:nth-child Between Two Fixed Indexes
29.6.2021
I needed to select some elements between two fixed indexes the other day — like literally the second through fifth elements. Ironically, I have a whole post on “Useful :nth-child Recipes” but this wasn’t one of them.
The answer, it …
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System *Things
29.6.2021
I think we’re all largely aware of named colors in CSS:
color: OldLace;
background: rebeccapurple;
I guess you’d just call those “named colors” in CSS.
Those aren’t the only kind of named colors there are though. Some of them …
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Working around the viewport-based fluid typography bug in Safari
28.6.2021
Sara digs into a bug I happened to have mentioned back in 2012 where fluid type didn’t resize when the browser window resized. Back then, it affected Chrome 20 and Safari 6, but the bug still persists today in Safari …
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Positioning Overlay Content with CSS Grid
28.6.2021
Not news to any web developer in 2021: CSS Grid is an incredibly powerful tool for creating complex, distinct two-dimensional modern web layouts.
Recently, I have been experimenting with CSS Grid and alignment properties to create component layouts that …
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Scaling Organizations Should Consider Building a Website Backed by a CRM Platform
28.6.2021
To make some terminology clear here:
CMS = Content Management System
CRM = Customer Relationship Management
Both are essentially database-backed systems for managing data. HubSpot is both, and much more. Where a CMS might be very focused on content and …
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How to Upload a File via SSH and Command Line
28.6.2021
My preference for daily work is usually GUI applications, like Visual Studio Code for text editing and Cyberduck for remote file server management. I’m also a huge fan of automation, so I do try to learn the command line equivalents of UI functions. My latest desire was wanting to know how...
UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #17
28.6.2021
A fresh pick of the most interesting UI animation and interaction shots to get inspired.
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Custom Property Brain Twisters
25.6.2021
I am part of that 82% that got the answer to Lea Verou's quiz wrong. Stephen Shaw posted a similar quiz as well and it's a fun exercise sharpen your CSS chops.
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How to Cancel Pending API Requests to Show Correct Data
25.6.2021
I recently had to create a widget in React that fetches data from multiple API endpoints. As the user clicks around, new data is fetched and marshalled into the UI. But it caused some problems.
One problem quickly became evident: …
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Chapter 9: Community
24.6.2021
In April of 2009, Yahoo! shut down GeoCities. Practically overnight, the once beloved service had its signup page replaced with a vague message announcing its closure.
We have decided to discontinue the process of allowing new customers to sign up
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Collective #667
24.6.2021
Demystifying styled-components * Asynchronous Design Critique * Benchmarking JavaScript Memory Usage
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TablesNG — Improvements to table rendering in Chromium
23.6.2021
When I blogged “Making Tables With Sticky Header and Footers Got a Bit Easier” recently, I mentioned that the “stickiness” improvement was just one of the features that got better for <table>s in Chrome as part of the TablesNG upgrade…
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