Svelte and Spring Animations
8.1.2021
Spring animations are a wonderful way to make UI interactions come to life. Rather than merely changing a property at a constant rate over a period of time, springs allow us to move things using spring physics, which gives the …
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Creating CSS APIs without JavaScript With the datasette-css-properties plugin
8.1.2021
Simon Willison has a project called Datasette, an open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data. I’m not sure I’m qualified to explain it, but it’s like a tool to make handling data easier and doing more — …
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Theming and Theme Switching with React and styled-components
7.1.2021
I recently had a project with a requirement to support theming on the website. It was a bit of a strange requirement, as the application is mostly used by a handful of administrators. An even bigger surprise was that they …
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Win a Copy of Zell Liew’s Learn JavaScript Course
7.1.2021
Zell Liew is giving away 10 free copies of his Learn JavaScript course, and entering the giveaway is pretty easy: sign up for his newsletter. I’ve personally subscribed for some time now and all I get is as occasional …
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Collective #643
7.1.2021
ASCII Art Playground * The future of CSS * Figma Crash Course * The Devil's Albatross
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Styling Code In and Out of Blocks
6.1.2021
There is a <code> tag in HTML. I literally just used it to wrap that tag in the previous sentence — so meta. It is an inline-by-default element that denotes any sort of code. It has default (user agent) styles …
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Whack-a-Mole: The CSS Edition
6.1.2021
We’ve seen the checkbox hack and how it can be used to build a complete state machine in CSS. Today, we’ll take that line of thought a step further and build a simple game of Whack-A-Mole, where the player needs …
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Some Recent Videos About Websites That Are Pretty Good
5.1.2021
Here’s a little hodgepodge of videos I’ve recently bookmarked (and watched). I couldn’t decide if each one of them should be a separate blog post or if I should do this combined list post thing. If I had a lot …
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Custom Properties as State
5.1.2021
Here’s a fun idea from James Stanley: a CSS file (that presumably updates daily) containing CSS custom properties for “seasonal” colors (e.g. spring is greens, fall is oranges). You’d then use the values to theme your site, knowing that those …
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Creating an Infinite Auto-Scrolling Gallery using WebGL with OGL and GLSL Shaders
5.1.2021
A tutorial explaining how to build an infinite auto-scrolling gallery using WebGL with OGL and GLSL Shaders.
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Creating Arrays in Hasura
4.1.2021
Hasura is one of my favorite ways to create a managed GraphQL API for my applications. I find it easy and straightforward as well as suitable for a wide range of use cases. However, since working with Hasura, I’ve seen …
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The End of Adobe Flash
4.1.2021
I come to bury Flash, not to praise it, writes Matt May in this excellent thread about the end of Adobe Flash. Not so long ago, web designers used Flash to create striking visuals and animations and games. But …
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