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The technical and design blog of Stephanie Stimac covering product, web platform and design

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104 from 8 Jul 2019 to 24 Sep 2026
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monthly (14 in the last year)
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2026 10

  1. A Short Update on Designing for Foldable Devices
  2. Web Witch's Grimoire: Summer 2026
  3. Returning to Work After Maternity Leave: Day 5
  4. Returning to Work After Maternity Leave: Day 4
  5. Returning to Work After Maternity Leave: Day 3
  6. Returning to Work After Maternity Leave: Day 2
  7. Returning to Work After Maternity Leave: Day 1 as a New Mom and Remote Tech Worker
  8. Back from maternity leave
  9. And Suddenly Spring
  10. Six Weeks

2025 18

  1. 2025 Year in Review
  2. Going on maternity leave
  3. Can it ever be the way it was?
  4. Data and acquired consent
  5. ChatGPT Atlas isn't competing against other browsers
  6. A Social Media Detox for the Soul
  7. The Death of Curating, the Rise of Curation
  8. Web Witch's Grimoire: June 2025
  9. You look tired
  10. The :first-child side project
  11. Web Witch's Grimoire: April 2025
  12. Pre-Partner
  13. In which I discover my book has been scraped by Meta for its AI
  14. A Year at Igalia
  15. The hard truth about using AI in coding
  16. There are plenty of non-men in tech to speak at your conference
  17. 2024 Year in Review
  18. 2024 Book Roundup

2024 23

  1. You can pay for that: How web browser features get built
  2. Using the ':not()' pseudo-class to remove styles from ':last-child'
  3. Web Witch's Grimoire: November 2024
  4. Brief and practical tips for public speaking
  5. Web Witch's Grimoire: October 2024
  6. The `<details>` and `<summary>` elements are getting an upgrade
  7. Web Witch's Grimoire: September 2024
  8. Community events need more support
  9. Life Check №2
  10. The Inevitability of Change
  11. Breaking down basics: What's a web engine?
  12. Life Check №1
  13. Design for Developers is now available in German!
  14. Microsoft Edge is deprecating support for -ms-high-contrast and -ms-high-contrast-adjust
  15. Exploring the Immersive Web with Wolvic
  16. The Curious Case of the CSS Monochrome Media Query
  17. My first two weeks at Igalia
  18. Home Office Kit: Elgato Wave 3 Microphone
  19. Better form UX with the CSS property `field-sizing`
  20. Surviving layoffs in tech
  21. CSS Scrollbar styling is shipping in Chromium
  22. Naming things is hard
  23. 2023 Book Roundup

2023 23

  1. 2023 by the numbers
  2. CSS Media Query Support for Video <source> Elements
  3. CSS Media Query for Scripting Support
  4. Home
  5. Mental health resets in nature
  6. When to use CSS text-wrap: balance; vs text-wrap: pretty;
  7. In a world with so much content, SEO is king
  8. Imposter Syndrome Driven Design and a Bedfordshire Clanger
  9. Instagram killed creativity with the removal of recent hashtags
  10. On Gatekeeping Design and Democratizing Information
  11. Just Build It...
  12. What's next
  13. Building better websites with the Chromium DevTools Issues Panel
  14. Designing for Dual Screen and Foldable Devices With CSS
  15. Operating Within Gratitude
  16. Recomposed: Spring 1
  17. Serving less data with the `prefers-reduced-data` media query
  18. Crash and Burnout
  19. Using time-blocking to increase your productivity
  20. Greater styling control over type with CSS `initial-letter`
  21. A love note to CSS
  22. What recording 1 second every day over a year taught me
  23. An Intro to Trigonometric CSS Functions

2022 8

  1. 2022 Year In Review
  2. 2022 Book Roundup
  3. Productivity tips: the benefits of keeping track of tasks week by week
  4. Personal Sprint Retrospectives
  5. The Web Witch's Grimoire // Week of 10 June 2022
  6. On Depeche Mode and Andy Fletcher
  7. The Web Witch's Grimoire // Week of 13 May 2022
  8. The Web Witch's Grimoire // Week of 11 March 2022

2021 3

  1. A random man walks into my office and asks if I'm single...
  2. 20 Months
  3. The Web Witch's Grimoire // Week of 18 October 2021

2020 12

  1. Everything I wanted
  2. Web We Want Progress Update - November 2020
  3. What the heck is an Origin Trial?
  4. Web We Want Web Apps Survey Results
  5. Browser font rendering inconsistencies
  6. Musings on Creativity, COVID-19 and Normal
  7. The Web We Want Survey Results
  8. Why SmashingConf SF 2019 will always hold a special spot in my heart
  9. Inspiring high school students with HTML and CSS
  10. Pushing the future of the platform forward with The Web We Want
  11. 5 of my favorite hints in the webhint browser extension
  12. Setting intentions and goals for 2020

2019 7

  1. 2019 - Running Up That Hill
  2. Building my bullet journal layout with CSS Grid & Subgrid & Flexbox
  3. Beyond Tellerrand Berlin 2019
  4. Location, Privilege and Performant Websites
  5. I'm an introvert and I gave a conference talk
  6. First thoughts & musings on playing with CSS Subgrid
  7. Hello world...