This post really helped me understand just how surprisingly easy it is to start using View Transitions—as quick as a single meta tag in the head to enable fade/opacity transitions—and a slew of other great tips, tricks, and things to…
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“Generate linear() easings from JavaScript and SVG”
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This post by Sara really helped solidify my understanding of color schemes in the browser, how they affect HTML’s default appearance in browsers, and how we can make use of them in CSS and JavaScript. Lots of useful code examples…
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“Some collected thoughts and ideas around applying a functional approach to writing and maintaining documentation, especially for design systems.”
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A handy trick to add a bit of smoothness to animations that Rach Smith calls Lerp, a nickname for Linear Interpolation between two points.
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I love rather simple but powerful solutions like this—so clever!
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This post really resonated with me, putting into words so beautifully things which I've been unable to articulate even to myself.
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“95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography.”
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Andy Bell masterfully breaks-down some of the most powerful and elegant (and my favourite too!) solutions we have in CSS today.
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I think this might just be the inspirational kick-in-the-pants I’ve needed to re-explore this hobby myself! 🐰🕳️
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“This articles explores some of the unexpected things that CSS can animate and some nifty things you can do by animating them.”
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An incredible, zero-copyright archive of millions of the Smithsonian’s images available for all to download and use.
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“Using !important with custom properties might not work as you expect.”
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“What if each preview image was a piece of generative art?”
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A comprehensive guide for exploring and learning about the theory, science, and perception of color and contrast.
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Awesome little trick for building better "initial" animation states where multiple elements are staggered.
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“Be the browser’s mentor, not its micromanager.”
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“Software engineering principles, from Robert C. Martin's book Clean Code, adapted for JavaScript. This is not a style guide. It's a guide to producing readable, reusable, and refactorable software in JavaScript.”
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While I don't think I get so much feedback on my posts that this is an immediate concern for my website, I'm going to keep this in mind, as I particularly like the idea of hiding interactions behind a details…
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Wow, just wow. What an incredible article about Global Positioning System with some delightful interactive demos to help understand complex ideas.
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How long can you work on making a routine task more efficient before you’re spending more time than you save? (Across five years) A handy chart from XKCD
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One of the sharper and cleaner tools for generating fluid font-sizes with just the bells and whistles I need. I love that it spits out CSS Variables and gives you control over naming as well, generating as many steps as…
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This incredible post covers just about everything you'd want to know about implementing a hexagonal grid. Chock-full of useful info!
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My good friend, Dave, has written this excellent overview of SVG favicons and using prefers-color-scheme to toggle a dark-mode version.
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This is definitely something that I may or may not do often… fantastic little guide to doing it right!
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“Early Singapore’s authoritarian competency is a model invoked by leaders from China to Rwanda. But its rise was complex, messy, and the result of long factional battles. There are hard limits to how far it can be exported.”
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Ana Rodrigues perfectly lays out what the IndieWeb is all about, along with the why’s and how’s of getting involved!
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My great friend, Tom, has written a super-comprehensive article about IA: a topic I’m lacking in serious experience with!
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Some useful gems in here I had no idea about!
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An interesting read about the history of my girlfriend's paternal grandmother, detailing the lives of women who immigrated to Singapore.
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A serious rabbit hole deep-dive into musical genres that's uniquely presented.
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This resonates with me time and time again. Such a powerful talk.
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When you build JavaScript components, you need to manage focus for both keyboard users and screen readers. The WAI-ARIA specs say there are two ways to manage focus
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Incredible visualisations and information from Washington Post.
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This is so freaking cool. “Fraidycat is a desktop app or browser extension for Firefox or Chrome [you can] use to follow people (hundreds) on whatever platform they choose”. Warm, fuzzy, IndieWeb vibes from this one!
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“Using Proxies and subscriber functions, we can create an observable, reactive state system with a tiny footprint.”
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It me.
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Dave Rupert gives an extremely thorough run-through of numerous gotchas to do with writing HTML you might think is accessible, but isn't quite what it seems.
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“A downloadable goose-sperience for Windows and macOS”
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“Feature-Policy is a relatively new feature that lets you opt-in or out of certain browser features on your site.” Tim Kadlec runs through performance linting using feature policies.
