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In this week's roundup, the string length of two emojis is not always equal, something to consider before making that rounded button, and we may have a new way to share web apps between devices, even when they are offline.… Read article
Here's a little direct product endorsement for ya: I literally use Buddy for deployment on all my projects.
Buddy isn't just a deployment tool, we'll get to that, but it's something that Buddy does very well and definitely a reason you might look at picking it up yourself if you're looking around for a reliable, high-quality deployment service.… Read article
When I was looking through the documentation of git commands, I noticed that many of them had an option for <pathspec></pathspec>. I initially thought that this was just a technical way to say “path,” and assumed that it could only accept directories and filenames. After diving into the rabbit hole of documentation, I found that the pathspec option of git commands are capable of so much more.… Read article
Sarah introduced us to GitHub Actions right after it dropped about a year ago. Now they have improved the feature and are touting its CI/CD abilities. Run tests, do deployment, do whatever stuff computers do! It's essentially a YAML file that says run this, then this, then this, etc., with configuration.
GitLab kinda paved the way on this particular feature, although you don't get the machines for free on GitLab, nor does it seems like there is an … Read article
Sophie Koonin blogged "Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer," which was a fascinating look into the mind of a web developer and what they need to look up during day-to-day work. We all joke that we just Google stuff (or StackOverflow stuff) we don't know off the bat and copy and paste, but this is more to the heart of it.
A few just from one day:
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Because we know that all people with battery-powered devices are constantly concerned about their battery levels, and that websites are significant consumers of that battery power, we should probably think about this stuff a lot more than we do.
I'd expect the browser itself to be our main ally here, doing smart things to reduce power consumption without us developers needing to think too much about it. But we've learned over the years that it's always a shared responsibility. We … Read article
Let’s attempt to coin a term here: "Static Form Provider." You bring your HTML <form></form>, but don’t worry about the back-end processing that makes it work. There are a lot of these services out there!
Static Form Providers do all tasks like validating, storing, sending notifications, and integrating with other APIs. It’s lovely when you can delegate big responsibilities like this. The cost? Typically a monthly or annual subscription, except for a few providers and limited plans. The cost … Read article
Surprise: scrollbars are complicated, especially cross-browser and cross-platform.
Sometimes they take up space and sometimes they don't. Sometimes that is affected by a setting and sometimes it isn't. Sometimes you can see them and sometimes you can't unless you're actually scrolling. Styling them is handled in all sorts of different ways, including some very recent developments.
Follow Zach's journey toward thinner, native, user-preference-respecting, more aesthetic scrollbars, particularly for element-level scrollbars that ends up here. … Read article
Sounds kind of like a hard problem doesn't it? We often don't have product shots in thousands of colors, such that we can flip out the <img src="product-red.jpg" alt="red product"/> with <img src="product-blue.jpg" alt="blue product"/>. Nor do we typically have products in a vector format such that we can apply SVG fills to them and such.
There is a clever way to do it though, even when your product shots are bitmap graphic files, like JPG or PNG. … Read article
"Data Loss" is a funny term. My brain thinks of it like packet loss on the way from the server to your browser, resulting in missing content in files. Perhaps it is that on some level, but in CSS parlance, it has to do with the overflow property. Too much content for sized container + hidden overflow = data loss.
But it isn't only overflow that can cause this "data loss." Alignment can cause data loss too. Imagine flexbox or … Read article