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CSS only scroll indicator
For long articles, a scroll indicator can be very useful to indicate the reading progress. Most people use some sort of JavaScript code to do this (which is calculation-expensive); some people, however, find clever tricks to do it with CSS. The CSS-only scroll indicator by Mike Riethmuller is an awesome show-off of using gradients, viewport units and a pseudo-element.