Chris Coyier

There is a lot to like from Mike Riethmuller here:

• The title. When you're building a website from JavaScript-powered components anyway, that is a moment to talk about how to do styling, because it opens some doors to JavaScript-powered styles that you probably wouldn't otherwise choose.
• The personal experience and pragmatism. Drawing on five years of consulting, he's seeing that component re-use and style understandability is suffering, not improving, partly due to every team having different approaches. He says "it's

A great release from Firefox this week! See the whole roundup post from Chris Mills. I'm personally stoked to see clip-path: path(); go live, which we've been tracking as it's so clearly useful. We also get column-span: all; which is nice in case you're one of the few taking advantages of CSS columns. … Read article

There are loads of microsites and developer tools for looking at color accessibility, including tools built right into browser DevTools. They often show you if a color passes AA or AAA WCAG guidelines. But color contrast is more complicated than that because there is a wide variety of vision impairments.

This site from Corey Ginnivan takes two colors and then shows you a simulation of different vision types (e.g. Tritanomaly, trouble distinguishing blues) and whether the colors still pass OK. … Read article

Frank Chimero is redesigning "in the open" and we should pay attention to it because (1) we should listen to anything Frank has to say because he's a great designer and writer and (2) working in public is awesome.

But the gut punch for me in this opening article is the way Frank pulls zero punches on the state of design writing:

Design isn't alone in its lack of quality content—the web, by and large, has become a dumping ground

I don't really think of Firebase as a performance monitoring tool (all I ever think about is auth and real-time data storage), but nevertheless, it totally has that feature.

Justin Ribeiro...

[A] tool to track what real users in the wild are experiencing with an easy setup? Yes, please. [...] I’ve been using Firebase web perf tracking since June on this very blog. Let’s take a look at the good, the bad, and the downright confusing portions of