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Stackbit
12.3.2019
This is not a sponsored post. I requested a beta access for this site called Stackbit a while back, got my invite the other day, and thought it was a darn fine idea that's relevant to us web nerds — particularly those of us who spin up a lot of JAMstack sites.
I'm a big fan of the whole idea...
Downsides of Smooth Scrolling
11.3.2019
Smooth scrolling has gotten a lot easier. If you want it all the time on your page, and you are happy letting the browser deal with the duration for you, it's a single line of CSS:
html {
scroll-behavior: smooth;
}
I tried this on version 17 of this site, and it was the second most-hated thing...
Extending Google Analytics on CSS-Tricks with Custom Dimensions
11.3.2019
The idea for this article sparked when Chris wrote this in Thank You (2018 Edition):
I almost wish our URLs had years in them because I still don't have a way to scope analytic data to only show me data from content published this year. I can see the most popular stuff from the year, but that's...
React’s Experimental Suspense API Will Rock for Fallback UI During Data Fetches
2.2.2019
Most web applications built today receive data from an API. When fetching that data, we have to take certain situations into consideration where the data might not have been received. Perhaps it was a lost connection. Maybe it was the endpoint was changed. Who knows. Whatever the issue, it's...
An Overview of the Most Exciting Proposals for the Web Platform Related to Web Components
30.1.2019
As much as I like frameworks, I'm also a big fan of the native web platform, especially web components.
I look forward to the times when the implementation will be powerful eno
Visual Studio Code Starter: MetaGo
26.1.2019
I'm a big believer in spending time to learn tools to make us more efficient in our code editors. VS Code is amazing because of all the productivity fea
Visual Studio Code Starter: MetaGo
26.1.2019
I'm a big believer in spending time to learn tools to make us more efficient in our code editors. VS Code is amazing because of all the productivity fea
Visual Studio Code Starter: MetaGo
26.1.2019
I'm a big believer in spending time to learn tools to make us more efficient in our code editors. VS Code is amazing because of all the productivity fea
Firefox DevTools WebConsole 2018 retrospective
21.1.2019
Here’s a wonderful post by Nicolas Chevobbe on what the Firefox DevTools team was up to last year. What strikes me is how many improvements they shipped — from big visual design improvements to tiny usability fixes that help us make sure our code works as we expect it to in the console....
Design v17
14.1.2019
We rolled out a new site design on January 1! This is the 17th version of CSS-Tricks if you can believe that. The versions tend to evolve a decent amount beyond the initial launch, but we archive screenshots on this design history page. Like I said in our 2018 thank you post:
This is easily...
A Look Back at 2018: Round-up of Codrops Resources
31.12.2018
Another year has passed! This is a collection of all Codrops resources of 2018. A big 'thank you' to all our readers!
A Look Back at 2018: Round-up of Codrops Resources was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
Google Fonts and font-display
19.12.2018
The font-display descriptor in @font-face blocks is really great. It goes a long way, all by itself, for improving the perceived performance of web font loading. Loading web fonts is tricky stuff and having a tool like this that works as well as it does is a big deal for the web.
It's such a...
Scotch.io 2018 Year in Review: A Brutally Honest Look
19.12.2018
Another year down in the books! This was a big year for me personally since I will be turning 30 on January 7. Lats year in my 20s. Had to make it count!
I'd like to take a look back at 2018
Write React Faster w/ Simple React Snippets
10.12.2018
I'm a big fan of speeding up every part of your development. If you shave off seconds here and there multiple times a day, you'll save a ton of time over the course of a year.
This involves
Pagely Review: Expensive Yet Impressive Managed WordPress Hosting For Big Businesses
3.12.2018
Finding the right web host for a big business website is much more difficult than finding a hosting platform to make a blog or a personal website. When you’re...
The post Pagely Review: Expensive Yet Impressive Managed WordPress Hosting For Big Businesses appeared first on Onextrapixel
Your Body Text is Too Small
21.7.2018
Several years ago, there was a big push by designers to increase the font-size of websites and I feel like we’re living in another era of accessibility improvements where a fresh batch of designers are pushing for even larger text sizing today. Take this post by Christian Miller, for example, where...
WDRL — Edition 236: Dream Big But Stay Small; Simple, Correct, Fast; And 4 Days Per Week Work.
20.7.2018
Hey,
Building technology and software has become a very responsible job. We not only need to think about building an inclusive solution but also need to incorporate ethics, reliability and security. As developers we need to stand up for these factors and sometimes even need to stop other from...
The Four Big Ways Jetpack Helps with Image Performance
19.6.2018
We've been working with Jetpack around here as a sponsor. It's a great match because as someone with a bunch of self-hosted WordPress sites, Jetpack is one of those no-brainer plugins for me. Jetpack can do a ton of good things for any site in a variety of very different ways. Here's one way...
Uppy File Uploading
11.6.2018
One of the big tasks I was charged with at my first job was setting up a system by which any customer or potential customer (aka anonymous user) could upload PDF and image files. I had loads of constraints to deal with: browser support, server settings, variance in user tech knowledge, etc....
Up 24%: Bytecoin Only Gainer In Bad Month for Big Cryptos
1.6.2018
While most top-25 cryptocurrencies took a hit last month, lesser-known cryptocurrency bytecoin scored decent gains