A modern drop-in successor to Pico CSS. Just switch `pico.css` to `blades.css`— and voilà! 🥷✨
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Blades CSS retweeted
It's done. Just migrated all PicoCSS based projects to Blades blades.dev/
And, yes, it is really a drop-in replacement to the now discontinued framework. It has --pico-* prefixed variables, so nothing breaks.
Blades CSS is...
#2 Repository Of The Day 🎉
First achieved on 30th, Oct 2026 for CSS
trendshift.io/repositories/1…
Blades CSS v3.1.0 released 🚀
github.com/anyblades/blades/…
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┣ A modern drop‑in successor to Pico CSS ✨
┣ New blades.dev/css/dropdown/ via Popover API
┣ New blades.dev/css/compact/ version for both Blades & Pico
┣ New blades.dev/css/layered/ modules for SvelteKit, Next.js, Nuxt, Astro, etc.
┣ Merged color schemes via `light-dark()`
┣ Experimental blades.dev/css/ninja/ moved into separate repo
┣ Added exact blades.dev/css/pico/#diff vs. "canonical" Pico
┗ More blades.dev/css/pico/ issues resolved
Powered by Blades CSS, a modern drop‑in successor to Pico CSS:
The 1k.football goals tracker as of Nov 1:
🏆 1000
⚽️ 985 🇵🇹 Ronaldo
⚽️ 950
⚽️ 937 🇦🇷 Messi +1
⚽️ 900
⚽️ 850
⚽️ 800
⚽️ 750
⚽️ 700
⚽️ 650
⚽️ 600
⚽️ 550
⚽️ 500
⚽️ 451 🇫🇷 Mbappé +1
⚽️ 450
⚽️ 400
⚽️ 375 🇳🇴 Haaland
⚽️ 350
⚽️ 300
⚽️ 250
⚽️ 200
⚽️ 150
⚽️ 100
⚽️ 72 🇪🇸 Yamal
🇵🇹 Ronaldo is 15 goals away from 1000.
🇦🇷 Messi is on track to surpass Ronaldo:
with 937 goals vs. Ronaldo’s 935 in 23 seasons.
🇫🇷 Mbappé and 🇳🇴 Haaland are behind Messi,
but both are ahead of Ronaldo after 11 seasons.
🇪🇸 Yamal is still in the race:
with 2 goals ahead of Ronaldo after 5 seasons.
🔗 1k.football
We just hit 400 stars on GitHub! ✨️
Huge thanks to our growing Community. Pico is no longer maintained, but Blades steps up as a modern drop-in successor.
To keep the Pico spirit alive, every star counts — thanks in advance for your early support:
github.com/anyblades/blades 🥷
Blades CSS retweeted
グローバルでcss読む設計にうんざりのあなたへこれ
各コンポーネントで読めばnext.jsやsveltekitのバンドラーが自動的にハッシュにしてキャッシュしてくれます
blades.dev/css/layered/#fram…
Blades CSS retweeted
マージしてもらったからフレームワークで使うときの使い方記載されたよみんな使ってねtailwindなんて滅ぼそう
github.com/anyblades/blades#…
Blades CSS retweeted
BREAKING: Pico CSS is no longer maintained (final release v2.1.1)
Official announcement: picocss.com/docs/maintenance
For those looking for active alternatives or forks, @BladesCSS (blades.dev) launched earlier this year as a fully compatible, actively maintained successor, and is already adopted by the Flask/Jinja community website, @getGrav CMS v2, and FastHTML.
Thanks @Netlify for granting Open Source plan to Blades.dev CSS, a fully compatible and actively maintained successor to Pico CSS! 🥷✨
Blades CSS retweeted
Meet BuildAwesome.One:
One Plugin +
One Config +
One Starter
= All-in-One kit for 11ty / Build Awesome 🥷
github.com/buildawesome-one
Thanks @AnswerDotAi's FastHTML for trusting our underlying blades.ninja/css/pico/ fork! ✨
Best minimal 11ty / Build Awesome starters as of Aug 2026:
1️⃣ `buildawesome-content-first` (formerly `subtle`)
2️⃣ `buildawesome-micro-starters`
3️⃣ `eleventy-netlify-boilerplate`
4️⃣ `eleventy-base-blog`
5️⃣ `zeropoint`
🔗 build.blades.ninja/starters/ full list 🔗
CHANGELOG:
• `content-first` & `micro-starters` upgraded to newest Build Awesome Kit v1.4.0
• `micro-starters` added 4 new sub-starters:
— Sveltia CMS
— Shotpipe (OG images)
— 2x for Build Awesome Kit (bare plugin & scripts)
#BuildAwesomeKit