In our latest issue, we explore the finesse of CSS, exploring approaches to animate borders and streamline styling with variable groups as proposed by Lea Verou.
We’re also stepping into the AI frontier with a look at Grok-1, and taking a look at the impact of web bloat on slower devices.
This blog post explores a designer’s experience with Codux, a game-changer for visual editors in React projects. It lets designers visually tweak the code, reducing the back-and-forth with developers. Discover how Codux puts you in control of your designs in production.
Learn about the fully managed SQL database service tailored for the Astro web framework, named Astro DB, featuring a focus on content-driven websites and leveraging libSQL for compatibility and efficiency in data handling.
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence enterprise, xAI, has made the foundational model weights and structure of Grok-1 publicly available. Grok-1, which powers the Grok chatbot on X, is detailed on xAI’s blog as a pre-training model with 314 billion parameters, designed without specific optimizations for any singular task.
Andy Bell discusses the importance of rhythm in web design, highlighting how consistent spacing and alignment can improve user experience and visual appeal.
This analysis indicates that although the exponential increase in bandwidth has somewhat mitigated web bloat issues since 2017, the slow progression of CPU performance relative to bandwidth has made modern web increasingly inaccessible on low-end devices.
Lea Verou proposes a method to group CSS variables for better maintainability and readability, showcasing how structured variables can enhance styling strategies in web development.
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