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 12 months, I’m effectively off that mark and figured it’s excessive time to place pen to paper. The very fact is that quite a bit is going on round right here at CSS-Methods — and it’s all good things.
The Almanac is rolling
Within the final publish of 2024, I stated that filling the Almanac was a high precedence heading into this 12 months. We had lately refreshed the entire dang factor, full with utterly new sections for documenting CSS selectors, at-rules, and capabilities on high of the sections we already had for properties and pseudo-selectors. The one drawback is that these new sections had been fairly naked.
Effectively, not solely has this staff stepped as much as produce a bunch of recent content material for these new sections, however so have you ever. Collectively, we’ve printed 21 new Almanac entries for the reason that 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 actually don’t count on us to maintain this type of tempo all 12 months. A whole 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.
A whole lot of podcasts and occasions
These of you who know me know that I’m not probably the most social individual in all of the land. Sure, I like hanging out with people and all that, however I are likely to preserve 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 superb 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 great Smashing Journal staff. I bought to hang around with Adam Argyle, Julia Micene, and Miriam Suzanne, all of whom blew my socks off with their displays and panel dialogue on what’s new and attainable in trendy CSS.
- I’m co-hosting a brand-new podcast with Brad Frost known 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 speak extra concerning the issues we have a tendency to speak much less about in our work as net designers and builders — the touchy-feely facet of what we do. We coated 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 no less than, 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 speak store with a bunch of probably the most considerate, insightful folks 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 trustworthy and say {that a} full information about styling counters in CSS was not the very first thing that got here to my thoughts after we began planning new concepts, however I’ll be darned if Juan didn’t display simply how large a subject it’s. There are such a lot of concerns in terms of styling counters — design! accessibility! semantics! — and the variety of instruments we now have in CSS to model them is mind-boggling, together with two capabilities that look very related however have vastly totally different capabilities for creating customized counters — counter() and counters() (that are additionally freshly printed within the Almanac).
On the finish of final 12 months, 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 have the ability to get one other complete information out earlier than the tip of the 12 months.
Authors
I feel probably the most thrilling replace of all is getting to acknowledge the parents who’ve printed new articles with us for the reason that final replace. Please assist me prolong 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 web site could be attainable with out ongoing assist from Juan Diego Rodriguez and Ryan Trimble. These two not solely do quite a lot of heavy lifting to maintain the content material machine fed, however they’re additionally simply two great individuals who make my job much more enjoyable and pleasant. Significantly, guys, you imply quite a bit to this web site and me!
