r/Frontend • • 17h ago

New CSS Features just don’t hit the same these days

162 Upvotes

Seeing new css features get implemented, particularly ones that have been on my “wishlist” for years, is such a complicated feeling with how much Claude has invaded day to day work.

I was just reading about linked parameters and responsive iframes, thinking about potential projects I could have used them on, trying to store use cases somewhere deep in my brain for later use.

And suddenly I wondered if I will ever end up actually writing any of these new features myself. Or if I’ll have a chance to use them in an unexpected way and get a moment of feeling smart and clever. Or if I’ll ever have to think about their existence at all.

It’s just a weird new feeling of ennui I didn’t see coming and thought I’d yell into the void of Reddit on a Friday night.


r/Frontend • • 7h ago

DevTools pretty print can change what your JavaScript does. As a proof of concept, Tetris file that becomes Snake

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21 Upvotes

A formatter, minifier or deobfuscator can be made to turn one script into another.

You can go try out all 186 techniques with this script: https://divergence.trustsig.eu/

Or try the Tetris-Snak demo here: https://divergence-game.trustsig.eu/

Techical breakdown: https://trustsig.eu/blog/javascript-divergence/