Color Alpha Anywhere
16.11.2021
In my “Different Degrees of Custom Property Usage” article, I noted a situation about colors and CSS custom properties where I went “too far” with breaking up HSL color values. Breaking every single color into its H, S, and L parts …
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Defining and Applying UI Themes Using the Mimcss CSS-in-JS Library
15.11.2021
Theming UI refers to the ability to perform a change in visual styles in a consistent manner that defines the “look and feel” of a site. Swapping color palettes, à la dark mode or some other means, is a good …
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Other Looks at the Conditional Border Radius Trick
13.11.2021
Remember when Ahmad Shadeed wrote about that border-radius “toggle” he found in Facebook’s CSS? It was interesting! I covered it. A few weeks after that surge of linkage, a couple of articles came out digging into it a little deeper. …
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Interactive Rebase: Clean up your Commit History
12.11.2021
Interactive Rebase is the Swiss Army knife of Git commands: lots of use cases and lots of possibilities! It's really a great addition to any developer's tool chain, because it lets you revise your local commit history—before you share your work with the rest of the team. Let's see what you can...
Semantic menu context
11.11.2021
Scott digs into the history of the <menu> element. He traced it as far back as HTML 2 (!) in a 1994 changelog. The vibe then, it seems, was to mark up a list. I would suspect the intention …
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Collective #687
11.11.2021
#Chatcontrol Explained * Layout patterns * Web Animation Course * Curves and Surfaces * Papyrus
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Easy Dark Mode (and Multiple Color Themes!) in React
11.11.2021
I was working on a large React application for a startup, and aside from just wanting some good strategies to keep our styles organized, I wanted to give this whole “dark mode” thing a shot. With the huge ecosystem around …
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Quickly Get Alerted to Front-End Errors and Performance Issues
11.11.2021
(This is a sponsored post.)
Measuring things is great. They say what you only fix what you measure. Raygun is great at measuring websites. Measuring performance, measuring errors and crashes, measuring code problems.
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WDRL — Edition 292: Alt emotions, holding together in tough times, sticky definitions, and in-page filter
11.11.2021
Hey,
thanks for all the feedback that reached me last time, it was awesome to read that so many people support me even when my schedule of writing isn’t regular. Now that I had a thought on how to continue with WDRL I realised that this project won’t be sold, won’t be transferred to someone else...
Don’t Snore on CORS
10.11.2021
Whatever, I just needed a title. Everyone’s favorite web security feature has crossed my desk a bunch of times lately and I always feel like that is a sign I should write something because that’s what blogging is.
The main …
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Quick and Dirty Bootstrap Overrides at Runtime
10.11.2021
Oh, Bootstrap, that old standard web library that either you hate or you spend all your time defending as “it’s fine, it’s not that bad.” Regardless of what side you fall on, it’s a powerful UI framework that’s everywhere, …
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cleanup.pictures
10.11.2021
Nice domain, eh? Does just what it says on the tin: cleans up pictures. You draw over areas of the image you want cleaned up, and it does its best using weird science. It’s like Photoshop’s Spot Healing Brush…
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