Chris Coyier

NetNewsWire is one of the classic RSS apps, debuting in 2002. I was pretty stoked when it went 5.0 and was open-sourced in August 2019! You can snag it right here. (Sorry, Mac only.)

It's super nice, is fast, and looks great. It has just the right features.

But... I thought, at least at first, that really prefer websites for reading RSS content. I have multiple machines. I have mobile devices. I don't want my RSS to be limited … Read article

Where do you put styles in web components?

I'm assuming that we're using the Shadow DOM here as, to me, that's one of the big draws of a web component: a platform thing that is a uniquely powerful thing that only the platform can do. So this is about defining styles for a web component in a don't-leak-out way, and less so a way to get global styles to leak in (although that's very interesting as well, which can be … Read article

Christian Schaefer has a great big write-up about dealing with web advertisements. The whole thing is interesting, first documenting all the challenges that ads present, and then presenting modern solutions to each of them.

One code snippet that caught my eye was a simple way to design a component that renders different HTML depending on the screen size.… Read article

Two articles published the exact same day:

1. Bruce Lawson on Smashing Magazine: Why You Should Choose HTML5 <article></article> Over <section></section>
2. Adam Laki on Pine: The Difference Between <section></section> and <div></div> Element

They are comparing slightly different things, but they both involve the <section></section> element. … Read article

Tomasz Łakomy posted a joke tweet about naming all the CSS attributes and Tejas Kumar replied with a joke answer, going as far as making an npm module. You can even run a terminal command to see them:

npx get-all-css-properties

You'll get 259 of them. The source code uses the website quackit.com for the data, which I'd never heard of. 🤷‍♂️

I would have probably looked at MDN, where some quick querySelectorAll handiwork in the console yields a … Read article

Congrats to Chris Enns, our podcast editor on ShopTalk and CodePen Radio, for landing a really cool new podcast to edit: Business Dad. It's Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit, talking to dads. The first episode is with Hasan Minhaj(!)

Speaking of podcasting, Dave wrote up his thoughts on starting a podcast (you should), a beefier and more interesting version of my little writeup. I stand by my $1,000 podcasting setup though. I still use … Read article

When drawing lines with SVG, you often have a <path></path> element with a stroke. You set a stroke-dasharray that is as long as the path itself, as well as a stroke-offset that extends so far that you that it's initially hidden. Then you animate the stroke-offset back to 0 so you can watch it "draw" the shape.

Figuring out the length of the path is the trick, which fortunately you can do in JavaScript by selecting the path and … Read article