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Why Is the World Losing Color? The rise of Chromophobia...
https://www.culture-critic.com/p/why-is-the-world-losing-color

Is Graphic Design Dead?
Graphic design isn’t dead, it’s evolving. Inspired by a Threads post, this piece dives into the art vs. design debate, AI’s impact, and why selling your value matters.

Top 5 CSS Navigation Menu Mistakes
In this guide, you'll learn to recognize and avoid some of the most common UI gotchas with navigation menus.
https://blog.css-weekly.com/top-5-css-navigation-menu-mistakes

The systemic failure of implementing CSS principles
Before CSS came along, HTML did not have a version specifically dedicated to styling. But, back in the days when I started creating webpages around 1996, I still managed to style and layout pages using HTML's attributes and tags.
https://www.adavanzo.com/articles/2025/the-systemic-failure-of-implementing-css-principles

Expanding CSS Shadow Effects
Design principles tell us a shadow is conveys that light is hiding an object, which casts the shadow behind it, giving us a sense of depth. However, if that’s all a shadow is ever used for, then it has not been utilized to its full potential. 
https://frontendmasters.com/blog/expanding-css-shadow-effects/

Cover Flow with Modern CSS: Scroll-Driven Animations in Action
Cover Flow – the iconic carousel of tilted album covers made famous by Apple in the late 2000s – remains a visually striking UI pattern. Originally seen in iTunes and Mac OS X Finder, Cover Flow let users flip through items as if browsing a tangible collection.
https://addyosmani.com/blog/coverflow/

WebGL Scroll Sync
A Little Demo to show how to sync the WebGL visual with the DOM elements. Learn more on our GitHub repo.
https://webgl-scroll-sync.lusion.co/

CSS-only glitch effect
Let me show you how I created a CSS-only image glitch effect. I was working on the robot poet and wanted my robotic bard to glitch - because it felt fitting given the quality of poetry it generates.
https://muffinman.io/blog/css-image-glitch/

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