What I Learned This Week Roundup For November 18, 2025

November 18, 2025
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This week I learned:

1. I can use the new-ish CSS text-wrap: balance feature to make my headlines wrap in such a way that they don't produce orphans. And that there is no reason I should not start doing this on any production site where it would help to make things more legible.

Before applying the text-balance Tailwind utility class on my headline:

text-balance-before.png

After applying the text-balance Tailwind utility class on my headline:

text-balance-after.png

Per Can I use:

"Allows multiple lines of text to have their lines broken in such a way that each line is roughly the same width, often used to make headlines more readable and visually appealing."
caniuse-balance.png

2. Zen browser might finally get me to adopt, at least partly, another browser. This is a workspace I started making last night in Zen to keep track of my personal site dev needs:

zen-browser.png

I'm hoping it takes off further and that some bugs and quirks I experienced get ironed out.


3. The alternative to gzip compression tool "brotli" can be used in production deployments now, where it might be of use:

caniuse-brotli.png