If you're looking to up your CSS layout game, Ahmad is definitely the person to go to, and the layout maestro looks great. Get it before tomorrow!

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After a year of building, The Layout Maestro is officially live! 🎹🥳 An interactive CSS course that teaches you how to think in CSS layouts. 70+ lessons, 7 layouts, 150+ interactive demos! Ready to level up your layout skills? Enroll now👇: thelayoutmaestro.com

Excited to get back to writing on my blog. Lots of interesting stuff to share! It's been a while*.

Everything Ahmad creates is top-notch and well worth your time. I didn't take this course (yet), but I'm sure you'll get much more than you paid for. Enroll today 😉

My new CSS course is out 🥳, The Layout Maestro. It's all about teaching you how to think and decide what CSS to use. Here is a peek from inside the content.

I bought this course without hesitation. At first view it is nicely crafted as I expected from Ahmad. I am looking forward reading in this course. Maybe I will learn a thing or two. As always his perspective is interesting to read.

Do you - think about layouts for webpages or websites? - build or admire webpages or websites? - want to create better layouts for the www? - enjoy learning? Consider enrolling in the Layout Maestro course! Excellent teacher, writing, course structure (this matters!), source code, and demos!

Absolute bargain! Everything Ahmad touches is gold, so you know this is gonna be awesome.

After a year of building, The Layout Maestro is officially live! 🎹🥳 An interactive CSS course that teaches you how to think in CSS layouts. 70+ lessons, 7 layouts, 150+ interactive demos! Ready to level up your layout skills? Enroll now👇: thelayoutmaestro.com

You know what I’m talking about. bell.bz/wait-it-out/

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First morning cup of coffee after Ramadan hits different! 😍

Less than a week to launch The Layout Maestro course. I've received some great feedback from the beta testers so far! This thing is coming to life! And by the way, newsletter subscribers will get an extra launch discount on top of everything else. Sign up here: layoutmaestro.ishadeed.com

After finally understanding @css-only.dev's demo for calculating the shortest paths between points, I was able to create this little spotlight effect. Pretty happy with the result! codepen.io/enbee81/deta...

A few days ago I wanted to purchase a domain for my CSS layout course, but it was taken, so I purchased another one. Today I got an email from the registrar asking me to update my info for that taken domain. Turns out I had already purchased it and completely forgot 😂

Couple of reasons to put a width (and height!) on images.

Love that "inline-size" chip in Chrome Devtools. Much better than showing "Container" only.

Seriously, learn grid and you will find that it's worth your time 😄

Two days ago, I sent a newsletter announcing the release date of my CSS course and asked for beta testers. The response was beyond anything I expected. I spent ~3 hours reading every email and making some really tough decisions on who to select. Grateful for everyone who volunteered. 🙏

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Having so much fun fine-tuning my CSS layout course landing page! 🤩

Now that's what I call a select demo.

The Layout Maestro course is shaping its final state, and I have a release date in mind! Details soon. 🤩 I'm really looking forward to this. The amount of work is something I haven't done before. For example, I spent 2 hours today on refining one of the flexbox demos to make it even clearer 👌

Alma (5 years) asked to skip kindergarten today, and we said yes. During the day, she made chocolate bars with her mom and told her: "This is what I call عطلة." In Arabic, عطلة (utla) means a holiday or a day off. She literally mixed English and Arabic because she was so excited! 😅

My CSS Day talk “Smart Layouts” is live on Youtube 😄

🎉 Looking for new work. 15 years front-end dev + Design Systems specialist. I help folks build, maintain & transform design systems. I'm also available for focused projects, front-end builds, codebase modernisation. Short to long term. Let's chat - [email protected] reposts appreciated <3

"No hype, no AI slop, just high quality, pragmatic education" 100% this.

A new masterpiece by the one and only, @joshwcomeau.com 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

It’s so common to see “mobile” views on larger viewports. Ahmad explains the problem well here, with some nice solutions, but I’ve gotta say you don’t experience this often (or at all) with configurable, composable layouts. ishadeed.com/article/too-...

