How to Start a Blog: a Step-by-step Guide
14.9.2020
These days it seems like nearly everyone has a blog. Blogs can be a great way to document your hobbies or interests, keep a record of your daily activities,...
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Interaction Media Features and Their Potential (for Incorrect Assumptions)
14.9.2020
The Media Queries Level 4 Interaction Media Features — pointer, hover, any-pointer and any-hover — are meant to allow sites to implement different styles and functionality (either CSS-specific interactivity like :hover, or JavaScript behaviors, when queried using window.matchMedia), depending...
5 Awesome JavaScript Promise Tricks
14.9.2020
The Promise API changed the game in JavaScript. We went from abusing setTimeouts and settling for synchronous operations to doing everything possible to leverage this new async API. Let’s check out a handful of awesome Promise API tricks! Cancel a fetch Request One problem we instantly...
15 Best Brackets Extensions For A Smooth Coding Experience
12.9.2020
Different coders prefer different code editors. But, when it comes to front-end design, there’s only one code editor that beats all the rest. That is Brackets. Brackets is the...
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Read Me!
12.9.2020
A fancy experiential essay from the team at Readymag, which is a tool for building… fancy experiential essays, about fancy experiential essays:
With all the technology addressing readability issues, it’s still design basics that distinguish a readable text from one that isn’t. Here are some...
Using a brightness() filter to generically highlight content
12.9.2020
Rick Strahl:
I can’t tell you how many times over the years I’ve implemented a custom ‘button’ like CSS implementation. Over the years I’ve used images, backgrounds, gradients, and opacity to effectively ‘highlight’ a control. All that works of course,...
How to Get Handwriting Animation With Irregular SVG Strokes
11.9.2020
I wanted to do a handwriting animation for calligraphy fonts — the kind where the words animate like they are being written by an invisible pen. Because calligraphy fonts have uneven stroke widths (they actually aren’t even strokes in terms of SVG), it was near impossible to do this sort of thing...
Defining “View Source”
10.9.2020
Last time there was a little flurry of activity around the concept of “View Source,” I did get the sense that not everyone was on the same page about what that even means. Jim Nielsen:
First, when we talk about “View Source” what precisely are we talking about? I think this is...
Logical Assignment Operators
10.9.2020
I love JavaScript, it’s my favorite programming language, but I love dipping into other languages because they offer a new perspective on coding paradigms. There’ve been syntax additions to JavaScript that I’ve seen I found interesting (think ?? in optional chaining) and now...
Collective #622
10.9.2020
react-three-flex * AVIF has landed * Parsel * How they test * Colors for your data visualizations
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Modifying Specific Letters with CSS and JavaScript
10.9.2020
Changing specific characters can be a challenge in CSS. Often, we’re forced to implement our desired changes one-by-one in HTML, perhaps using the span element. But, in a few specific cases, a CSS-focused solution may still be possible. In this article, we’ll start by looking at some CSS-first...
Setting up and Customizing the Ant Design System in a Nuxt App
9.9.2020
I don’t typically work with UI libraries because they can be cumbersome and hard to override, which can contribute to a bloated. However, Ant Design has recently gained some some of my affection because it’s easy to use, has extensible defaults, and features a delicate design.
Nuxt and...