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Why I Chose Angular to Build a URL Shortener
Technical Writing for Developers
My Dumbest CSS Mistakes
React Hooks: The Deep Cuts
How stroke-dasharray Patterns Work
Single Element Loaders: Going 3D!
Office Spaces
Equal Columns With Flexbox: It’s More Complicated Than You Might Think
Everything You Need to Know About Date in JavaScript
Truncate String with Ellipsis
Actually, the San Francisco Typeface Does Ship as a Variable Font
Apple unveiled an expanded version of its San Francisco system font at WWDC 2022. Then, last month, Jim Nielsen zeroed in on the font’s variations, explaining how the font provides a spectrum of variations based on the width and weight…
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Converting Speech to PDF with NextJS and ExpressJS
With speech interfaces becoming more of a thing, it’s worth exploring some of the things we can do with speech interactions. Like, what if we could say something and have that transcribed and pumped out as a downloadable PDF?
Well, …
Implicit Grids, Repeatable Layout Patterns, and Danglers
Dave Rupert with some modern CSS magic that tackles one of those classic conundrums: what happens when the CSS for component is unable to handle the content we throw at it?
The specific situation is when a layout grid expects …
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Exploring CSS Grid’s Implicit Grid and Auto-Placement Powers
When working with CSS Grid, the first thing to do is to set display: grid on the element that we want to be become a grid container. Then we explicitly define the grid using a combination of grid-template-columns, grid-template-rows…
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Scroll Shadows? Pure CSS Parallax? Game Back On.
Chris calls scroll shadows one his favorite CSS-Tricks of all time. Lea Verou popularized the pure CSS approach using four layered background gradients with some clever background-attachment magic. The result is a slick scrolling interaction that gives users a hint …
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Recreating MDN’s Truncated Text Effect
It’s no secret that MDN rolled out a new design back in March. It’s gorgeous! And there are some sweet CSS-y gems in it that are fun to look at. One of those gems is how card components handle truncated …
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:first
The :first CSS pseudo-class is used with the @page at-rule to select the first page in a printed document. It’s very similar to the way :first-child selector works to target the first child element in a parent container, but instead …
grid-auto-flow
The grid-auto-flow CSS property is part of the CSS Grid Layout specification that allows us to control the flow of grid items that are automatically placed when they are not explicitly positioned with any grid-placement properties.
.grid-container {
display: grid;
Why I Chose Angular to Build a URL Shortener
URL Shorteners are tools we use to make links shorter than they actually are. With a URL Shortener, you can transform a long link (maybe for a registration form or article) into a shorter version.
Behind the scenes, the long …
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Roundup of Recent Document Outline Chatter
It’s not everyday that HTML headings are the topic de jour, but my folder of saved links is accumulating articles about the recently merged removal of the document outline algorithm in the WHATWG Living Standard.
First off, you should know …
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Logical Properties for Useful Shorthands
Michelle Barker with my favorite sorta blog post: short, practical, and leaves you with a valuable nugget for your time. Here, she gets into logical property shorthands in CSS, particularly those that set lengths just on a single axis, …
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