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Earlier this week I shared a post about how I remembered an old postcard that I got a long time ago, with a cartoon with how the "perfect European" should be: a good driver like the French, with the sense of humor of the German, a good cook like the British, as humble as a Spaniard... and I decided

Last Wednesday, I shared a large CSS-themed crossword. For next Wednesday, I coded a new crossword, and this time, it is HTML themed! Patreon members get early access to a private version of the game. It is not publicly shared on the site, so the only way to access it is through that link. It will b

This will be February 16 comiCSS edition. It is inspired by a Liniers' cartoon and his gnomes (or is it elves?) I created this small cartoon with CSS gnomes fighting about the best background gradient. The radial gradient gnomes advocate for radial gradients, and the linear gradient gnomes advocate

Everyone loves a good conspiracy. The web is held together by standards, browsers, frameworks… and a vast network of deeply suspicious nonsense. CSS specificity? Browser support? JavaScript APIs? What if all of it were part of a much bigger plot? Have you ever wondered if there’s something more goin

New year, new collection of web development puns and short jokes! They are all equally terrible and funny (I wish... in reality they are more terrible than funny). I recently published an article with 100 Web Development Jokes (also available on Medium and DEV), and I’m continuing the "tradition." I

Next week’s cartoon was inspired by a comic strip from Liniers’ Macanudo (always amazing, you should check it out if you haven’t read it before). This comic is one of those recurring reminders to use semantic HTML and to take advantage of all the native capabilities and functionality you get out of

A short comic strip to end the year 2025. What would happen if a comic character coded in HTML and CSS took one of those DNA tests that tells you about your origins and ancestry? The comic in itself has no 2% Tailwind (that was added later for comedic/dramatic purposes), but it does have some JavaSc

Last year, I started creating a collection of toggle switches that already counts with more that 150 different toggles, using a single HTML element (a checkbox) and CSS. It is a fun project that I need to move into its own website. It was just a matter of time that I combined that project with the c

The month of October is the first full month of Autumn/Fall, and best known for celebrations like Halloween and things scary. Many comics make reference to this. I just did a couple of days back, sharing a silly cartoon about CSS turning dark and evil in October... which is unnecessary, because CSS

I know, I know. I shared with you many comics and cartoons last week, and instead of having one of those be the new published cartoon, I go with something new... And it must be the oldest joke in the book of jokes! You can check the coding process on YouTube: https://youtu.be/bYwf1fM3o-U (I didn't t

This is a longer comic than usual, and I was planning on publishing it in a few weeks, but looking at the news cycle, I thought that just as well it could be published now. If it is familiar, it's because it is inspired on a comic strip from Pearls Before Swine (by Stephan Pastis), in which Pig floa

A couple of years ago, I came across a funny cartoon that used Oreo cookies: the biscuits were labeled as Os and the cream as REs, which were then combined in different ways to generate funny names. Inspired by that idea, I created a semi-educational video to explain the CSS property background-repe

Earlier this week, I saw a post online with the word "latibulate." It's an old English word that is as uncommon now as it was when it was first recorded in the 1600s. It comes from the Latin "latibulum" which means "hiding place" and it means to position oneself in a safe and hidden place (like a co

I am really skeptical and have trust issues. But it makes complete and total sense when you work in Web Development in general, and with CSS in particular. Take for example named colors in CSS: Did you know that darkgray is lighter than gray? Or that there is a family of sea green colors (seagreen,

Sometimes it feels like CSS properties and values are way too long and require too much typing, they can be intimidating... but don't fall to the temptation of turning them into acronyms! There are already way too many acronyms (TMAs) in the corporate world (and in the outside world) to make things

Doesn't it feel like Pedro Pascal is everywhere? Fantastic Four, The Mandalorian, The Last of Us, Game of Thrones... even a Spy Kids movie (kind of). It's just like Chris Pratt a few years back (and still): wherever you look, there he is. I tried to bring that idea into one of this absurd, nerd, wei

I finally did it. I created a small library that lets me generate this type of cartoons faster, without repeating code (or not as much) and I used it to create next week's comic. It's about doing things the "old way" (lengthier, simpler, craftier) vs the "new way" (more complex, but faster after the

This past weekend I played a little with the CSS trigonometric functions while creating some CSS Art, so I decided to do a comic about them! And it's kind of a game: the comic has the names of eight trigonometric functions from CSS, can you find all of them? The solution will be at the end of this a

The next comiCSS cartoon is a pie chart coded in HTML and CSS, with a summary of some of the benefits from TailwindCSS... or kind of... 😅 I recorded the process and have put it as an unlisted video until publication on June 30th (next week). Here it is if you want to watch it: https://www.youtube.c

Back to a comic format that I really like. This time it is a cartoon inspired by a different one created by Jim K Benton... hopefully, not as dark or with the dark twist that the original has. In fact, I found several cartoons by Jim Benton that I'd like to recreate in CSS and with a CSS twist. So t

With the rise of Mastodon and Bluesky, replacing Twitter/X, developers are sharing online some neat social widgets to show likes, boosts, or comments on their sites and blogs. But there's a common issue most of these widgets overlook: privacy. Specifically, how they handle user avatars. And yes, it