Weird, huh? You wouldn't expect something like rotate(0), which is equivalent to none, to completely change how the animation works, but this is happening entirely as designed in the CSS spec. Let's dig into why.

Earlier this week, I explored a solution to center an image and caption by making the figure take on the width of the image even when the caption was longer than the image. I wanted the caption to wrap if needed. I asked several other CSS wizards to weigh in.

I set out to announce two components I wrote for displaying Bluesky likes and ended up ranting about the pain of building accessible, localizable web components in 2025. The components are still here, though — lucky you?

On May 20, 2025, the HTML specification was updated to escape < and > in attributes, helping prevent XSS vulnerabilities. This post details the impact of the HTML attribute escaping change on web developers and potential breakages.

Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) is an inevitability when working on web accessibility. That said, it’s everyone’s first time learning about ARIA at some point.