The Humble `img` Element And Core Web Vitals
18.5.2021
Addy Osmani on images in HTML:
The humble <img> element has gained some superpowers over the years. Given how central it is to image optimization on the web, let’s catch up on what it can do and how it can
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A Love Letter to HTML & CSS
17.5.2021
I see you. In the back there, behind JavaScript and React and PHP and all those “real” programming languages, I see you. And I appreciate you.
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Euismod
17.5.2021
An interactive tool for learning grid syntax from Etesam Ansari. In the Learn section, it teaches you some concepts (involving multiple bits of the grid syntax) then gives you a task to complete by filling out the right syntax. I’m …
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Curly Tubes from the Lusion Website with Three.js
17.5.2021
Learn how to replicate the curly tubes from the Lusion website using light scattering in Three.js.
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Auto-Generated Social Media Images
14.5.2021
I’ve been thinking about social media images again. You know, the images that (can) show up when you share a link in places like Twitter, Facebook, or iMessage. You’re essentially leaving money on the table without them, because they …
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Creating Stylesheet Feature Flags With Sass !default
14.5.2021
!default is a Sass flag that indicates conditional assignment to a variable — it assigns a value only if the variable was previously undefined or null. Consider this code snippet:
$variable: 'test' !default;
To the Sass compiler, this line …
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HTML Boilerplates
14.5.2021
Manuel Matuzović goes line-by-line through a boilerplate HTML document. I like it. It’s a good reference and has a lot of the same type of stuff I tend to put in the main HTML template. It makes me think about …
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DevTools for CSS layouts 2021 edition
14.5.2021
Chen Hui Jing covers some recent movement in DevTools:
Firefox’s grid inspector was pretty full-featured from the get-to and released together with CSS grid in Firefox 52. It was constantly improved upon since. Chrome added a basic grid inspector
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2021 Design Systems (Survey/Courses)
14.5.2021
My friends at Sparkbox are doing a survey on design systems, as they do each year. Go ahead and fill it out if you please. Here are the results from last year. In both 2019 and 2020, the vibe was …
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Advanced CSS Animation Using cubic-bezier()
13.5.2021
When dealing with complex CSS animations, there is a tendency to create expansive @keyframes with lots of declarations. There are a couple of tricks though that I want to talk about that might help make things easier, while staying in …
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SVGator 3.0 Reshapes the Way You Create and Animate SVG With Extensive New Features
13.5.2021
Building animations can get complicated, particularly compelling animations where you aren’t just rolling a ball across the screen, but building a scene where many things are moving and changing in concert. When compelling animation is the goal, a timeline GUI …
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Collective #661
13.5.2021
A Primer On CSS Container Queries * PINTR * SimpleLogin * Psychology of Design * Tiny Wins
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