CSS

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Solving Product Galleries with Pure CSS: Carousel Without JavaScript

Maxim Mironjuk - May 07, 2026

Solving a product gallery with pure CSS sounds like a trick, but it is a resilient pattern: scroll snap containers, the checkbox hack principle and the :target pseudo class cover thumbnail navigation, carousel and full screen view without loading a single kilobyte of JavaScript.

CSS Web Performance

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CSS overflow: clip vs. hidden: Performance Differences and Layout Isolation

Maxim Mironjuk - May 06, 2026

overflow: clip is the more modern, often more performant alternative to overflow: hidden. The decisive difference is not in the visible result but in the invisible side effects: clip creates no stacking context and no new block formatting context, so it avoids unwanted z-index problems and enables more precise paint isolation for the browser renderer.

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CSS View Transitions API: Cross Page Transitions with view-transition-name

Maxim Mironjuk - May 02, 2026

The View Transitions API brings something that used to require SPAs with heavy frameworks and turns it into a native browser feature: seamless animations when navigating between pages, with view-transition-name for shared elements, CSS pseudo-elements for full style control, and cross-document support for multi page apps.

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CSS clamp() for Fluid Typography: Responsive Font Sizes Without Breakpoints

Maxim Mironjuk - April 29, 2026

With CSS clamp(), font sizes and spacing scale continuously between a minimum and a maximum, without a single media query. The math behind it takes about ten minutes to learn, and it replaces entire breakpoint systems with one expressive declaration.

CSS Design Patterns

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aspect-ratio in Media Layouts: Images, Video and Cards Without Distortion

Maxim Mironjuk - April 17, 2026

Before aspect-ratio arrived in CSS, every responsive video needed a wrapper div with the padding-top trick, and every image gallery fought jumping layouts while content loaded. The aspect-ratio property solves this natively, with a single line of CSS, combinable with object-fit and container queries for stable, undistorted media layouts.

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CSS Cascade Layers (@layer): Solving Specificity Problems

Maxim Mironjuk - April 15, 2026

CSS Cascade Layers separate the question of "which layer wins" from the question of "which selector is more specific." With @layer, developers can explicitly define the winning order of CSS layers: library CSS, resets, components, and utilities in a controlled hierarchy, with no need to escalate to !important.

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CSS Custom Properties for Theming: Dark Mode and @property

Maxim Mironjuk - April 12, 2026

Hardcoded color values that need updating in twenty places are a symptom of a missing theming system. CSS Custom Properties lay the foundation for maintainable design systems: a single source for every value, cascading overrides at the component level, and dark mode without a single line of JavaScript.

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container-type: size Queries in Detail: Using Size Based Container Queries Correctly

Maxim Mironjuk - April 03, 2026

container-type: size extends container queries into the block direction, but it enforces genuine size containment with noticeable side effects: without an explicit height, the container collapses to zero. Understanding when size is the right choice instead of inline-size avoids the most common layout bugs with this feature.

Tailwind CSS

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CSS-in-JS vs. Utility-First vs. Vanilla CSS: Architecture Decision

Maxim Mironjuk - March 29, 2026

Your CSS architecture choice shapes team productivity, bundle size, maintainability, and onboarding effort for years to come. CSS-in-JS, Utility-First CSS, and Vanilla CSS all solve the same underlying problem with fundamentally different approaches, and each one has specific contexts where it comes out ahead.

CSS Design Patterns

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Building a Design Tokens to CSS Pipeline

Maxim Mironjuk - March 25, 2026

Design tokens solve a synchronization problem that affects every cross platform product: colors, spacing and typography must be identical across web, iOS and Android, without three teams manually maintaining the same value three times over. An automated transformation pipeline turns a single JSON source into consistent CSS, Swift and Kotlin, without drift between platforms.