Boost app engagement with chat, voice, and video APIs
25.2.2021
Sendbird is a service for helping you add social features to your app. Wanna add in-app chat? Sendbird does that. Wanna add in-app voice or video calls? Sendbird does that.
Here’s how I always think about stuff like this. Whatever …
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Teaching Web Dev for Free is Good Business
24.2.2021
It feels like a trend (and a smart one) for tech platforms to invest in really high-quality learning material for their platform. Let’s have a gander.
Webflow University
Surely Webflow is thinking: if people invest in learning Webflow, they’ll be …
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A DRY Approach to Color Themes in CSS
24.2.2021
The other day, Florens Verschelde asked about defining dark mode styles for both a class and a media query, without repeat CSS custom properties declarations. I had run into this issue in the past but hadn’t come up with a …
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SmolCSS
24.2.2021
A wonderful collection of little layout-related CSS snippets from Stephanie Eckles that serves both as a quick reference and a reminder of how straightforward and powerful CSS has become.
Random things to note!
The resizeable containers aren’t some JavaScript library.
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9 Useful WordPress Plugins For Your 2021 Projects
24.2.2021
A collection of high-quality WordPress plugins that will take your site's performance and functionality to a higher level.
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Hiding Content Responsibly
24.2.2021
We’ve covered the idea of hiding things in CSS many times here, the most recent post being Marko Ilic’s “Comparing Various Ways to Hide Things in CSS” which did a nice job of comparing different techniques which you’d use in different …
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React Component Tests for Humans
23.2.2021
React component tests should be interesting, straightforward, and easy for a human to build and maintain.
Yet, the current state of the testing library ecosystem is not sufficient to motivate developers to write consistent JavaScript tests for React components. Testing …
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What’s the Backup Plan for Your WordPress Site?
23.2.2021
Of all the reasons we love and use Jetpack for CSS-Tricks—a poster child WordPress site—is that we can sleep easy at night knowing we have real-time backups running with Jetpack Backup. That way, no matter what, everything …
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Creating an Infinite Circular Gallery using WebGL with OGL and GLSL Shaders
23.2.2021
A tutorial explaining how to build a draggable and scrollable infinite circular gallery using WebGL with OGL and GLSL Shaders.
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Getting Deep into Shadows
22.2.2021
Let’s talk shadows in web design. Shadows add texture, perspective, and emphasize the dimensions of objects. In web design, using light and shadow can add physical realism and can be used to make rich, tactile interfaces.
Take the landing page …
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To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language
22.2.2021
One of the things I do when teaching beginning front-end development is ask students to describe what it’s like to read HTML. I give them pretty basic markup for a long-form article, and ask them to read it twice: first …
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Clipping Scrollable Areas On The inline-start Side
19.2.2021
On a default left-to-right web page, “hanging” an element off the right side of the page (e.g. position: absolute; right: -100px;) triggers a horizontal scrollbar that scrolls as far as needed to make that whole element visible. But if …
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