Piccalilli Newsletter - Issue #18

Welcome

Waayahay! 👋

It is HOT in the U.K. at the moment, so this week it’s all about fun CodePens and art CodePens!

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!

You can now buy Every Layout!

It’s finally ready!!! 🚀

Heydon and I have been working our butts off getting all the final details ready so you can purchase Every Layout.

We’ve got a special code for Piccalilli subscribers where you can get 20% off. Use the code PICCALILLI_PAL at the checkout to get everything for $80 instead of $100.

Featured Article

Flexible data tables with CSS Grid

A thoroughly interesting read from Adam. There’s lots of grid gold in here in a context where you wouldn’t usually expect it to be handy.

Fancy

Material Ringing Button

⚠️ Motion warning ⚠️

This is nice, by Una. I love these subtle little realistic touches.

Art

Pure CSS Portrait

Another stunning piece by Ben. They really are incredibly talented at making CSS art.

Houdini

Subatomic Houdini

I haven’t featured a Houdini link for ages. Luckily, Ruth has our backs.

This is a slick, generative art-based demo and you should definitely look at the source code. Magic stuff.

Fun

Animated sun

⚠️ Motion warning and best viewed in Chromium ⚠️

This is great, by Michelle. It’s very apt as we melt in a heatwave, here in the U.K.

Morphing Blogs with `border-radius`

⚠️ Motion warning ⚠️

This is a fun one by Chris. I love that he put controls on there too, so we can play around with them.

Sponsor

This week’s sponsor is Clarity

I love Clarity and I’m so happy that they wanted to sponsor this issue. Their support means a heck of a lot.

Clarity is a design systems community conference.

They elevate our skills through multi-faceted inclusion, empathy, technology, creativity, and collaboration.

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 🙂