Tailwind Weekly #190: Cursor Styling, Text Balancing, and Dev-Friendly Knowledge Tools for Easter 🐰

Hello folks!

No major stuff to report, so we’ll keep it short and sweet! And for those that celebrate it, happy easter 🙌 !

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📚 Learning

Next Level CSS Styling for Cursors

This is a deep dive into the fascinating world of custom cursors, exploring how JavaScript can improve them beyond basic CSS styling. You'll learn how to create dynamic, interactive cursors by using elements that follow your mouse movements, enabling complex animations and transitions that add flair to your website. The article also covers important considerations like accessibility and ensuring your cursor enhancements don't interfere with touchscreens or users with reduced-motion preferences.

Balancing Text In CSS

This article revisits the topic of text-wrap in CSS, specifically focusing on the text-wrap: balance property. It dives into the challenges of text wrapping on web pages compared to design tools like Figma, where designers manually adjust text for balance. In the browser, traditional methods like using <br> and max-width have limitations, but text-wrap: balance offers a native solution by evenly distributing text across lines for a cleaner look. text-wrap: pretty is also introduced, which is more forgiving and useful for preventing orphan words.

💅 Showcase

Honkist

Honkist is an excellent platform built for web developers like us who want to level up in the AI era. It serves up condensed, AI-powered insights from top non-fiction books that you can consume during your busy day. You can use the AI chat feature to dig deeper into complex concepts, helping you not just understand key ideas but actually apply them to your projects and career growth.

🎁 Resource

Tailwind Resume

This is a very interesting resume builder I found recently. It’s built on Tailwind CSS (so you know it’s fast and clean), and it lets you tweak the layout and styles to match your vibe, so no complicated design tools or head-scratching over spacing. You get full control over customization, but it’s super intuitive. The live preview is very good as well: just make your edits and see updates instantly. Whether you need a fresh CV for your dream gig or want to give your old resume a facelift, this builder keeps things simple and efficient, and makes sure your resume looks polished every time.

👌 Cool Stuff

Knowledge Management for Beginners – Build a dev-friendly system to capture, organize, and use knowledge to improve your career.

Lynx – Build once, deploy anywhere with native rendering for web, Android, and iOS using your existing CSS and React skills.

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