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CSS-Tricks' complete guide to links, buttons, and button-like inputs in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
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“The other day I was using CSS grid and custom properties to solve some problems that would have seemed almost impossible only a year or two ago. This made me wonder: What CSS could I be writing in a few…
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Generate clever and gorgeous CSS shadows with this simple tool.
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Trys, once again, taking things to the next level with CSS locks, CSS properties, media queries, and the cascade to create incredibly dynamic and fluid layouts.
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Amazing demo for this variable font.
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REALLY Canadian. I have a slightly embarrassing feeling I'll be using these.
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Not only is this beautiful and a joy to read, it's chock-full of of useful info about how CSS' cascading.
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A repository of styled and styled form control elements and markup patterns, and how they are announced by screen readers.
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With min(), max(), and clamp() we can greatly simplify how we define fluid property values in CSS—can't wait for for wider browser support!
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“A rational system for generating thousands of possible color schemes.”
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“Create beautiful, accessible, and adaptive color systems using contrast-ratio based generated colors.”
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Bringing back the weird web!
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This is such an amazing tool for visualising colour and contrast that'll help you confidently meet your accessibility requirements. It can even provide closest accessible colours, so it really takes away a huge amount of the manual work and difficulty…
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From the venerable Trys Mudford comes JournalBook, a private, offline-first personal journal.
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Another bit of clever fun from Tim Holman—this time building some fun musical melodies by counting in binary, and you can customise the notes too!
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A super-fun technique for using SVG to mask one GIF on top of another.
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I admit that I don’t understand a lot of the math going on here, but I’m very interested in the output.
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This is a set of standards that define the universal design language and content composition at giffgaff.
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HTTP Archive's annual state of the web report. This is *super-comprehensive* and is jam-packed with useful information.
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“Codevember is a challenge for developers to sharpen their creativity and improve their skills. The goal is to build a creative piece of code every day of November.”
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A dead simple git cheatsheet.
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In this YouTube video, Jen Simmons gives a thorough run-through of Firefox's Font Editor in its Dev Tools.
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Everything you need to know about changelogs, and presented beautifully as well.
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A little tool to generate compound grids by Michelle Barker. Enter the number of columns for each of your grids, and they’ll be magically merged into a compound grid.
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Simon Niklaus, Long Mai, Jimei Yang and Feng Liu have made an incredible framework for automatically synthesising a parallax/Ken Burns effect from a single source image. Check out the video!
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It boggles the mind how much effort went into building this, and how clean it is!
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Fall in love with the secret world of fonts
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This has to be the coolest typeface demo I've ever seen, hands down.
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Until reading this, I’ve been stumbling around feeling frustrated that I can't seem to find any efficiency in my use of the language. This is exactly what I needed to read to get into and grok vi.
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Arek’s got Part 2 of his Tips & Tricks for VS Code where he shows you how to save time and keystrokes by using snippets!
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Ever used an active or current class to denote/style a navigation element? Léonie demonstrates how to use the aria-current attribute to do the same coupled with the boon to accessibility it brings.
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Andy Bell breaks down implementing robust theme-switching functionality on your own site.
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I find this useful when switching between multiple windows. Written by my good friend, Arek.
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Foreignrap is a platform to discover + enjoy international rap music. Run by enthusiasts, we share sounds from across the world for you to enjoy 🙏
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Get on loser! We’re going POOLSIDE
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My good friend, Dave, has remixed Terence Eden's SVG with JavaScript calendar icon to be powered by keywords in Matrix (a CMS developed by Squiz).
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The internet is full of amazing people building amazing things, including this! I'm so inspired by projects like this.
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Invaluable tips on CSS and Network Performance from Harry Roberts
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Every Layout will teach you how to better harness the built-in algorithms that power browsers and CSS.
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Equally as interesting as the technique on display is Beau Jackson’s explanation of this incredible, photo-realistic combination of SVG and CSS to draw clouds!
