🔥 There are 449 Hot Tips!!

Hot tips are spicy lil' nuggets related to web development and tooling that I share on my twitter account. I've logged them here to make them easier to find.

Turns out lots of people use http://fav.farm to get Emoji Favicons!

I added some stats with KV, text matching. Deploys to Deno Deploy in 9 seconds

Here is a little tour of some of neat things I used to build it:

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🤯 Just 4 lines of CSS. View Transitions are great for changing pages BUT it's incredible for animating DOM Updates

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This CSS Backlight Effect is sooooo damn cool!

I've taken it a step further with SVG Filters

Makes it work with any element - including video!

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DBngin is such a good little app for managing local database servers.

Highly recommended if your app needs a MySQL, Postgres or Redis DB

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🤯 How am I just finding out about display: contents;

Suuuuper handy for CSS Flexbox + Grid where the children aren't direct descendants.

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Man! I just keep finding new uses for CSS subgrid!

Two tips you should know:

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I'm sick of the CSS centering jokes.

You can now vertically center the contents of a block level element without Grid of Flexbox!

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Are you using position: absolute; to overlap elements?

It's almost always better to Use CSS Grid instead!

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The new Stripe dev site uses a single grid layout of 24 columns and then uses subgrid nested 5-6 levels deep for all its layout.

This is the first time I've seen this used in production - really neat technique!

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Do you like magic links?

I think Raycast has nailed the UX here to make everyone happy.

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