Recursive Array.flat
17.5.2019
There was much talk about Array.prototype.flat during its early stages, starting with the name alone. Many developers preferred the name flatten but the spec differed from MooTools’ implementation. MooTools would recursively flatten an array but the new, official flat implementation was only...
Weekly news: PWA Issue on iOS, Performance Culture, Anti-Tracking in Browsers
17.5.2019
In this week's news: resolving an issue when restarting progressive web apps in iOS, why The Telegraph now vets all scripts before they make it to their codebase, and Microsoft plans to add tracking prevention to the Edge browser.
The post Weekly news: PWA Issue on iOS, Performance Culture...
WDRL — Edition 265: Dark Mode, Doing Nothing, Web Share, 1 Trillion Trees, And Productivity & Promises.
17.5.2019
Hey,
I was at the amazing beyondtellerrand conference this week again and every single time I come home and try to understand our industry, and our society better. There’s so much input and inspiration around, I see a lot of friends and people I see only once per year, I hear great talks. People...
CSS Scan: The Fastest Way to Inspect and Copy CSS
17.5.2019
CSS Scan is a super cool tool I've just learned about from Chris Nwamba. It allows you to inspect and copy CSS
React Starter: Adding Sass to Create React App Applications
17.5.2019
Adding Sass is one of the first things most developers do when starting an application. Writing in plain CSS can be done, but Sas
Collective #516
16.5.2019
Subgrid * Ola * PHP Insights * What the Fr(action)? * HandUI * Functional-ish JavaScript
Collective #516 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Iterating a React Design with Styled Components
16.5.2019
In a perfect world, our projects would have unlimited resources and time. Our teams would begin coding with well thought out and highly refined UX designs. There would be consensus among developers about the best way to approach styling. There’d be one or more CSS gurus on the team who could ensure...
Evergreen Googlebot
16.5.2019
I've heard people say that the #1 most exciting and important thing that came out of Google I/O this year was the evergreen Googlebot:
Today, we are happy to announce that Googlebot now runs the latest Chromium rendering engine (74 at the time of this post) when rendering pages for Search. Moving...
Using Jetpack to Accelerate WordPress Development
16.5.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
[Geoff:] I've built a fair number of WordPress sites in my day. It's been my go-to since the 2.x-ish days because it works for any site, big or small. That's the sort of solution and flexibility you like to have as a freelancer.
Boy, I wish I had Jetpack available...
Google Fonts Now Supports font-display!
16.5.2019
font-display is a CSS feature that allows us to control how we load fonts.
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Animated Image Columns
16.5.2019
An experimental web layout where several image columns get animated out when a menu item is clicked.
Animated Image Columns was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
A Deep Dive into Native Lazy-Loading for Images and Frames
15.5.2019
Today's websites are packed with heavy media assets like images and videos. Images make up around 50% of an average website's traffic. Many of them, however, are never shown to a user because they're placed way below the fold.
What’s this thing about images being lazy, you ask? Lazy-loading...