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Article February 3, 2020

The Three Types of Code

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Every time I start a new project, I organize the code I’m looking at into three types, or categories if you like. And I think these types can be applied to any codebase, any language, any technology or open source project. Whether I’m writing HTML or CSS or building a React component, thinking about these different categories has helped me figure out what to refactor and prioritize, and what to leave alone for now.

Those categories: Boring Code, Salt Mine … Read article “The Three Types of Code”

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Link January 18, 2019

Angular, Autoprefixer, IE11, and CSS Grid Walk into a Bar…

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Chris Coyier

I am attracted to the idea that you shouldn’t care how the code you author ends up in the browser. It’s already minified. It’s already gzipped. It’s already transmogrified (real word!) by things that polyfill it, things that convert it into code that older browsers understand, things that make it run faster, things that strip away unused bits, and things that break it into chunks by technology far above my head.

The trend is that the code we author is … Read article “Angular, Autoprefixer, IE11, and CSS Grid Walk into a Bar…”

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Article May 26, 2016

Considerations for styling the `pre` tag

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Chris Coyier

You’ve probably used it. It’s that very special tag in HTML that allows for the white space within the tags to actually be honored. For example, four spaces will actually be four spaces! That’s unlike how HTML normally works, where white space “collapses” (the four spaces will become one). The <pre></pre> tag is useful indeed.… Read article “Considerations for styling the `pre` tag”

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