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“Appscope is a directory of Progressive Web Apps, showcasing the best PWA examples. All apps listed run entirely in the web browser and launch instantly without an app download. If you wish, they can be saved to your home screen…
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If, like me, you’re getting into baking your own bread, there may be no better teacher than Jeremy Cherfas, who’s been baking bread for over 50 years. His website is chock-full of useful information, recipes, and anecdotes to keep your…
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Jen Simmons’ demos and experiments were instrumental in my learning CSS Grid, and even if you already know your way around the spec blindfolded, I guarantee you’ll find something new and interesting here!
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My very good friend, Dave, outlines what Record Store Day is, why movements like these are important, and why this particular once has fallen short. Wise words from seriously big fan of music.
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The design Simon presented here in 2010 was and still is as beautiful as it was illuminating, right at the cusp of responsive design on the web.
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PROBLEM: You are a web programmer. You have users. Your users rate stuff on your site. You want to put the highest-rated stuff at the top and lowest-rated at the bottom. You need some sort of score to sort by.
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I tend to write quite verbosely and as a result end up with big, unruly blocks of text in my articles. Thanks to Richard, I've learned a bit more about how hyphens and how they can help!
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I've struggled for a little while to wrap my head around these new methods, but this article by Una Kravets couldn't have made them any easier or fun to understand!
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Equally as impressive as Rob Weychert's 'Tinnitus Tracker' is the CSS Grid that powers it. This article and accompanying code is so thorough and cleanly-thought through. What a joy to read and see in action.
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This really resonates with me—too often I've planned or been part of planning a big project that fizzles out and burns people out after months. Most of my productivity and positive output has been the outcome of quick, iterative improvements.
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Compose a two-measure melody and machine learning will harmonise with your tune! This is basically magic to me.
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Quill is a simple Micropub client for creating posts on your own website. To use it, your website will need to have a Micropub endpoint, and this app will send requests to it to create posts.
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This is one of the most clever and interesting interactive demos I've ever seen. Worth setting aside time to go through the whole thing!
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“Learn how to create an interactive "fake" 3D effect for images with depth maps and plain WebGL.”
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“For the longest time we didn’t have to pay a lot of attention to the way we talk about color. The modern display technologies capable of showing more vivid shades have, for better or for worse, changed the rules of…
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My very good friend, Dave, gave an incredible talk on accessibility at the recent Monki Gras conference in London. Worth every second of watching!
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NES.css is a NES-style CSS Framework.
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Not your typical portfolio website. Absolutely mind-blowing.
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Revamped and updated version of the original.
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Who even needs media queries anymore? Not Heydon Pickering, that's who.
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I've really enjoyed using this as my Microsub reader for the last few weeks. Combined with X-Ray, it's been pretty trivial to debug my feeds!
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Front end communities have been up-in-arms recently about CSS's shortcomings (and how they compare to JS's shortcomings, for example). I think CSS has been undeservedly been painted in a poor light, but Andy Bell's article had me nodding enthusiastically throughout.
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Childhood Picassos, your time has come again.
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I'm clearly cruising on a Chrono Trigger vibe because, again, I need to share some music by some unquestionably-talented musicians, @reubengingrich http://reubengingrich.com/) But how can you not love Secret of the Forest?
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The classic rap air horn. That's all.
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An Atom Editor package to support multiline selection which I forked and modified to mimic Sublime Text's multiline selection technique.
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Play your own musical synth with delay, feedback, and scuzz.
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Seems there's a bug in Internet Explorer 9 wherein pseudo content (:before and :after content) doesn't get parsed properly in the DOM, so instead of declarations like font-size being applied only once despite multiple occurrences of the rule, but is…
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A mesmerising Rube Goldberg machine made with HTML form elements and their form element-specific attributes and states, like checked, :focus, and value.
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This is an incredible display of creativity and logic on the web. The effort that has gone into this is unbelievable.
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In other words Quick editing your last sent texts
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Test your regex skills. So much fun. Brainmelting, but fun.
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Little late on this one, but gold dust nonetheless. SVG Wizard, Sara Soueidan, discusses in-depth how to style SVG's element and how to overcome the challenges in doing so.
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The Service Worker Cookbook is a collection of working, practical examples of using service workers in modern web apps.
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The polyfill service selectively bundles browser polyfills based on the User-Agent header supplied in a request, with the intention of allowing JavaScript and CSS developers to use modern standards in legacy user agents that do not natively support the standard.…
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