Git’s Patch Mode
Let’s say we’ve just changed some CSS in a file and we want to stage it with Git. …
Websites We Like: June 2016
We have a new thing we’d like to try! We’re going to round up some websites that we like and share them with you. We’ll take a look at the weird and peculiar, the shocking and downright odd; websites that …
Improving Your CSS with Parker
Harry Roberts has written about Parker, a stylesheet analysis tool by Katie Fenn. He explains why using tools like Parker are wonderfully helpful to developers:
…I use Parker almost daily, and regularly go through it with my clients and
Instant Loading: Building Offline-First Progressive Web Apps
There was a lot of great talks from Google’s I/O event this year, and Jake Archibald’s talk on building offline-first is certainly one of them. The DevTools in 2016 talk is great too.
Or, decide for yourself! There is a …
Vanilla List
Vanilla List is a repository of JavaScript libraries; datepickers, form validation and push notifications are just some of the libraries available if you can’t (or don’t want) to a library dependency.…
CSS Modules and React
In this final post of our series on CSS Modules, I’ll be taking a look at how to make a static React site with the thanks of Webpack. This static site will have two templates: a homepage and an about …
HEAD
Josh Buchea has collected “A list of everything that goes in the
. Over 100 <head> of your document”<meta> tags alone!…
All or Nothing
Jonathan Snook takes a look at the all property which can be used like this:
.element {
all: initial;
}The idea is that it should set all properties of an element to initial, removing all custom styling thus …
Screamy Bird
During San Francisco’s Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas “Hackathon”, Glen Chiaccheri made a game where you have to literally scream your way through it.
Make sure to check it out in Firefox, as Chrome and …
Reducing JPG File size
There’s lots of neat tricks for reducing the size of JPGs in this article by Colt McAnlis:
…With the Average webpage size now larger than the original DOOM game, you have to start asking where all the bytes are coming
Buttons in Design Systems
I really like this post by Nathan Curtis where he discusses how buttons can be applied to a design system:
…I love buttons. I can do things with buttons. Take a next step. Make a commitment. Get things done.