Posts on development — Page 4

The auto-growing textarea has been a JavaScript rite of passage for years. A single CSS declaration now does the whole job, and it works on inputs and selects too.

Fallow is a Rust-native tool that maps your whole TS/JS codebase to catch dead code, duplication, and architecture drift. Here's how it fits alongside ESLint, Prettier, and agent guidelines when you're reviewing PRs you didn't write.

A walkthrough of a custom Claude Code status line that renders context and rate-limit usage as colored bars and turns your repo name into a clickable link.

The Navigation API hit Baseline in early 2026, giving SPAs a single, purpose-built place to intercept and manage routing. Here's why it finally replaces the History API.

The high-voltage variant of Grimicorn keeps every semantic role and swaps in eight electric hexes. Here's what changes, what doesn't, and the contrast tradeoff that makes neon-on-black a deliberate choice.

A practical look at scheduler.yield(), the browser API that breaks up long tasks and keeps the main thread responsive without the setTimeout penalty.

How I turned a single calm, low-fatigue color palette into matching dark and light themes for VS Code, terminals, Obsidian, Claude Code and ten other tools — all generated from one source of truth.

GraphQL fragments let each component declare exactly the fields it needs, eliminating overfetching and the hidden dependencies that make GraphQL codebases painful to refactor.

Unregistered CSS custom properties can't animate — they just snap. @property fixes that by giving the browser a type, a default, and an inheritance rule, unlocking smooth transitions for gradients, counters, and design tokens.