Piccalilli Newsletter - Issue #12

Welcome

Hey, Pals 👋

This issue features flexible layouts, fancy textures, more rockets, surveys and handy accessibility tips.

If you’re enjoying reading this newsletter as much as I’m enjoying creating it, please share it with your pals. It’ll be really appreciated if you do.

Enjoy!

Every Layout

I’m really excited to share a project that Heydon and I are working on together. This should hopefully be a valuable resource for those of you who want to build more flexible layouts that work in harmony with the browser, rather than against it.

There’s a lot more to come and we’re both working really hard to make the project as useful as it can possibly be for you all.

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Fancy

Rooki.design

⚠️ Motion Warning ⚠️

It’s refreshing to see a bit of texture on the web, so this site made my eyes smile. Some of the colour contrast is very low, but I’m sure these folks will work it out.

It’ll be interesting to see how this project pans out.

Animation

Cassette Tape Loader

⚠️ Motion Warning ⚠️

Chris is one of my favourite animators and I don’t think I’ve shared any of his work yet, which is criminal.

The motion of this little cassette is smooth as butter. Lovely work.

Rocket Through Space

⚠️ Motion Warning ⚠️

It seemingly wouldn’t be an issue of this newsletter if it didn’t feature a rocket animation, recently, but I bloody love them!

This one is no exception. Very slick motion—especially the parallax stars—and a very appealing look and feel. Smashing work by Ryan.

Articles

A new (and easy) way to hide content accessibly

A very thorough article by Zell. Hiding content in an accessible manner is very important indeed and I’ve updated the utility class I have knocking around after reading this.

Resources

The State of CSS 2019

It’s here, The State Of men’s opinions CSS 2019!

As always, the demographic ratio is a shame, but it’s not a surprise, as only certain folks tend to fill in these surveys.

Still, there’s some beautiful data vis in here and as always, Sacha has designed a stunning site.

Sponsor

This issue’s sponsor: my Patreon

This issue is sponsored by my Patreon. If you want to sponsor this newsletter, go ahead and back the position: sticky tier.

I want to spend more time working on stuff that benefits the web community, but I also need to feed my family, so I've created a Patreon!

I’d really appreciate your support so I can help folks learn the web platform. The Patreon will hopefully reduce the amount of time I work on client projects and increase the amount of time I can spend working on projects like this one.

Any support will be appreciated and you can select as little as $1 per month!

Thank you

That’s all, folks

If you have any comments, feedback or submissions, please get in touch via Twitter or Email.

I’m also taking a short break from writing tutorials, so I’m looking to feature your work. If you have written a handy CSS utility, CSS trick or tutorial, you can submit a link over at https://submissions.piccalil.li ➡

Until the next issue, take it easy 🙂