--- title: Best Smashing Magazine posts — February 2021 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Smashing Magazine posts from February 2021, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/smashing/best-of/2021/02 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/smashing/best-of/2021/02 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Smashing Magazine posts — February 2021 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Smashing Magazine posts from February 2021, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of Smashing Magazine — February 2021 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/things-you-can-do-with-css-today--tlpspsrq "Things You Can Do With CSS Today") Article Smashing Magazine · 6y Things You Can Do With CSS Today The present and future of CSS are very bright indeed and if you take a pragmatic, progressive approach to your CSS, then things will continue to get better and better on your projects. In this article, we’ll look into masonry layout, :is selector, clamp() , ch and ex units, updated text decoration, and a few other useful CSS properties. 57 2 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-discord-bot-using-discord-js-8kcxhjlvr "Building A Discord Bot Using Discord.js") Article Smashing Magazine · 6y Building A Discord Bot Using Discord.js An introduction to building a Discord bot using the Discord.js module. The bot will share random jokes, assign or revoke user roles, and post tweets of a specific account to a Discord channel. We’ll cover the process from building the bot up to deploying it to the cloud using Heroku. 20 1 3. 3 [](https://daily.dev/posts/getting-the-most-out-of-git-a8hjwsbky "Getting The Most Out Of Git") Article Smashing Magazine · 6y Getting The Most Out Of Git Knowing Git well helps you become a better developer, boost your developer’s workflow and truly improve the quality of your code base. In this article, Tobias explores some of the less known but very useful features in Git. You’ll learn how to recover deleted commits, clean up your commit history, use submodules to manage third-party code and compose commits with precision. 18 1 4. 4 [](https://daily.dev/posts/create-responsive-image-effects-with-css-gradients-and-aspect-ratio--gc3g9wryg "Create Responsive Image Effects With CSS Gradients And `aspect-ratio`") Article Smashing Magazine · 6y Create Responsive Image Effects With CSS Gradients And \`aspect-ratio\` A classic problem in CSS is maintaining the aspect ratio of images across related components, such as cards. The newly supported aspect-ratio property in combination with object-fit provides a remedy to this headache of the past. 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