Adam Argyle

@argyleink@front-end.social
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Teachin, designin, and buildin on the web all day.

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Photos of @argyleink@front-end.social giving a talk on the first day of #CSSDay (5 June 2025).
📷 OM-3 & 75 mm ƒ1.8

Recreating the Nintendo Switch Homescreen scroll UX

- 90% done with CSS
- a li'l JS for sounds, vibrations n' taps

https://nerdy.dev/nintendo-switch-homescreen-css-recreation

It's not a challenge to design for reduced transparency, it's an opportunity.

https://nerdy.dev/prefers-reduced-transparency

- adaptive frosted glass
- adaptive captions

I'm still sad that the native CSS color functions do not work like in preprocessors in certain aspects, but with custom functions, we will be finally free

@function --rgba(--c <color>, --a: 1) {
result: rgb(from var(--c) r g b / var(--a));
}

Fathers Day 2025 · June 15, 2025

Website for Adam Argyle: Teacher, Speaker, CSSWG member, and creator of Open Props and VisBug.

nerdy.dev

🎙️ New Episode of Igalia Chats: CSS Proposals and Debates

@bkardell and @Meyerweb discuss some interesting CSS topics that have caught their eye of late...

https://www.igalia.com/chats/interesting-css-2025

No job?
Find a friend with a boat.

https://nerdy.dev/mt-rainier-boat-banjo

Fathers Day 2025 · June 15, 2025

Website for Adam Argyle: Teacher, Speaker, CSSWG member, and creator of Open Props and VisBug.

nerdy.dev

https://codepen.io/kizu/pen/qEddYOO

code {
--captured-length: 100cqi;
--captured-length2: 20ch;
--ratio: tan(atan2(
var(--captured-length),
var(--captured-length2)
));
tab-size: round(up, var(--ratio), 2);
}

tab-size

...

```css
textarea {
scrollbar-width: thin;
}
```
thoughts?

3 Unintuitive #CSS Layout “Solutions”

```
min-width: 0?
flex-shrink: 0?
repeat(auto-fill, minmax(min(10rem, 100%), 1fr))
```

wat?
https://nerdy.dev/3-unintuitive-layout-solutions

Fathers Day 2025 · June 15, 2025

Website for Adam Argyle: Teacher, Speaker, CSSWG member, and creator of Open Props and VisBug.

nerdy.dev