Out-of-your-face AIyesterday

A very interesting aspect of the AI smashing its way into every software product known to man, is how it’s integrated. What does it look like? What does it do? Are we allowed to control it? UX patterns are evolving around this. In coding tools, I’ve felt the bar being turned up on “anticipate what […]

CSS Spotlight Effect7 days ago

We can pass the mouse position from JavaScript to CSS and use it to make unusual and playful effects.

P3 in Color Inputs10 days ago

I just complained that color inputs couldn’t deal in P3 colors. Looks like Safari is the first-mover on supporting that, as well as alpha: I was able to make a quick demo and see it on iOS: Under the Sliders tab, it’s still just R G & B, but it seems to me you can […]

Cloudflare AutoRAG12 days ago

I enjoyed this video from Kristian Freeman from Cloudflare on building something quickly with their AutoRAG feature. RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), as I understand it, means that you’re going to ask an AI model a question, but you want that answer informed by a whole corpus of documents. As in, ask the question “how do I […]

contrast-color() ships in Safari Technology Preview18 days ago

When I first looked at the new color contract function in CSS, the words were reversed, so that’s notable. It’s contrast-color() now, and starting it’s life in Safari Technology Preview. Now it only takes one argument, a color, and you get back either black or white (rather than providing your own color choices). Once this […]