Jason Wilkens

Only Five People Have Seen This New Impossible Color

There are only so many colors that the typical human eye can see; estimates put the number just below 10 million. But now, for the first time, scientists say they’ve broken out of that familiar spectrum and into a new world of color.

scientificamerican.com • 5m read

React for Two Computers

I’ve been trying to write this post at least a dozen times. I don’t mean this figuratively; at one point, I literally had a desktop folder with a dozen abandoned drafts.

overreacted.io • 72m read

You should know this before choosing Next.js

Picking the technology stack for a project is an important and consequential decision.

eduardoboucas.com

Iosevka

Terminal emulators have a stricter compatibility requirements for fonts. Therefore, Iosevka and Iosevka Slab all contain two specialized families, Term and Fixed, targeting terminal users. In these families, the symbols will be narrower to follow terminals’ ideology of column count.

typeof.net

Using Shaderview directly in a browser:

Method 1: Use a local copy of the files: Download the minified JavaScript module, save it locally, import the element and register it: <script type="module"> import ShaderviewElement from './path/to/element.js'; customElements.

keithclark.github.io • 3m read

Your App Should Have Been A Website (And Probably Your Game Too)

The smartphone boom changed everything. Suddenly, apps were everywhere, connecting people, solving problems, and entertaining us. But for a while now, they’ve started to feel more like a burden than a blessing.

rogueengine.io • 6m read

OKLCH, explained for designers

OKLCH is a new color space that improves design and development with a wider color gamut. Learn why it's the new standard for web colors. Last week, TailwindCSS released their v4 version with revamped color tokens using OKLCH.

desktopofsamuel.com • 3m read

Moving on from 18F.

Note: This post gets into the last few weeks of American politics. If that’s not your cup of tea, or if that’s a stressful topic for you, please feel free to skip this one. (Also, it’s a bit long. Sorry about that.) Last week, I finished my tenure as a designer at 18F.

ethanmarcotte.com • 10m read

Aspect Ratio Changes With CSS View Transitions

So here I am playing with CSS view transitions (again). I’ve followed Dave’s instructions for transitioning the page generally and am now working on individual pieces of UI specifically.

blog.jim-nielsen.com • 2m read

Components AI — A new way to explore generative design systems

Build custom design tools without writing any code. Create responsive components, pages, and sites that you can use in any type of web project. Style markup templates with curated themes or your own design tokens. Import or define design tokens to use in all of your designs.

components.ai

Introducing Ombré...

And then I stumbled my way into . While it's still very early on in development, here was a paradigm that made shader programming feel more like writing regular JavaScript code.

ombre-ui.com • 3m read

Style-observer: JS to observe CSS property changes, for reals

I cannot count the number of times in my career I wished I could run JS in response to CSS property changes, regardless of what triggered them: media queries, user actions, or even other JS. Use cases abound.

lea.verou.me • 4m read

React App

Web site created using create-react-app

genomecolor.space

I Never Got a Car in Kazakhstan, or: On Corruption

I never got a car in Kazakhstan. I’m from Detroit.

erikas.online • 8m read

A Crisis of Trust in the Classroom

It was the day after returning from Thanksgiving break. I’d been stewing that whole time over yet another case of cheating, and I resolved to do something about it. “Folks,” I said, “I just can’t trust you anymore.”

insidehighered.com • 9m read

Why Agile Is Losing Steam

As I am sure you are well aware, companies have been purging themselves of what they now perceive to be niche roles not directly tied to the bottom line.

thelaterallens.substack.com • 8m read

6 CSS Snippets Every Front-End Developer Should Know In 2025

2025; I think every front-end developer should know how to enable page transitions, transition a <dialog>, popover, and <details>, animate light n' dark gradient text, type safe their CSS system, and add springy easing to animation. AI is not going to give you this CSS.

nerdy.dev • 11m read

CSS text-box-trim

Take back space from above and below your text content; achieve optical balance. From Chrome 133, text-box lets developers and designers tailor the space above and below text.

developer.chrome.com • 4m read

New capabilities for attr()

The ability to use attr() references in CSS is getting more powerful.

una.im • 6m read

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