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This article is based on Brian's presentation at Connect.Tech 2019. Slides with speaker notes from that presentation are available to download.

In my experience, developers generally find the benefits of the JAMstack easy to comprehend. Sites are faster because the resources are static and served from a CDN. Sites are more secure because there is no framework, application server or database to compromise. Development and deployment can be optimized because all of the pieces that make up … Read article

I find myself web searching for some tool by Yoksel at least every month. I figured I'd list out some of my favorites here in case you aren't aware of them.… Read article

The world of web development has always had a gap between the design-to-development handoff. Ambitious designers want the final result of their effort to look unique and beautiful (and true to their initial vision), whereas many developers find more value in an outcome that is consistent, dependable, and rock solid (and easy to code). This dynamic can result in sustained tension between the two sides with both parties looking to steer things their own way.

While this situation is … Read article

In my germinating years, the general advice was this:

<ul>
  <li><span>List item</span></li>
  <!-- ... -->
</ul>

li { color: red; } /* bullet */
li span (color: black; } /* text */

Not terrible, but not great. You're "resetting" everything at the span level, so it gets more complicated the more you do.

Things are getting much easier. Let's take a walk through this world getting more modern as we go.… Read article

I learned something about percentage-based (%) padding today that I had totally wrong in my head! I always thought that percentage padding was based on the element itself. So if an element is 1,000 pixels wide with padding-top: 50%, that padding is 500 pixels. It's weird having top padding based on width, but that's how it works — but only sorta. The 50% is based on the parent element's width, not itself. That's the part that confused me. … Read article

Woah, I didn't see this coming! The HTTP Archive dropped this big "state of the web" report called Web Almanac with guest writers exploring data from 5.8 million websites.

Una Kravetz and Adam Argyle wrote the CSS chapter. The point is to squeeze a digestible amount of insight out of a mountain's worth of data. So there is some irony here with me squeezing in my thoughts about this chapter for an even quicker read, but hey, here we … Read article

I recently had an opportunity to try the new Vue Composition API in a real project to check where it might be useful and how we could use it in the future.

Until now, when we were creating a new component we were using Options API. That API forced us to separate the component’s code by options, meaning that we needed to have all reactive data in one place (data), all computed properties in one place (… Read article