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How to Add Commas Between a List of Items Dynamically with CSS
12.1.2021
Imagine you have a list of items. Say, fruit: Banana, Apple, Orange, Pear, Nectarine
We could put those commas (,) in the HTML, but let’s look at how we could do that in CSS instead, giving us an extra level …
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Building Flexible Components With Transparency
12.1.2021
Good thinking from Paul Herbert on the Cloudfour blog about colorizing a component. You might look at a design comp and see a card component with a header background of #dddddd, content background of #ffffff, on an overall …
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Bakkt has no plans to support XRP, says CEO
12.1.2021
Bakkt's CEO did not mention whether the company decided to stay away from XRP due to Ripple’s ongoing legal issues
Careful When Changing the Display of `summary`
12.1.2021
I got a very helpful bug report the other day (thanks Kilian!) about the <details> element in a blog post of mine not showing the default ▶ icon, and thus looking rather like any ol’ random <p>.
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Flash’s Web Tech Legacy
11.1.2021
Tiffany B. Brown on how Flash paved the way for some things we might think of as fairly modern web technologies:
Flash wasn’t just good for playing multimedia. It was also good for manipulating it. Using ActionScript, you could pan
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Animating with Lottie
11.1.2021
I believe animation on the web is not only fun, but engaging in such a way that it has converted site visitors into customers. Think of the “Like” button on Twitter. When you “like” a tweet, tiny colorful bubbles …
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CSS Snapshot 2020
11.1.2021
I think it’s great that the CSS Working Group does these. It’s like planting a flag in the ground saying this is what CSS looks like at this specific point in time. They do specifically say it’s not for …
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Bitcoin and Altcoins Struggle to Recover, Key Uptrend Support Intact
11.1.2021
After a sharp downside correction, bitcoin price found support above USD 32,500. BTC started a fresh recovery and climbed above USD 34,000 before correcting lower again. It is currently (13:00 UTC) showing positive signs, but it could face hurdles near USD 35,000 and USD 35,500.
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Painters Tape and Fault Tolerance
9.1.2021
Snipping the top bit of Nicholas C. Zakas’s Top of the Month newsletter (go sign up!), with permission.
One of my favorite things in the world is painters tape (also called masking tape). It seems like something silly: some tape …
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`aspect-ratio` is going to deprecate FitVids
8.1.2021
Jen was just tweetin’ about how the latest Safari Technical Preview has aspect-ratio. Looks like Chrome and Firefox both have it behind a flag, so with Safari joining the party, we’ll all have it soon.
I played with it …
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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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Stratis Brings Blockchain as a Service to All Businesses via its C# Native Platform
7.1.2021
PRESS RELEASE. 7th January 2021, London, United Kingdom – Stratis was created for a simple purpose – to provide enterprises with blockchain as a service (BaaS) solutions, designed to implement complex blockchain architecture within mainstream coding languages, used by everyday companies...
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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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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UK Exchange CoinCorner Adds Bitcoin Lightning Network Support
6.1.2021
Exchange support for Bitcoin's Lightning Network is growing as U.K.-based CoinCorner's integration of the scaling solution goes live
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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