2026 – Page 3 – Painter

CSS

The four CSS properties that trigger layout

Animate the wrong property and every frame re-measures the page. Animate the right one and the compositor handles it alone.

chrisMay 27, 20261 min read

CSS

Year one is components. Year two is everything the components could not predict, which is where systems die.

chrisMay 15, 20261 min read

Width is time and depth is the call stack. Once those two facts land, most of a trace reads itself.

chrisMay 4, 20261 min read

CSS

One property that tells the browser to skip work for anything off screen. The numbers are good, and the caveats are real.

chrisMay 3, 20261 min read

CSS

If dark mode doubled your CSS, the problem was never dark mode. It was that your colours were never tokens.

chrisApril 21, 20261 min read

FID measured the first interaction. INP measures the worst one, and that is a completely different bar to clear.

chrisApril 9, 20261 min read

AVIF is smaller, slower to encode, and not always the right answer. Here is where each format earns its place.

chrisMarch 28, 20261 min read

List every tag, name its owner, and delete the two nobody can account for. That is the whole method.

chrisMarch 16, 20261 min read