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A Super Flexible CSS Carousel, Enhanced With JavaScript Navigation
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Firebase Crash Course
Web Components Are Easier Than You Think
Taming Blend Modes: `difference` and `exclusion`
:where() has a cool specificity trick, too.
The WordPress Evolution Toward Full-Site Editing
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Platform News: Using :focus-visible, BBC’s New Typeface, Declarative Shadow DOMs, A11Y and Placeholders
There’s a whole lot of accessibility in this week’s news, from the nuances of using :focus-visible
and input placeholders, to accessible typefaces and a Safari bug with :display: contents
. Plus, a snippet for a bare-bones web component that supports …
Not Your Typical Horizontal Rules
The default browser style for <hr>
is so weird. It’s basically:
border-style: inset;
border-width: 1px;
The default border-color
is black
, but the border doesn’t actually look black, because the inset border “adds a split tone to the line …
Flash of inAccurate coloR Theme (FART)
There is a lot to think about when implementing a dark mode theme on a website. We have a huge guide on it. There are some very clever quick wins out there, but there are also some quite tricky things …
The Importance of Career Laddering
The title of this article is misleading. It’s not actually very important for an Engineering Manager to use career laddering, per se, or my process. It is, however, very important that an Engineering Manager is clear with their employees…
How to Build a FullStack Serverless HN Clone With Svelte and Fauna
Svelte is a free and open-source front end JavaScript framework that enables developers to build highly performant applications with smaller application bundles. Svelte also empowers developers with its awesome developer experience.
Svelte provides a different approach to building web apps …
Building a Settings Component
This is a tremendous CSS-focused tutorial from Adam Argyle. I really like the “just for gap” concept here. Grid is extremely powerful, but you don’t have to use all its abilities every time you reach for it. Here, Adam …
Going “Meta GSAP”: The Quest for “Perfect” Infinite Scrolling
I‘m not sure how this one came about. But, it‘s a story. This article is more about grokking a concept, one that’s going to help you think about your animations in a different way. It so happens that this particular …
Cloud study
This Robin Sloan fella is an interesting character. Not only have I read his one of his fiction novels, the tremendous Mr. Penumbra’s 24‑Hour Bookstore, but I also use the olive oil he makes with partner Kathryn Tomajan. …
Why Netlify?
I think it’s fair to think of Netlify as a CDN-backed static file host. But it would also be silly to think that’s all it is. That’s why I think it’s smart for them to have pages like this, comparing …
CSS is a Strongly Typed Language
One of the ways you can classify a programming language is by how strongly or weakly typed it is. Here, “typed” means if variables are known at compile time. An example of this would be a scenario where an integer …
How to Leverage the Fullscreen API… and Style It
Let’s look at the Fullscreen API in JavaScript. It allows you to do a pretty powerful thing: full screening exactly one particular element you want it to. Not only that, but CSS can help as well with a special selector.…
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