Static Site Generators vs. CMS-powered Websites: How to Keep Marketers and Devs Happy
16.9.2021
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Many developers love working with static site generators like Gatsby and Hugo. These powerful yet flexible systems help create beautiful websites using familiar tools like Markdown and React. Nearly every popular modern programming …
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Collective #679
16.9.2021
Doodle Ipsum * W3C Design System * WebGL-Memory * Grainy Gradients * Bonsai
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2021 Scroll Survey Report
16.9.2021
Here’s a common thought and question: how do browsers prioritize what they work on? We get little glimpses of it sometimes. We’re told to “star issues” in bug trackers to signal interest. We’re told to get involved in GitHub threads …
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kbar
15.9.2021
It’s not every day that a new pattern emerges across the web, but I think cmd + k is here to stay. It’s a keyboard shortcut that usually pops open a search UI and it lets you toggle settings on …
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An Intro to JavaScript Proxy
15.9.2021
Have you ever been in a situation where you wish you could have some control over the values in an object or array? Maybe you wanted to prevent certain types of data or even validate the data before storing it …
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On the `dl`
15.9.2021
Blogging about HTML elements¹? *chefs kiss*
Here’s Ben Myers on the (aptly described) “underrated” Definition List (<dl>) element in HTML:
You might have also seen lists of name–value pairs to describe lodging amenities, or to list
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Building a Form in PHP Using DOMDocument
14.9.2021
Learn how to build an HTML form in PHP using DOMDocument — a structured and expressive way to build logical markup.
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Jamstack Conf 2021
14.9.2021
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What? Jamstack Conf! It’s the best! Learn what’s happening and what’s next for this hot ecosystem.
When? October 6–7, 2021
Where? Virtual / online.
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Grainy Gradients
13.9.2021
Browse through Dribbble or Behance, and you’ll find designers using a simple technique to add texture to an image: noise. Adding noise makes otherwise solid colors or smooth gradients, such as shadows, more realistic. But despite designers’ affinity for texture, …
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Social Image Generator + Jetpack
13.9.2021
I feel like my quest to make sure this site had pretty sweet (and automatically-generated) social media images (e.g. Open Graph) came to a close once I found Social Image Generator.
The trajectory there was that I ended up …
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“Just in Time” CSS
10.9.2021
I believe acss.io is the first usage of “Atomic CSS” where the point of it is to be a compiler. You write CSS like this:
<div class="C(#fff) P(20px)"text
</div
And it will generate CSS like:
.C\(\#333\) {
color: #333;
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Fun Times Styling Checkbox States
10.9.2021
We might leave a text input unstyled. We might leave a link unstyled. Even a button. But checkboxes… we don’t leave them alone. That’s why styling checkboxes never gets old.
Although designing checkboxes is not that complicated, we also don’t …
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