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Theoleff

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About Theoleff

Hi there! My name is Theo Soti, a designer and front-end developer passionate about CSS and crafting beautiful, user-friendly interfaces. I wrote the book "You don't need JavaScript" to teach you modern CSS:

https://theosoti.com/you-dont-need-js

I also have a blog here: https://theosoti.com

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    Here's my blog https://theosoti.com/ where I share mainly about CSS. They are a mix of long articles and some short ones to talk about stuff I'm currently learning.

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    Happy New Year everyone. 2025 was a big year for me. I spent a lot of time writing and sharing technical content, mostly about modern CSS. I didn’t expect much from it at first, bu…

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    Thank you, it means a lot! I originally started writing it because I was tired of books becoming obsolete every two years while the underlying problems stayed the same.

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    Thanks for sharing that! It’s a super common story. Frontend patterns moved fast (especially for the last 3 years), and not always in a way that encouraged checking what the browse…

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    Yup, at this point it feels more like habit than necessity. People learned to build things like dropdowns in JavaScript years ago, so they keep doing it that way. A lot of devs sim…

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    The interesting part here isn’t “no JavaScript”, it’s that HTML already covers more use cases than people remember (forms, dialogs, validation, navigation). I ran into this repeate…

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    I wrote a book about modern HTML & CSS to create website with as little javascript as possible. I made almost 5k$ the first month, now I do 300-500$/month with it. Here’s the link:…

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    Hi HN, Over the past few months, I’ve been exploring how far modern CSS can go on its own. The result is an ebook called "You Don’t Need JavaScript". It’s a collection of UI compon…

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    Good to know, thank you!

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    Thanks for the link, not sure why it's not clickable in my post.

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    Ask HN: What if you didn't need JavaScript?

    Hello, I’ve been working on a side project: a curated collection of modern, CSS-only techniques for building interactive UI components (like toggles, modals, dark mode…) without re…

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    Hi everyone, I’m thrilled to share my new blog post on my frontend development blog! This time, I’ve taken a deep dive into scroll-driven animations in CSS which are way better tha…

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    Show HN: Create a Darkmode with Minimal JavaScript

    Hello everyone, I’m excited to share a new project I’ve been working on: I’m building a blog all about frontend development, with a big focus on CSS. The goal? Write articles that …