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The Index: Issue #194

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Published: August 14, 2026 11:55

Cooking Notebook Josh Nesbitt is an immense cook, trust us, and they've compiled some great recipes for this very nice website. They're using tabular recipe layouts, which is also a nice touch. Keeping type consistent in changing conditions Yet another…

Personal website redesign project post: A little progressive enhancement as a treat

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Published: August 13, 2026 11:55

For a long time, I've included last.fm and Open Scrobbler links on each music collection item's detail page in some shape or form because those are pretty straightforward to render, but something I really wanted on this new website was provide more links…

The Index: Issue #193

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Published: August 7, 2026 11:55

Your ‘App’ could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you…) A thoroughly enjoyable read! SmoothCSS Complete CSS alumni, Rob McCormick, has built a really nice looking design system/CSS framework/UI kit. The CSS lh unit An extremely useful unit for…

Working with ::highlight() using progressive enhancement

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Published: August 6, 2026 11:55

Highlighting in CSS has been beneficial for applying a highlight on specific text or text fragments during user selection, emphasizing a piece of information on a website, or visually emphasizing a text for the sake of branding. Particularly, this is…

The Index: Issue #192

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Published: July 31, 2026 11:55

CodePen 2.0 is here Hats off to the CodePen team for getting their huge 2.0 release over the line. The possibilities really are endless and that's a great achievement for a team of 5! 95 reasons for having your own website Does exactly what it says on the…

Personal website redesign project post: Getting started with implementing my music collection

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Published: July 30, 2026 11:55

We're getting close to the last part of iteration one — the skeletal build of the site. Good! I'm getting eager to get on with the design work now. For some reason, doing this series (along with being busy in general) has stifled my ability to think…

The Index: Issue #191

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Published: July 17, 2026 11:55

Howdy! Before we get into the links, we're going to take a break next week, so we'll see you on July 31 🌴 Art as resistence More of this please! Mildliner reference If you've ever thought "I wish I could use Midliner marker colours on the web" then this…

Use cases for aria-expanded

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Published: July 16, 2026 11:55

Communication can be difficult. Not only when we humans try to communicate with one another, but also in web development. While it is easy for sighted people with full mental and motor abilities to click a button with a mouse to display more information,…

The Index: Issue #190

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Published: July 10, 2026 11:55

Code TV: The best landing page ever We very rarely share video content, but this episode was an absolute delight to watch. They're running a hackathon too which is well worth checking out. New Game+ Mat has not given up and nor should you! Kyroh font Dan…

Proxy and Reflect

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Published: July 9, 2026 11:55

FYI I'm Mat, author of Piccalilli's very own [JavaScript for Everyone](https://piccalil.li/javascript-for-everyone), a course designed to help you make the jump from junior- to senior developer. As ever, I'm here to teach you JavaScript — not just the…