Usually, I prefer to publish one in all these updates each few months. However seeing because the final one dates again to September of final yr, I’m properly off that mark and figured it’s excessive time to place pen to paper. The actual fact is that so much is going on round right here at CSS-Methods — and it’s all great things.
The Almanac is rolling
Within the final put up of 2024, I stated that filling the Almanac was a prime precedence heading into this yr. We had just lately refreshed the entire dang factor, full with fully new sections for documenting CSS selectors, at-rules, and features on prime of the sections we already had for properties and pseudo-selectors. The one downside is that these new sections had been fairly naked.
Nicely, not solely has this crew stepped as much as produce a bunch of latest content material for these new sections, however so have you ever. Collectively, we’ve printed 21 new Almanac entries because the begin of 2025. Right here they’re in all their glory:
What’s even higher? There are at present fourteen extra within the hopper that we’re actively engaged on. I definitely don’t count on us to maintain this type of tempo all yr. Quite a lot of work goes into every entry. Plus, if all we ever did was write in Almanac, we’d by no means get new articles and tutorials out to you, which is de facto what we’re all about round right here.
Quite a lot of podcasts and occasions
These of you who know me know that I’m not essentially the most social individual in all of the land. Sure, I like hanging out with people and all that, however I are likely to hold my actions to back-of-the-house stuff and like to remain out of view.
So, that’s why it’s bizarre for me to name out a number of latest podcast and occasion appearances. It’s not like I do these items all that usually, however they’re enjoyable and I like to notice them, even when its just for posterity.
- I hosted Smashing Meets Accessibility, a mini on-line convention that featured three wonderful audio system speaking concerning the ins and outs of WCAG conformance, finest practices, and unimaginable private experiences formed by incapacity.
- I hosted Smashing Meets CSS, one other mini convention from the fantastic Smashing Journal crew. I bought to hang around with Adam Argyle, Julia Micene, and Miriam Suzanne, all of whom blew my socks off with their shows and panel dialogue on what’s new and potential in trendy CSS.
- I’m co-hosting a brand-new podcast with Brad Frost referred to as Open Up! We recorded the primary episode reside in entrance of an viewers that was allowed to talk up and take part within the dialog. The entire concept of the present is that we discuss extra concerning the issues we have a tendency to speak much less about in our work as internet designers and builders — the touchy-feely aspect of what we do. We lined so many heady subjects, from desperation throughout layoffs to rediscovering function in your work.
- I used to be a visitor on the Psychological Well being in Tech podcast, becoming a member of a panel of different front-enders to debate angst within the face of latest technological developments. The pace and fixed drive to market new applied sciences is dizzying and, to me at the least, off-putting to the extent that I’ve questioned my whole place in it as a developer. What a blast attending to return to the podcast a second time and discuss store with a bunch of essentially the most considerate, insightful individuals you’ll ever hear. I’ll share that when it’s printed.
A brand new information on styling counters
We printed it simply the opposite week! I’ll be sincere and say {that a} full information about styling counters in CSS was not the very first thing that got here to my thoughts once we began planning new concepts, however I’ll be darned if Juan didn’t reveal simply how massive a subject it’s. There are such a lot of issues on the subject of styling counters — design! accessibility! semantics! — and the variety of instruments we’ve got in CSS to fashion them is mind-boggling, together with two features that look very related however have vastly completely different capabilities for creating customized counters — counter() and counters() (that are additionally freshly printed within the Almanac).
On the finish of final yr, I stated I hoped to publish 1-2 new guides, and right here we’re within the first quarter of 2025 with our first one out within the wild! That offers me hope that we’ll be capable to get one other complete information out earlier than the top of the yr.
Authors
I believe essentially the most thrilling replace of all is getting to acknowledge the oldsters who’ve printed new articles with us because the final replace. Please assist me lengthen an enormous spherical of applause to all of the faces who’ve rolled up their sleeves and shared their data with us.
And, in fact, nothing on this website could be potential with out ongoing assist from Juan Diego Rodriguez and Ryan Trimble. These two not solely do a variety of heavy lifting to maintain the content material machine fed, however they’re additionally simply two fantastic individuals who make my job much more enjoyable and pleasing. Significantly, guys, you imply so much to this website and me!
