Archive: April 2026

No matter how rapidly technology changes, I am coalescing around some core beliefs:

1. Things that are worth doing are worth doing well.
2. Things that are done well require time and effort.
3. You make meaning through the doing.
4. Ideas are common; effort is not.
5. There are no shortcuts.

I just read Dave Rupert’s post on Inverted themes with light-dark(). It’s great.

I wish light-dark() accepted any value and not just colors. I have a use case where I use lighter font weights in dark mode.

Bramus wrote about a custom --light-dark() function using @function, if() and color-scheme() that would solve this in the future.

Just watched the latest Whiskey Web and Whatnot episode with Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert. No one would’ve guessed that I was watching a web dev podcast from how much I was laughing.

At one point in the episode Adam mentions, “holy crap, my job is now leftover tokens in a burn window”. If Adam can feel like AI is making his work redundant then what hope do I have? 🙈

Harry Roberts on what CSS containment actually is, what each contain value does, and how to use it confidently on real projects without creating hard-to-debug side effects.

Last week, I built a visual explainer of the CSS Cascade.

I used anchor positioning with chained anchors to stack the cascade steps. It worked, but Safari 26.4 and earlier had a bug with chained anchors, so I had to exclude Safari entirely via an @supports hack.

I wasn’t entirely happy with that, so I refactored the layout to use a subgrid based approach with grid-template-areas. Since subgrid became Baseline Widely Available recently, the timing also worked out.

While I was at it, I also restructured the HTML such that each cascade step is now a list item inside an ordered list, which gives better semantics.