Five Top Quality APIs
13.4.2021
It’s easy to think about creating beautiful UIs for presenting data when you don’t consider the effort that goes into gathering and serving the data itself. Here’s the thing — thanks to apilayer, you can focus on your UIs and not the pain of API creation. No need to worry...
CSS is a Strongly Typed Language
13.4.2021
One of the ways you can classify a programming language is by how strongly or weakly typed it is. Here, “typed” means if variables are known at compile time. An example of this would be a scenario where an integer …
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Intl.NumberFormat
13.4.2021
Formatting numbers on the client side is an important task, especially when you consider how much raw API usage is in play these days. What’s also important is ensuring those numbers are meaningful to users, no matter where they are in the world, especially if you’re an eCommerce...
How to Leverage the Fullscreen API… and Style It
12.4.2021
Let’s look at the Fullscreen API in JavaScript. It allows you to do a pretty powerful thing: full screening exactly one particular element you want it to. Not only that, but CSS can help as well with a special selector.…
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See You Around
12.4.2021
Get it? Because this blog post is about Around, the wonderful new video call software. I’ve been using it for my video calls and I’d be happy to deliver you a TLDR right off the bat: It’s nice. It …
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Wobbly 2D Physics with Matter.js and Paper.js
12.4.2021
A recreation of the effect seen on Cédric Pereira's website using Matter.js and Paper.js.
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Headless Form Submission With the WordPress REST API
9.4.2021
If you’re building a WordPress site, you need a good reason not to choose a WordPress form plugin. They are convenient and offer plenty of customizations that would take a ton of effort to build from scratch. They render the …
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The `ping` attribute on anchor links
8.4.2021
I didn’t know this was a thing until Stefan Judis’s post:
<a href="https://www.stefanjudis.com/popular-posts/"
ping="https://www.stefanjudis.com/tracking/"Read popular posts</a
You give an anchor link a URL via a ping attribute, and the browser will hit that URL with a...
Collective #656
8.4.2021
Swipey image grids * Kaboom!!! * Web Browser Engineering * An accessible toggle
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Comparing the New Generation of Build Tools
8.4.2021
A bunch of new developer tools have landed in the past year and they are biting at the heels of the tools that have dominated front-end development over the last few years, including webpack, Babel, Rollup, Parcel, create-react-app.
These new …
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Detect CSS Overflow Elements
8.4.2021
Every once in a while you encounter a CSS annoyance that takes some cleverness to discover. One such case rears its ugly head in unwanted and unexpected scrollbars. When I see unwanted scrollbars, I usually open developer tools, click the element inspector, and hover around until I find...
CSS Is, In Fact, Awesome
7.4.2021
You’ve seen the iconic image. Perhaps some of what makes that image so iconic is that people see what they want to see in it. If you see it as a critique of CSS being silly, weird, or confusing, you …
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