Check it out on Instagram I’m scared. No, not because there’s a pandemic going on, even though that itself is enough to make one lose their mind. There’s another deadly virus crawling its way into my whole being. Slowly eating away at my sanity, feasting on my thoughts, mutating inside my head as if a colony of ants...

In HTML and JavaScript, you can easily apply some styling with the style attribute or property. But if you just want to pass a value, like a color, style falls short. Fortunately, there is a solution for this, which has now been adopted by all modern browsers: CSS Custom Properties for Cascading…