Talk.CSS max-content Edition
who it's for
frontend developers, web designers, design systems engineers, ui engineers, ux designers, accessibility specialists, front-end architects
topics
CSS custom properties; system-ui font stacks; emoji unicode-range handling; responsive CSS components; relative units for scaling; BEM and specificity management; background-clip text effects; mix-blend-mode layering; clip-path shapes; CSS Grid and flexbox; feature queries progressive enhancement; font-variation-settings animation
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome and Intro | Chris Lienert | 09m |
A rapid, informal opening that explains this is a DIY half conference packed into three hours, how the meetup grew from a two‑hour setup into a recurring… | ||
| Designing Inspired Style Guides | Andy Clarke | 42m |
Argues that most style guides are functional but ugly and demonstrates concrete fixes: six inspired guide templates built with semantic HTML, CSS custom… | ||
| Font stacks with CSS variables | Sebastiaan Deckers | 12m |
A tiny CSS ponyfill implements the new generic family system-ui by declaring a root variable like --system-ui and replacing it with an explicit local font… | ||
| Building responsive CSS components | Zell Liew | 29m |
Shows how to make components actually scale: use relative units (em/rem) to scale to font size and viewport units (vw/vh) for fluid sizing, use rem for… | ||
| Creative Text Effects with CSS | Mandy Kerr | 41m |
Shows concrete recipes to make editable, selectable, searchable text effects using pure CSS: layer text via data- attributes and ::before/::after instead of… | ||
| Love the web for what it is | Chen Hui Jing | 21m |
Argues for ceding pixel-level control to browsers and designing for fluidity rather than print parity, claiming this reduces code and maintenance. Recommends… | ||
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