A client kept flagging link underlines that ran a couple of pixels past the letters. The CSS property text-decoration-inset clips them without pseudo-element hacks, and it animates on hover. Firefox only for now.
A Meet the Team row of overlapping avatars broke every time the client added a person. Here is the CSS that works out the negative margin itself, using sibling-count() and container query units.
A JavaScript library added for smooth page transitions hijacked every internal link on a WooCommerce store. Pulling it out and using View Transitions, namespaced classes and accessibility tokens fixed more than it broke.
A WooCommerce site was choking on jQuery and Intersection Observers just to run a hover gallery and a filter menu. CSS Wrapped 2025 covers the native features that made most of that script unnecessary.
I once wrote 60 lines of ResizeObserver JavaScript so one hero headline would fill its container. Chrome Canary is prototyping text-grow and text-shrink, which do the same job in CSS, with one accessibility catch.
We shipped a Quick Reorder button for a WooCommerce client and the conversion rate never moved. The problem was the metric, not the button. TARS breaks feature success into target audience, adoption, retention and satisfaction.
A client wanted a Pinterest-style WooCommerce gallery, which used to mean Masonry.js or fragile grid math. The CSS Working Group settled on display: grid-lanes instead, and it is still rolling out behind flags.
A 30,000-line stylesheet taught me that BEM cannot outrun global scope. Web components and the Shadow DOM can, and the idea goes back to a 1998 proposal for HTML components.
My niece walked into the office and asked what I was typing. Explaining HTML as bricks and CSS as paint was harder than I expected, and it showed me where I had gotten sloppy in my own work.
A WooCommerce homepage carousel was wrecking Core Web Vitals. Dropping the JS slider for CSS animation-timeline and view() cut the script weight and pulled the LCP score back into the green.