You have an element with a configurable background color, and you’d like to calculate whether the foreground text should be light or dark. Seems easy enough, especially knowing how mindful we ought...

In the [first part of this series](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2026/01/beyond-generative-rise-agentic-ai-user-centric-design/), we established the fundamental shift from generative to agentic ...

Welcome to 2026! After our holiday break, we started the year's first Second Breakfast livestream with a project that began during the early days of the pandemic: turning the Garden Now IoT projec...

[Speaking of charts](https://css-tricks.com/css-bar-charts-using-modern-functions/)… When was the last time you had to use a pie chart? If you are one of those people who have to give presentations...

New CSS features can sometimes make it easier and more efficient to code designs we already knew how to create. This efficiency could stem from reduced code or hacks, or improved readability due to...

[Creating your theme is the fun part.](https://css-tricks.com/no-hassle-visual-studio-code-theming-building-an-extension/) After you’re done, the next step is to publish your theme so you — and oth...

Years ago, when I read Sarah Drasner’s article on [creating a VS Code theme](https://css-tricks.com/creating-a-vs-code-theme/), I silently thought to myself, That’s a lot of work… I’m never going t...