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  2. June 2025 release notes

    'Only' 20 releases on the website this month but also lots of releases outside in our open source projects.

  3. April + May 2025 release notes

    Close your eyes! Or not. We have a light theme now. And no theme at all. And some other new stuff that you will probably like.

  4. March 2025 release notes

    35 releases but hardly anything that you will notice. Read on to learn why that is a good thing.

  6. January 2025 release notes

    It has been quite the month with 40+ releases. Many changes happened in the design tokens page. Read about the highlights here.

  7. 2023 in review

    This was a year full of new releases and a bunch of exposure in public places. Let's look at the numbers and see how much time you've spent here. We're also looking at the plans for next year because it's going to be pretty special.

  9. A new online CSS minifier

    We all need that quick online CSS minifier every once in a while, so new we have our own.

  10. Wallace in the news

    Excitement all around as Project Wallace is featured in the State of CSS survey, mentioned on Syntax.fm and helped improve Polypane's devtools!

  11. CSS @imports are awesome

    CSS imports have been popping up a lot lately for me so I thought it's time to have a deeper look a t them. Was not disappointed!

  12. CSS Day 2023 takeaways

    CSS Day 2023 was once again an amazing conference! So many new things coming to means that we need to look at them for this website too.

  13. Building a lightweight CSS formatter

    After using Prettier for a while it became apparent that both speed and bundle size were slowing down the CSS auditing process, so it's time to build a faster alternative.

  17. 2022 in review

    2022 was a good year in many ways for Project Wallace. New features, in-depth blog posts and a steady stream of new CSS enthusiasts.

  18. A new online CSS prettifier

    There's a lot of places on the web already where you can prettify your CSS already, but here's why Project Wallace now also has it's own prettifier.

  19. CSS complexity: it's complicated

    There's lots of places in CSS to have complexity, but we tend to focus on selectors most of the time. Let's have a look at other places too.

  21. 2021 review in numbers

    First day of a new year! Let's have a look at some numbers from projectwallace.com of 2021.

  22. CSS Analyzer v5 released

    The core of everything that powers Project Wallace just got a big upgrade. And it's pretty good!

  24. Writing docs

    Documentation for all Project Wallace's metrics is absent, and I'm currently working to bring them up to speed.

  27. Sorting CSS <time> values

    Support for analyzing CSS animations and transitions was added recently, but to display that nicely, animation-durations need to be sorted. Let's dive into sorting time.

  28. Analyzing CSS animations

    Project Wallace now supports analysis of CSS animation and transition durations and timing functions.

  29. Counting Lines of Code in CSS

    Project Wallace introduces Lines Of Code for CSS. Compare projects or files based on the amount of lines of code, instead of file size or guesswork.

  31. Privacy by default

    A recent REWORK podcast episode triggered me thinking about user privacy and this post explains how we deal with privacy.

  33. Detecting color aliases

    Color aliases accidentally slip into your codebase and now you have multiple notations for the same color. Great, now what?

  34. Sorting colors in CSS

    Sorting colors in CSS is hard. I've found a method to make it look pretty decent

  35. Introducing Gromit

    Gromit is a tool that runs in your builds and checks if the stats do not exceed any tresholds that you have set.

  41. New libraries released!

    Two new libraries were released that will contribute to a better and faster API to power the Project Wallace website.

  42. *Tap, tap.* Is this thing on?

    The project is coming to a stage where everyone can test it, but a fair warning: it is still unstable!