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animation-trigger

The CSS animation-trigger property allows you to delay the start of a CSS animation until a specific trigger occurs. animation-trigger originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

Rodrigo@mathsppblog

Why OOP exists

Learn the fundamental principles behind OOP and how they connect to the syntax of Python. Introduction Welcome! This article will teach you the core ideas behind object-oriented programming, commonly known as OOP. This is the article I wish I read ...

Justin Searls

📸 Engrish is so back

[Translator's note: buffet dining is often referred to as バイキング ("Viking") in Japan. Here's why.] Over the past 15 years, Japan had gradually improved the accuracy and quality of English language signs and guidance. This is despite a precipitous drop ...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: The age of disinvention (25 Aug 2026)

Today's links The age of disinvention: 🟥1️⃣2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣🟥1️⃣2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣🟥️1️⃣2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣🟥1️⃣2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣🟥1️⃣2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣🟥1️⃣2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣🟥 Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Metacrap; CmdrTaco retires; Chalk memorial for Jack Layton; By all means tread on these people. Upcoming appearances: Sydney, Melbourne, Brighton, London, South Bend. Recent ...

Ted Merz

100 Percent AI

There are some lessons from today’s dustup on social media about writing with AI. If you missed it, hedge fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller used AI to write a big op-ed in the Wall Street Journal in which he criticized Treasury ...

PythonBytes

#493: CalVer and LTS

Topics covered in this episode: Web UIs for your reverse proxy Wagtail 8.0 is hot off the presses RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython Django’s annual releases make every version an LTS Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the ...

CSS Tricks

MicroLighter: Syntax Highlighter

Syntax highlighting for code blocks without the complicated markup, spans, classes, and bloated JavaScript, courtesy of Uncle Dave. MicroLighter: Syntax Highlighter originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

Maurycyz

Uranium from Příbram (Czechia)

All images are links to high quality versions. RC-102: 1.7 kCPS [43 uSv/h]. AB+: 55 CPS, 1960 CPS Uraninite nodules in calcite (?). Unlike the Colorado plateau rocks, the veins are nice and clean (although not chemically pure) which results ...

Derek Kedziora

Equanimity and genocide

I recently listened to two completely unrelated Buddhist lectures that involved developing equanimity as an important part of Buddhist ethics. Both were met by Westerners thinking they had the ultimate gotcha question. Obviously, you need to have a strong position ...

CSS Tricks

WordPress PHP-Only Block Registration

Seven and half years after blocks arrived in Core, WordPress introduces a way to build blocks without React annd build pipelines. All you need is PHP. WordPress PHP-Only Block Registration originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should ...