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2025
1. Announcing WordPress Export to Markdown v3
  March 21, 2025
2024
1. Making Orbit Animations with CSS Custom Properties
  September 16, 2024
2. Anchor Links and How to Make Them Awesome
  May 20, 2024
3. Playing with Infinity in CSS
  February 15, 2024
4. Acronym Frustration
  February 5, 2024
5. Nicer Text Wrapping with CSS text-wrap
  January 28, 2024
6. Writing Is Hard
  January 1, 2024
2022
1. Star Wars Scene Transition Effects in CSS
  June 1, 2022
2. Deep Dive into Text Wrapping and Word Breaking
  May 2, 2022
2021
1. Making a Heart Light with IFTTT and Netlify Functions
  December 1, 2021
2. Diving into the ::before and ::after Pseudo-Elements
  February 22, 2021
2020
1. Looking Back at 10 Years of Coder's Block
  December 16, 2020
2. What Can You Put in a CSS Variable?
  December 6, 2020
3. JavaScript Text to Speech and Its Many Quirks
  November 23, 2020
4. Coder's Block v7 with Eleventy
  November 12, 2020
5. The Surprising Things That CSS Can Animate
  June 8, 2020
6. Using CSS to Control Text Selection
  April 26, 2020
2019
1. External Links, New Tabs, and Accessibility
  May 21, 2019
2. Converting GitHub Gists to PrismJS
  March 11, 2019
3. Coder's Block v6 with GatsbyJS
  March 6, 2019
2018
1. Physics-Based Background Scroll Effects
  June 12, 2018
2. Say Hello to Houdini and the CSS Paint API
  March 7, 2018
2017
1. Disable Desktop Notification Requests
  November 4, 2017
2. JavaScript Physics with Matter.js
  October 24, 2017
3. Highlight Within Textarea v2
  June 11, 2017
4. 8 Terrible Things Web Developers Used to Do
  May 11, 2017
5. Creating an Autocomplete Plug-In for Atom
  April 16, 2017
6. Customizing GitHub Gists
  March 6, 2017
7. Coder's Block v5
  February 7, 2017
2016
1. How to Run .NET on Heroku
  October 9, 2016
2. Quick Recap of CSSConf 2016
  October 4, 2016
3. Sassy CSS Hexagons
  July 9, 2016
4. RevolutionConf 2016
  June 1, 2016
5. Motion Detection with JavaScript
  May 30, 2016
6. JavaScript String Replace Magic
  February 7, 2016
2015
1. Highlight Text Inside a Textarea
  September 28, 2015
2. Ember in Atlanta
  September 19, 2015
3. Checkbox Trickery with CSS
  June 16, 2015
4. Being Fluent in jQuery
  June 1, 2015
5. Iconifying Content
  May 19, 2015
6. Browser History
  April 3, 2015
7. Automatic Cache Buster
  March 22, 2015
8. JavaScript Function Methods: bind()
  February 2, 2015
9. JavaScript Function Methods: apply()
  January 26, 2015
10. JavaScript Function Methods: call()
  January 19, 2015
2014
1. Looking Back at 2014
  December 31, 2014
2. Crazy Meta CSS Hack
  November 17, 2014
3. Fun Times with CSS Counters
  November 7, 2014
4. JavaScript Strict Mode
  November 3, 2014
5. Web Fish Daily Retrospective
  October 31, 2014
6. Centering CodePen Screenshots
  October 26, 2014
7. Tracking Outbound Links with Google Analytics
  October 23, 2014
8. Building Web Fish Daily
  October 8, 2014
9. Twitter Cards with WordPress
  June 26, 2014
10. How to Add Twitter Cards
  June 21, 2014
11. Get Text Snippets with Regex
  June 13, 2014
12. Multi-Threaded JavaScript with Web Workers
  June 3, 2014
13. Whatever Happened to <b> and <i>?
  May 2, 2014
14. 20 Tiny Tricks for Web Developers
  April 14, 2014
15. The Smallest Valid HTML5 Page
  April 2, 2014
16. Creating Glow Effects with CSS
  March 28, 2014
17. Regex Storm Goes Open Source
  March 9, 2014
18. Mini-Previews for Links
  March 5, 2014
19. My Website Talks to Itself
  February 27, 2014
20. Font Shorthand Bug in IE10
  February 14, 2014
21. Perfectly Framed, Responsive Images
  February 6, 2014
22. Hi Again
  February 4, 2014
23. The Truth about JavaScript
  January 6, 2014
2013
1. The CodePen I Made out of Spite
  December 24, 2013
2. Fix File Drag and Drop on CodePen
  December 20, 2013
3. Crafting Maintainable Buttons
  December 7, 2013
4. Gradient Animation Trick
  December 2, 2013
5. Align 4 Retrospective: Writing a Multi-Threaded Game in JavaScript
  November 19, 2013
6. Inline Block, Working as Intended
  October 1, 2013
7. Git Stash is Your Friend
  September 19, 2013
8. Fix Jagged Fonts on Windows Chrome
  September 10, 2013
9. Show Hidden Files in OS X
  June 21, 2013
10. New Scenery
  May 12, 2013
11. Handy Little Script for Binding Hostnames
  February 10, 2013
2012
1. End of Year Update
  December 18, 2012
2. Takeaways from Breaking Development 2012
  April 22, 2012
3. Making Coder's Block Responsive
  April 14, 2012
4. Coder's Block v4
  March 30, 2012
5. Why I Left the Mobile Team
  February 27, 2012
6. Random Regex Tips
  February 10, 2012
7. Tables, Divs, and Table-Based Divs
  January 7, 2012
2011
1. Regex Storm Retrospective
  December 19, 2011
2. Looking Back
  November 16, 2011
3. An Android App
  September 5, 2011
4. I'm Still Here
  August 17, 2011
5. Side Project Mockup
  May 25, 2011
6. To Learn
  May 1, 2011
7. JavaScript Quirks
  April 10, 2011
8. I'm on DeviantArt
  March 31, 2011
9. Hey Look! Toast!
  March 26, 2011
10. SQL Query for Column Information
  March 22, 2011
11. I Suck at Illustrator
  March 16, 2011
12. Dual Monitors
  March 15, 2011
13. Finished Board Game AI
  March 9, 2011
14. Incoming
  March 5, 2011
15. Keeping Up with SEO
  February 15, 2011
16. JavaScript Events Gotcha
  February 5, 2011
17. Level 70 Epic Web Development Ninja
  January 22, 2011
18. Suckerfish Dropdown
  January 11, 2011
19. Box Selection in Visual Studio
  January 8, 2011
20. Adding a Twitter Feed to Your Website
  January 2, 2011
2010
1. Getting Query String Parameters Safely and Concisely in C#
  December 22, 2010
2. Customizing SyntaxHighlighter
  December 20, 2010
3. Using SyntaxHighlighter on Blogger
  December 19, 2010
4. Converting Timestamps
  December 17, 2010
5. Hi
  December 16, 2010