Posted March 28th, 2024

✨ Revive Your Stylesheets – Native CSS Takes the Throne From SASS!

Hey everyone ✌️ Here’s a quick look at this week’s newsletter:

🎮 Experience Pinball UI
🤭 Are You in on These Classic Web Dev Jokes
🎨 Discover Button Styles Beyond Imagination

Enjoy this week’s edition 👋 – Adam at Unicorn Club.

Sync Figma to Webflow

With the Figma to Webflow App, you can now do more than just import your Figma components and variables — you can also sync changes from Figma into Webflow. That means you can now send your styling, layouts, colors, text, and images to Webflow and transfer them seamlessly.

Try the app →

🦄 This week’s best

Goodbye SASS 👋, welcome back native CSS

Sass has established itself as a powerful preprocessor installed locally, forming the backbone of my projects for over a decade.

I’m So Old: Web Edition

Every once in a while I will make an old programming reference to a much younger engineer and then realize they have no idea what I’m talking about.

CSS Button Styles You Might Not Know

We can use all sorts of fancy CSS to style a button. I prefer using Flexbox layout for example. In this blog post I share a few lesser-known CSS styles.

🧠 Fun Fact

SASS Origin Story – Created by Hampton Catlin and developed further with Natalie Weizenbaum in 2006, SASS was born from Hampton’s frustration with CSS’s limitations, revolutionizing how developers work with stylesheets today.

Pinball User Interface

Using software can be hard. All those form fields, menu items, interactive widgets and more… continually changing. So let’s call it Pinball UI.

Streaming HTML

I’m still not 100% sure when it’s an ideal solution and how best to take advantage of it. But knowing is half the battle sometimes, so let me get into some research and recent writings about it.

Building Websites and Building Websites Well

Ready for a short exercise? Write down what you associate with building a website. Then, write down what you think is needed to build a website well.