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🎮 Design Lessons From Squid Game + Why Devs Still Love Sublime in 2025

February 5, 2025

Hey 👋

This week, we’re diving into a mix of topics—from Squid Game's stunning use of minimalism and contrast in design, to Nokia’s design archive it's a treasure chest of forgotten brilliance (seriously, who knew?).

On the dev side, there’s a HTML trick, plus a controversial case for sticking with Sublime Text in 2025.

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⚡️ Design + Engineering

Dissolving the line between design and engineering

A deep dive into what it looks like for designers to approach their work with an engineering mindset.

🧑‍💻 Dev

Only One details Open At a Time

A very simple HTML element that I thought I new everything about hid a very useful feature — [name] attribute that enables to have only one disclosure box open at a time

Why I still like Sublime Text in 2025

Still get people asking me why I use Sublime Text in 2025 given there are soooo many other great editors out there.

🎨 Design

Minimalism and Contrast - Squid Game’s Visual Design Principles

Squid Game, the cultural phenomenon that took the world by storm, was more than just an intense story; it was also a stunning visual experience.

Nokia Design Archive - 2 Decades of Design

Exploring unseen concepts of design and opportunities of design-driven transformation and change

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📋 CSS

Here’s Why Your Anchor Positioning Isn’t Working

It is frustrating to track down why an anchor isn’t being found. I’ve found a simple way that should work in most cases.

Transitioning Top-Layer Entries And The Display Property In CSS

We are getting spoiled with so many new features involving animations with CSS, from scroll-driven animations to view transitions, and plenty of things in between.

Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS

That should be corrected if anyone invents a time machine. :P

🏎️ Performance

Prefetching subresources with Signed Exchanges

How to make your website load instantly for Google-referred users (part 2 of 8). Over the coming weeks we'll be featuring each part of Pawełs series.

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