Playing with Texture Projection in Three.js
7.1.2020
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to project a texture onto an object in Three.js with some interesting examples.
Playing with Texture Projection in Three.js was written by Marco Fugaro and published on Codrops
How Auto Margins Work in Flexbox
6.1.2020
Robin has covered this before, but I've heard some confusion about it in the past few weeks and saw another person take a stab at explaining it, and I wanted to join the party.
Say you have a flex container with some flex items inside that don't fill the whole area.
See the Pen
ZEYLVEX...
Why every website wants you to accept its cookies
6.1.2020
I'm probably in the minority on this, but I've never ever built one of those "This site uses cookies, here's some kind of explanation of why, and please click this OK button to accept that" bars that feels like they are on half of the internet.
Emily Stewart:
Most of us just tediously click “yes”...
Collective #578
6.1.2020
Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 * Kinesis * Excalidraw * Exifer * Sscaffold * Craft.js
Collective #578 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
How to Stack Elements in CSS
6.1.2020
If you want to create fantastic and unique visual experiences on the web, you will eventually need two elements to overlap or exist in the same place. You may even just need them to be positioned near or next to each other. Let's go over two different ways to accomplish this, one with the position...
Systems, Mistakes, and the Sea
6.1.2020
Our own Robin Rendle:
[...] folks can’t talk about real design systems problems because it will show their company as being dysfunctional and broken in some way. This looks bad for their company and hence looks bad for them. But hiding those mistakes and shortcomings by glossing over everything...
Duplicated Argument Names
6.1.2020
Oftentimes we override or monkey patch functions and, in many cases, there are arguments we don’t care too much about. A common practice for those arguments is using _ for argument names — it’s a generally accepted and known practice for “this isn’t important”....
6 Best WordPress Landing Page Plugins Compared (2020)
5.1.2020
Are you struggling to grow your email list and generate more leads? Are you having trouble signing up people for your webinars? Landing pages are the solution to all...
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UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #1
4.1.2020
The first roundup that collects inspirational UI interactions and animations.
UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #1 was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
Is “is” Useful?
3.1.2020
God I'm funny.
Anytime we have fairly repetitive selectors that have a common parent, it's probably a place we can use the :is() pseudo-selector.
Holger Bartel demonstrates like this:
section section h1, section article h1, section aside h1, section nav h1,
article section h1, article article...
Gotta Select’em All
3.1.2020
I suspect it is not highly known that CSS can control how text is selected. You can do user-select: none; to prevent some text from being selected. That's probably not terribly good UX in general, but perhaps you use some period (.) characters as decoration or something, I could see preventing...
Microbrowsers are Everywhere
3.1.2020
The word "microbrowser" clearly got my attention. Never heard that before. Colin Bendell defines them as the little parts of other software that do HTTP requests to a URL to generate a preview. Like the little URL preview in iOS messages, WhatsApp, or Slack.
I'm a tiny bit skeptical of the name...