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New HTML Element: <search>

HTML is a living language in constant evolution. The latest addition has been a new semantic element for search operations

3 min readApr 10, 2023

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A search box with an arrow pointing to the HTML code: <search> <form method=”get” action=”/search”> … </form> </search>

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How to kill morale and get rid of your most valuable developers

A cry for help from employees. A how-to guide for corporate.

6 min readMay 31, 2022

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How to kill morale and get rid of your most valuable developers

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Dungeon

comiCSS cartoon for April 22, 2024

2 min readApr 22, 2024

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cartoon with three men hang chained in a dungeon. Two look sad, one looks happy. One of the sad ones says ‘he used to be a web developer. he says this is 1,000 times better’

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Evolution

comiCSS cartoon for April 19, 2024

1 min readApr 22, 2024

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Cartoon titled ‘Evolution’ with drawings of a 5.25 floppy disk, a CD-ROM, an USB drive, an SD card, and a button with the word ‘Upload’ and an arrow pointing up into a cloud.

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Not You

comiCSS cartoon for April 12, 2024

1 min readApr 22, 2024

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Kids Fighting

comiCSS cartoon for April 8, 2024

1 min readApr 22, 2024

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Comic with 5 panels showing two kids who start to fight yelling at each other ‘display:grid’ and ‘display:flex’. Their angry mother stops them by saying ‘animation: none !important’, and the separates them by saying ‘justify-content: space-between !important’

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Spring Break

comiCSS cartoon for March 29, 2024

1 min readApr 22, 2024

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a big cartoon with plenty of white space, an undefined character pops up moving around and asking several times ‘comiCSS?’. Finally it stops in front of a beach chair where a person is drinking. The character asks ‘comiCSS?!’ and the person replies ‘spring breaCSS’

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Appliance

comiCSS cartoon for March 23, 2024

1 min readApr 22, 2024

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Appliance: cartoon of a broken blender leaking its content. It is next to some CSS code: .appliance { color: lightsteelblue; counter-set: top; :has(.warranty) { break-before:avoid; break-after: always; }}

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Layers

comiCSS cartoon for March 18, 2024

1 min readApr 22, 2024

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Cartoon showing CSS code with many nested at-layers. Off-panel someone complains that it may be cold but the code doesn’t need so many layers

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Reviewing PRs

comiCSS cartoon for March 11, 2024

1 min readApr 22, 2024

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Cartoon with two panels title Web developers reviewing JS and ‘CSS’ (CSS is quoted). The first panel shows an angry-looking person saying ‘Wow!! Four parameters in a function call??!! That’s way too many!!! PR rejected!’. The second panel shows the same person reading a really long list of Tailwind class names and saying ‘That CSS class looks stylish! Approved!’

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Alvaro Montoro

Alvaro Montoro

Full-Stack Software Engineer, Mobile Developer, Web technologies enthusiast. CSS aficionado. Twitter: @alvaro_montoro

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