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Hi, I’m Lea and I love making things. Ι design new web technologies, and tools used by millions of developers. As a W3C TAG member, I review web technology proposals to ensure they benefit the Web. I’ve done HCI research at MIT on democratizing web development, earning me a PhD. I speak, teach, and write, including a bestselling book with O’Reilly, dubbed “Best CSS book”. I often blog about all this – and more!

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  1. Web Components are not Framework Components — and That’s Okay 6 min 0 comments
  2. Making the Web more Awesome — for everyone 3 min 0 comments
  3. Forget “show, don’t tell”. Engage, don’t show! 4 min 0 comments
  4. Inline conditionals in CSS, now? 20 min 0 comments
  5. Inline conditionals in CSS? 6 min 0 comments
  6. On compliance vs readability: Generating text colors with CSS 18 min 0 comments
  7. Eigensolutions: composability as the antidote to overfit 14 min 0 comments
  8. Minimalist Affordances: Making the right tradeoffs 6 min 0 comments
  9. State of HTML 2023 now open! 4 min 0 comments
  10. Numbers or Brackets for numeric questions? 7 min 0 comments
  11. Help Design the Inaugural State of HTML Survey! 4 min 0 comments
  12. Going Lean 8 min 0 comments
  13. Rethinking Categorization 4 min 0 comments
  14. 11ty: Index ALL the things! 4 min 0 comments
  15. Migrating Disqus from WP to 11ty 4 min 0 comments
  16. JS private class fields considered harmful 2 min 0 comments
  17. Contrast Ratio has a new home — and this is great news! 1 min 0 comments
  18. Position Statement for the 2022 W3C TAG Election 3 min 0 comments
  19. State of CSS 2022 now open! 2 min 0 comments
  20. On ratings and meters 2 min 0 comments
  21. Help design the State of CSS Survey 2022! 2 min 0 comments
  22. What is the best way to mark up an exclusive button group? 2 min 0 comments
  23. Introducing Rety: live coding, without the stress 3 min 0 comments
  24. Releasing Color.js: A library that takes color seriously 2 min 0 comments
  25. On Yak Shaving and <md-block>, a new HTML element for Markdown 2 min 0 comments
  26. Custom properties with defaults: 3+1 strategies 4 min 0 comments
  27. Inherit ancestor font-size, for fun and profit 6 min 0 comments
  28. Is the current tab active? 4 min 0 comments
  29. 82% of developers get this 3 line CSS quiz wrong 2 min 0 comments
  30. Dark mode in 5 minutes, with inverted lightness variables 6 min 0 comments

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