CSS Weekly #634 😾 Solve annoying problems using CSS 📏 Connect elements using Anchor Positioning 🎥 Create performance-optimized video embeds 🔥 And more Featuring @kevinpowell.co, @ishadeed.com, @stfbauer.bsky.social, @aarontgrogg.com, @aardrian.bsky.social, @alvaromontoro.com. 🙏 cssw.io/issue-634

I grepped my upcoming CSS course to count how my interactive demos are there and the total is 69 unique components and 238 variations. Adding on that, there are 53+ demos in the building module. Total is 360! 🤯 I think that gives an idea about the level of effort. Excited!

📝 New CSS Article! If you want to understand the magic behind that elastic effect, check my latest article @frontendmasters.com frontendmasters.com/blog/how-to-... Not really useful effect, but you might learn more about new CSS features.

Polypane 28 is here! This first release of 2026 comes with plenty of improvements to Projects, the new Environments feature prevents you from confusing production for localhost, the Elements panel is faster and more powerful than ever, and it now runs on Chromium 146. polypane.app/blog/polypan...

Recently, I’ve been feeling constant fatigue. I went to the lab, and the doctor diagnosed a severe Vitamin D deficiency. I'm starting my supplements today and can’t wait to feel the difference in 2-3 weeks! 🙌

Announcing The CSS Selection! 📰 www.projectwallace.com/the-css-sele... 📚 100,000 websites ⏱️ 100+ metrics 🔖 7 chapters The biggest deep-dive ever into real-world use of CSS across the globe. Dive in and find out some hidden gems. Also, see how much of 'the new CSS' is actually used!

❌ Drawing with CSS ✅ Drawing with a milk pitcher

100% yes! And can I also say that Josh work is *very* inspiring? He raised the bar so much for technical blog posts. 💜

YES!! Style queries are coming to Firefox! 😍😍 I felt that as in the past few days I got over 6 email notifications about the style queries issue on Bugzilla (I didn't mind them at all, of course).

Just read “The Too Early Breakpoint” by @ishadeed.com — and once again, super inspiring to read. Such a clear way of explaining a subtle responsive design problem, with practical takeaways you can apply immediately. Always a pleasure to read your posts 👏🙏 ishadeed.com/article/too-...

That moment when I removed a section titled "Real world example" from one of my course modules because the previous explanations are actually real world examples and I'm over-explaining the topic. Fun times :D

✍️ I wrote a short opinion piece about a pattern I keep seeing lately: switching to the smallest responsive layout too early. I call it The Too-Early Breakpoint. 🔗 ishadeed.com/article/too-...

✍️ I wrote a short opinion piece about a pattern I keep seeing lately: switching to the smallest responsive layout too early. I call it The Too-Early Breakpoint. 🔗 ishadeed.com/article/too-...

Glad that I mentioned this in the Flexbox module of my course 🤩 Now I just need to update the note.

Morning everyone! Happy day 🙌

I wrote a new article: “Solving Shrinkwrap: New Experimental Technique” https://kizu.dev/shrinkwrap-solution/ In this article, I present my new technique for solving a #CSS problem that was deemed impossible — true shrinkwrapping of an element with […] [Original post on front-end.social]

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I have been a bit quite lately on my blog but that was on purpose. I took a break and now my mind is ready to write again! I started drafting a new CSS article today 🥳

I had heard that parcel delivery in Germany is tricky. Today I experienced it myself. The delivery driver was very close to the address, but somehow, the status has changed to "2nd delivery attempt". I asked my sister if she got a call or email, but nothing. Now we will wait till Monday :D

An example of AI slop in the context of CSS: ```<div class="absolute bottom-0 left-0 right-0 h-[1px] bg-[#eee7dd]"></div>``` This div adds a bottom border in CSS, which can be replaced by, you guessed it, a border-bottom property.