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2024 Posts

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    Mia from behind,
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speaking to a conference audience
and gesturing to one side
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    Cascading Style Systems

    A workshop on resilient & maintainable CSS

    Past
    • – Online

      Smashing Workshops

    • – Freiburg, Germany

      Smashing Workshops

2023

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    Shop Talk Show Podcast
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    Cascade Layers, CSS Functions, and More

    I drop by the show to talk about CSS updates and news on container queries, rolling out cascade layers, !important things to remember, custom properties, exit animations, CSS functions, state queries, and more.

2021

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    Beyond CSS Variables

    Pushing past global design tokens

    Past
    • – Online

      An Event Apart Spring Summit

2020

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    When Variables Cascade

    An exploration of CSS custom properties

    Past
    • – Online

      SmashingConf Austin/NY

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    Using Custom Property “Stacks” to Tame the Cascade

    Since the inception of CSS in 1994, the cascade and inheritance have defined how we design on the web. Both are powerful features, but as authors we’ve had very little control over how they interact. Selector specificity and source order provide some minimal “layering” control, without a lot of nuance…

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2019

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    CSS Custom Properties In The Cascade

    a deep-dive into what’s possible

    Pushing past the “variable” metaphor, CSS Custom Properties can provide new ways to balance context and isolation in our patterns and components.

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  2. Miriam talking with Jen Simmons and others
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    Smashing CSS Follow-Up Q&A

    Questions about Dynamic CSS

    I had the pleasure of presenting both a talk and workshop at Smashing Conf in San Francisco this year. During the talk, people left questions in a collaborative doc, so I’m here to provide the answers!

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    Advanced CSS for Modern Applications

    A workshop with practical use-cases, tooling, and pitfalls

    Past
    • – San Francisco, CA

      Generate New York

    • – San Francisco, CA

      Smashing Conf

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2017

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    More CSS Charts, with Grid & Custom Properties

    Inspired by Robin Rendle, I demonstrate some of my early experiments combining CSS Grids and custom properties to create dynamic layouts and data-visualizations.