🎨 CSS Just Got Wild: Conic Gradients & attr() Tricks You’ll Actually Use

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Hello Developers!

This issue is packed with clever CSS tricks, JavaScript insights, and bold takes on where AI is heading—click around, learn something cool, and get inspired to build smarter.

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🎨 CSS Bursts with Conic Gradients - make stripes with CSS gradients pretty easily. It’s that classic thing where you don’t fade a color from one to another, you just switch colors by having two colors share the same “color stop”.

🔥 You Can Now Use attr() Like a Variable in CSS?! - this highly-requested feature gives you ability to supercharge attributes and use them in CSS beyond simple strings! You can reference colors, numbers, percentages, named values as custom identifiers, and more. Here are some more examples that explore modern attr() in CSS and use it to define the type of value you want to use - First Look at The Modern attr()

🧪 CSS Progress Bars Without JS? This attr() Trick Is Genius - customize a progress element based on the progression. A single-element implementation without JavaSript.

🧵 The Chaos of Circular Dependencies… Untangled - Breaking Down Circular Dependencies in JavaScript: A Hands-On Guide That Finally Make Sense (Kinda).

👶 Young Devs Are Owning Open-Source AI—Here’s What That Means - Open-source AI: Are younger developers leading the way? - A generational divide: experience and open-source AI adoption.

💡 The Web Share & Clipboard APIs Are Underrated Power Tools - Simplify sharing with built-in APIs and progressive enhancement - two really useful web platform tools available for use that have fantastic browser support: the Web Share API and the Clipboard API.

📆 Format Dates Like a Human (in Vanilla JS) - No more libraries just to get “April 7, 2025.”

🎙️ 🚀 AI Bubble or Revolution? Two CEOs Spill the Future - interview with HumanX CEO Stefan Weitz and Crunchbase CEO Jager McConnell to talk about where the money is in the AI space, where most enterprise AI strategies fall short, how companies can build business models when AI tech is evolving so quickly, and why this is AI’s microservices moment.

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