Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders

by Gene Crawford | May 2, 2025

Here’s a CSS technique that produces blurry image placeholders (LQIPs) without cluttering up your markup — Only a single custom property needed!

Full-Bleed Layout with Modern CSS

by Gene Crawford | Apr 30, 2025

I recently shared a trick on how to create a Full-bleed layout using a few lines of modern CSS code. If you are unfamiliar with such layout see the demo below. In this article we’ll dig deeper into the idea and explain things as we go.

View Transitions Applied

by Gene Crawford | Apr 29, 2025

Smoothly animating a border-radius with a View Transition

Anime.js

by Gene Crawford | Apr 22, 2025

All-in-one animation engine. A fast and versatile JavaScript library to animate CSS.

Kerning, the Hard Way

by Gene Crawford | Apr 18, 2025