- I need a crypto trade bot
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- Make no mistakes

The Struggle is What We Crave On the death of web dev communities, the callouses that made us better, and why eliminating struggle might be the worst thing we've ever built.

The thing I loved about this industry is dying, and I'm watching it happen from the inside.

dommagnifi.co/2026-04-01-t...

Temporal Temporal is Stage 4. JavaScript finally has a real date API, which means your date library can start looking like dead weight.

More in the lab 🧑‍🔬 dommagnifi.co/lab/temporal/

Working with dates in JavaScript has always been a nightmare.

Because Date sucks, we needed a pile of workarounds for a 30-year-old mistake. That's why so many projects use moment or day.js.

Temporal reached Stage 4 recently. Time to uninstall all those dependencies.

color-mix(): one brand color, every state Generate hover states, disabled states, and tinted variants from one brand custom property with pure CSS color-mix().

dommagnifi.co/lab/color-mix/

I love color-mix(). Trying to derive shades and hues by eye is such a pain in the ass, and I've been guilty of eyeballing hex values for way too long.

Set one color, mix it with white or black in oklch, and get hover/disabled states, dark mode tints, whatever. All from one source.

New lab entry 👇

text-wrap: balance & pretty Two CSS one-liners that fix ugly text wrapping. balance evens out headings, pretty kills paragraph orphans. No JS required.

👉 dommagnifi.co/lab/text-wra...

Another day, another lab entry.

If you've ever manually added <br> tags to fix heading wraps... stop it.

text-wrap: balance is rad. And text-wrap: pretty handles single word orphan lines in paragraphs.

Link 👇

attr() + content Pull data attributes into rendered text with zero JavaScript using CSS attr() and the content property on pseudo-elements.

www.dommagnifi.co/lab/data-att...

I'm doing a thing now where I try to rediscover CSS properties I forgot about, or find new ones that are interesting to me. Today's is attr(). You can pull data attributes straight into the content property. No JS, no extra DOM. It's been in the spec forever and I just... never use it.

scroll-margin-top: Stop Hiding Content Behind Sticky Headers CSS's scroll-margin-top property prevents content from hiding behind sticky headers when using anchor links.

Lil interactive demo

www.dommagnifi.co/lab/scroll-m...

I always forget about scroll-margin-top. If you have sticky or fixed nav type UI on your site, paired with anchor navigation, it will offset the scroll target so your content lands below the sticky element instead of hiding behind it. 🔥

Ten Years of Uncomfortable I wrote that. Ten years ago. I should probably listen to myself more.

Haven't written anything on my personal site since 2015. Here's what I've got ten years later...

www.dommagnifi.co/2026-03-02-t...

WordPress Block HTML Reference - Complete Developer Guide The ultimate resource for WordPress Gutenberg block HTML markup, syntax, and properties. Learn WordPress block development with interactive examples and comprehensive documentation.

I built out a documentation site for the insane block markup associated with #WordPress Gutenberg blocks. There were sparse docs, and using the WP Block GitHub as a reference was silly. Contributions and feedback welcome 🤘

Documentation Site: www.wpblockdocs.com
GitHub: github.com/house-of-gia...

I’m getting fed up of making the rich, richer - Andy Bell After bring rather miserable about the work we do vs the work we want to do, I&#8217;ve come up with a possible solution that helps everyone.

New on the blog bell.bz/im-getting-f...

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🔥🔥 All roads inevitably lead back to an excellent Una post! It's cool to see some of these programmatic functions coming to CSS and being iterated on.

First Look at The Modern attr() Exploring the modern attr() in CSS

Been checking out the new stuff with attr() lately, seems pretty slick!

ishadeed.com/article/mode...

Excellent post showcasing the power of attr()!

We made a weird thing @houseofgiants.com - Feed the void.

sleep.houseofgiants.com

Carousels & Sliders: Eye Candy or Page Bloat?

Did a little writing about the bane of every web developers existence. The Carousel 👹.

houseofgiants.com/blog/carouse...

designtokens.fyi Defining terms for design tokens.

OH HELL YEAH. A mega-helpful glossary for design tokens by @donnie.damato.design: designtokens.fyi

Those stone buttons - *chefs kiss*

Even though the #WordPress ecosystem kind of stinks right now, I wrote a high-level primer for folks about what the Gutenberg editor is.

houseofgiants.com/blog/what-th...

Please provide me the assets I don't want to have to zoom in with the lasso tool to trace these hands myself in photoshop thank you.

Did you see how the Rockies have a preliminary 0% chance to make it to the postseason this year?

Indeed! I'm not terribly well versed in Web Components beyond little test cases, but I definitely do worry that naming conventions will go the way of hashed CSS classes that come out of build processes.

Web Components are a hot topic - I love the potential they have for nice clean markup. At the same time it feels like the wild west again in terms of being able to do anything you want within the markup.

I worry about the future being incoherent hashed Web Component names.

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