CSS-Tricks·4yThe 60 Hottest Front-end Tools of 2021 | CSS-Tricks
The Web Tools Weekly newsletter archives have been compiled into a list of the 60 most popular front-end tools of the past year. I’m sure there are at least one or two listed here that you can start using in your projects today. Some of these tools are super-practical, while others probably only made this list due to curiosity.
CSS-Tricks·4yCSS-Based Fingerprinting | CSS-Tricks
Fingerprinting is a term that refers to building up enough metadata about a user that you can essentially figure out who they are. Oliver Brotchie has documented an idea that allows for some degree of fingerprinting with CSS alone. The generated CSS to do it is massive (here's the Sass to generate it), but apparently it’s heavily reduced once we can use custom properties in URLs.
CSS-Tricks·4yThank You (2021 Edition) | CSS-Tricks
The site saw 88m pageviews this year down 6% from the 93m last year. A ~3% drop in organic search traffic was largely responsible for the dip. Unique Visitors are up year over year to 26.3m from 25.8m, suggesting more different people came to the site this year.