Hashnode: A Blogging Platform for Developers
22.7.2021
Hashnode is a free platform for developer blogging. Say you’ve just finished an ambitious project and want to write about 10 important lessons you’ve learned as a developer during it. You should definitely blog it—I love that kind of blog post, myself. Making a jump into the technical debt...
Yet Another Mobile Context Menu With No Indication it Can Scroll
21.7.2021
Remember Tyler Hall’s personal story of a UX moment where the popup sharing context menu on iOS had no visible indication that the content inside was scrollable? The thing his mom wanted to do seemed impossible iOS isn’t alone here …
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ECMAScript proposal: JSON modules
21.7.2021
Dr. Axel Rauschmayer looks at JSON modules, which is already live in Chrome 91 (but nothing else). It looks just like an ES Modules-style import, only you asset the type at the end.
import configData from './config-data.json' assert {type:
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A Step-By-Step Process for Turning Designs Into Code
21.7.2021
Turning website design files into a combination of HTML, CSS and JavaScript is the bread and butter of many front-end web development jobs, but there’s a part of this work that doesn’t neatly fit in to tutorials on any specific …
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Creating a Typography Motion Trail Effect with Three.js
21.7.2021
Learn how to use WebGL framebuffers via Three.js to create an interactive motion trail effect for text.
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The Nine States of Design
21.7.2021
Here’s a really good ol’ post from way back in 2015 all about the nine states of design and how we should think all the edge cases whenever we’re building interfaces. Vince Speelman writes:
Modern UI teams are designing components
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Your Image Is Probably Not Decorative
20.7.2021
Eric doesn’t mince words, especially in the title, but also in the conclusion:
In modern web design and development, displaying an image is a highly intentional act. Alternate descriptions allow us to explain the content of the image, and in
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Typewriter Animation That Handles Anything You Throw at It
20.7.2021
I watched Kevin Powell’s video where he was able to recreate a nice typewriter-like animation using CSS. It’s neat and you should definitely check it out because there are bonafide CSS tricks in there. I’m sure you’ve seen other CSS …
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Images are hard.
19.7.2021
Putting images on websites is incredibly simple, yes? Actually, yes, it is. You use <img> and link it to a valid source in the href attribute and you’re done. Except that there are (counts fingers) 927 things you could (and …
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Practical Use Cases for Scroll-Linked Animations in CSS with Scroll Timelines
19.7.2021
The Scroll-Linked Animations specification is an upcoming and experimental addition to CSS. Using the @scroll-timeline at-rule and animation-timeline property this specification provides you can control the time position of regular CSS Animations by scrolling.
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Dark Mode in One Line of Code!
19.7.2021
Dark mode has seemingly become the desired visual mode for websites and mobile apps alike. Dark mode is easier on the eyes, especially for those like me who like to burn the midnight oil by coding and reading tutorials. Unfortunately not all websites offer dark mode, so it’s up to me...
WordPress Admin Warnings in the Block Editor
16.7.2021
We sent out an email the other week that ultimately had a <video> in the HTML markup. We send the newsletter by creating it here in the WordPress block editor, which is fetched through RSS-to-Mailchimp. Mailchimp dutifully sent it out, …
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