5 Examples of Creative Customised <select> ElementsUntil now, <select> was one of the few HTML elements without customisation options. Of course, you could include horizontal dividers, group options and some other minor tweaks, but anything more than this meant ditching the native element altogether....
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Daniel Cranney
Dev Digest 213: Petrol Prices, Agentic Workflows, AI Skills and CODE100!Inside last week’s Dev Digest 213 .
🤫 Don’t tell your LLM that it is an expert
👻 AI generated code is invisible
🔄 Learn about agentic workflows
🛡️ Linux Foundation sponsors fight against AI slop
🦠 1M users infected by Chrome extension
🫃 The why of J...
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Daniel Cranney
CSS-Only Scroll-Driven AnimationsScroll-linked animations look slick, but until now it often meant writing a fair amount of JavaScript, scroll event listeners, getBoundingClientRect(), class toggling and so on, with UX benefits often offset by performance downsides.
CSS scroll-drive...
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Daniel Cranney
Tether Elements Without JavaScript with CSS Anchor PositioningConsidering how powerful CSS is, positioning elements relative to other ones for components like tooltips has often involved JavaScript along the way, revealing a weakness in the CSS spec.
Well, baseline since 2026, CSS anchor positioning makes it mu...
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Daniel Cranney, Chris Heilmann
The Overflow: AI and Agentic CodingIn this week’s Overflow - where we shared links we just couldn’t fit in the Dev Digest but were too good to ignore - we’re looking at what’s been happening in the world of AI, coding agents and automation.
As always, you can see this in video form or...
The Overflow: 5 CSS Generators and Visual Design ToolsIf you’ve read The Overflow before you’ll know it’s where we take some time you show you our favourite tools from around the web that we simply couldn’t fit into the always-packed Dev Digest.
This time, we’re looking at five tools for generating CSS ...
