lot of build pipelines. If you use PostCSS, there'…
I built a hardware-inspired UI component library in pure Vanilla JS — here's how
Most UI components feel like UI components. You click a toggle and it moves. Fine. It works. But it doesn't feel like anything. I wanted to change tha…
How I Built an Age Calculator Using HTML, CSS and JavaScript
How I Built an Age Calculator Using HTML, CSS and JavaScript I recently built a simple Age Calculator web application using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. …
Why we still hand-code marketing sites in 2026 (GSAP, no page builder)
Page builders won. Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, and Framer cover most small business needs in an afternoon. So why would anyone still hand-code a market…
Premium micro-interactions in React 19 (without the jank)
There's a specific kind of bad animation I notice immediately: the count-up stat that stutters as it ticks, the progress bar that lags a frame behind …
Stop flattening your typography tokens: Preserving bound aliases in W3C exports
I was looking at a pull request last Monday. The marketing team had just rolled out a massive rebrand. We swapped our primary typeface from Inter to a…
HTML TAGS & CSS PROPERTIES
What are HTML Tags? HTML documents consist of a series of elements, and these elements are defined using HTML tags. HTML tags are essential building b…
I replaced GSAP DrawSVG with 4.4 KB (and it uses native CSS where it can)
The setup You know the pattern. You have an SVG — a logo, a path, a hand-drawn illustration — and you want it to draw itself as the user scrolls. It l…
HTML
HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the standard language used to create web pages. Every website starts with HTML. It helps structure the content of …
You Should Skill It: Solving a Year-Old CSS Bottleneck With an AI Skill
There's a certain kind of problem that lives rent-free in your head for months. Not urgent enough to drop everything for, but annoying enough that you…
Positions Elements in CSS
CSS positioning is used to control the placement of elements on a web page. It allows elements to be positioned relative to the normal document flow, …
Modern css kills js
Modern CSS is evolving at an incredible pace. Tasks that previously required heavy libraries or complex JavaScript scripts are now becoming native par…
I Asked AI to Fix My UI 20+ Times. The Problem Wasn't My Prompts.
The feature was done. Everything worked. I opened the browser, looked at the page, and thought: it's functional, but it's just... off. So I did what f…
CSS Scroll-Driven Animations: No JavaScript Required
Originally published on danholloran.me If you've ever added a scroll progress bar to a page or built a "reveal on scroll" effect, you've probably reac…
Frontend Status: свежий дайджест фронтенда и AI — 25.05.2026
Привет! Это 16 выпуск Frontend Status — дайджеста по фронтенд-разработке. В этом выпуске: 📺 Если Next.js кажется слишком «магическим»: интервью с созд…
Class and Pseudo Class
HTML Class Attribute The class attribute in HTML assigns one or more class names to elements so they can be styled with CSS or manipulated using JavaS…
NonSemantic Tags in HTML
What are Non Semantic Tags in HTML? Non semantic tags are HTML tags that do not tell you what kind of content they contain. They are just general-purp…
CSS in 2026: Container Queries, Cascade Layers, and the End of Utility-Class Bloat
CSS in 2026: Container Queries, Cascade Layers, and the End of Utility-Class Bloat CSS in 2026 has fundamentally changed how we write styles. The comb…
Building a Mini Tailwind-to-CSS Converter — How Utility Class Names Map to Real CSS
Tailwind is "just CSS." But what exactly does bg-blue-500 text-white px-6 py-3 rounded-lg font-bold shadow-md resolve to? I wrote a 500-line vanilla J…
CSS in 2026: Container Queries, Cascade Layers, and the End of Utility-Class Bloat
CSS in 2026: Container Queries, Cascade Layers, and the End of Utility-Class Bloat CSS in 2026 has fundamentally changed how we write styles. The comb…
CSS in 2026: Container Queries, Cascade Layers, and the End of Utility-Class Bloat
CSS in 2026: Container Queries, Cascade Layers, and the End of Utility-Class Bloat CSS in 2026 has fundamentally changed how we write styles. The comb…
A sticky parallax hero in twenty lines of JS
Where the idea came from A few weeks ago someone asked on a forum how to recreate the Mammut hero — the one where a full-screen image pins to the view…
How to fix the 'AI-generated' look in your frontend
The problem: every AI site looks like the same AI site I did a small experiment last month. I asked three different code-gen tools to build me a landi…
Build & Release #2: Five Patches for One Line of CSS
I was running through a quick test on April 27 when I noticed something almost funny. Light background. White-ish text. Just barely legible enough tha…
🚀 What’s New in Tailwind CSS v4.3: Top Features with Code Examples
If you haven’t checked out the latest Tailwind CSS v4.3 release yet, you are missing out on some massive workflow upgrades. This update brings long-aw…
HTML and CSS
SEMANTIC TAGS A semantic element clearly describes its meaning to both the browser and the developer. Examples of non-semantic elements: div and span …
Responsive Design Is Changing Again: AI-Generated CSS vs CSS Architecture
Responsive design is shifting from viewport-driven (media queries) to intrinsic / behavior-driven (the layout adapts to its content and container). AI…
Critical CSS: What Render-Blocking Means and How Inlining Fixes It
Related: The Browser Main Thread and Rendering Pipeline explains the full rendering pipeline that critical CSS inlining is optimizing for. Lighthouse …