Render Snarky Comments in Comic Sans
25.6.2019
Hilarious idea by Zach Leatherman. To test if a comment is "snarky" or not, there is an npm package up to the task.
On this site, we generally just delete snarky comments, but I still run a WordPress plugin that allows me to "feature" or "bury" comments. It's old but it still works fine in...
Building a Conference Schedule with CSS Grid
24.6.2019
It’s hard to beat the feeling of finding a perfect use for a new technology. You can read every handy primer under the sun and ooh-and-ahh at flashy demos, but the first time you use it on your own project… that’s when things really click.
I gained a new appreciation for CSS Grid when building...
Collective #527
24.6.2019
Writing HTML in HTML * The perils of functional CSS * Shape (Beta) * Screenzy * How to learn D3.js
Collective #527 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
The New Windows Terminal Is Now Available to Download
24.6.2019
In May, Microsoft announced that they would release a brand new Windows Terminal.
You can now download it
Reduced Motion Picture Technique, Take Two
21.6.2019
Did you see that neat technique for using the <picture> element with <source media=""> to serve an animated image (or not) based on a prefers-reduced-motion media query?
After we shared that in our newsletter, we got an interesting reply from Michael Gale:
What about folks who love...
Weekly Platform News: Mozilla’s AV1 Encoder, Samsung One UI CSS, DOM Matches Method
21.6.2019
In this week's weekly roundup, Vimeo and Mozilla partner up on a video encoding format, how to bind instructions to to form fields using aria labels, the DOM has a matching function, and Samsung is working on its own CSS library.
The post Weekly Platform News: Mozilla’s AV1 Encoder, Samsung One...
WDRL — Edition 268: Reshaping, Struggles with Agile, Checklists and The Most Effective Dose of Work.
21.6.2019
Hey,
Imagine you have a Garden. Now, imagine what you can make out of it, if you free yourself from the magainzes that show you the conventions: Look at our garden in June; We’re in the third year since I started with this (it was much smaller in the beginning), it took me a while to get used,...
Hello Subgrid!
20.6.2019
Rachel Andrew’s talk at CSSconf is wonderful because it digs into one of the most exciting changes that’s coming soon to a browser near you: subgrid! That’s a change to the CSS Grid spec that allows for much greater flexibility for our visual designs. Subgrid allows us to set one grid on an entire...
React Starter: JSX Gotchas
20.6.2019
JSX is a very powerful technology. With all new things that we have to learn, there is a bit of a learning curve. Let's talk about some of the gotchas when using JSX. These are some common things t
15 Best Number Fonts for Displaying Numbers
20.6.2019
Website typography has multiple different aspects; displaying numbers on the screen is among the most important ones. There are many use cases when you might want to focus on...
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Managing WordPress Metadata in Gutenberg Using a Sidebar Plugin
20.6.2019
WordPress released their anticipated over to the post editor, nicknamed Gutenberg, which is also referred to as the block editor. It transforms a WordPress post into a collection of blocks that you can add, edit, remove and re-order in the layout. Before the official release, Gutenberg...
Collective #526
20.6.2019
How to Section Your HTML * Darkmode.js * Drop caps & design systems * Servo
Collective #526 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops