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CSS Infinite Slider Flipping Through Polaroid Images
9.12.2022
In the last article, we made a pretty cool little slider (or “carousel” if that’s what you prefer) that rotates in a circular direction. This time we are going to make one that flips through a stack of Polaroid …
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Animated Background Stripes That Transition on Hover
8.12.2022
How often to do you reach for the CSS background-size property? If you’re like me — and probably lots of other front-end folks — then it’s usually when you background-size: cover an image to fill the space of an entire …
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Adding Box Shadows to WordPress Blocks and Elements
7.12.2022
The CSS box-shadow and outline properties gained theme.json support in WordPress 6.1. Let's look at a few examples of how it works in real themes, and what options we have to apply these styles to WordPress blocks and elements.
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CSS is OK, I guess.
6.12.2022
Nothing but ear-to-ear smiles as I was watching this video from @quayjn on YouTube. (No actual name in the byline, though I think it’s Brian Katz if my paper trail is correct).
The best is this Pen you can …
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Does WWW still belong in URLs?
5.12.2022
For years, a small pedantry war has been raging in our address bars. In one corner are brands like Google, Instagram, and Facebook. This group has chosen to redirect example.com to www.example.com. In the opposite corner: …
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CSS Infinite and Circular Rotating Image Slider
2.12.2022
Image sliders (also called carousels) are everywhere. There are a lot of CSS tricks to create the common slider where the images slide from left to right (or the opposite). It’s the same deal with the many JavaScript libraries out …
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Bitcoin Family Says They Are Moving $1M in Crypto to Decentralized Exchanges After FTX Collapse
1.12.2022
In October 2017, Netherlands native Didi Taihuttu and his family sold all their valuable belongings and their house for bitcoin. The decision paid off and the Taihuttu family has traveled all around the world and recently moved to the island of Phuket. On Nov. 30, the 44-year-old Didi Taihuttu told...
Digging Deeper Into Container Style Queries
1.12.2022
I wrote up some early thoughts on container style queries a little while back. It’s still early days. They’re already defined in the CSS Containment Module Level 1 specification (currently in Editor’s Draft status) but there’s still a couple of …
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Using The New Constrained Layout In WordPress Block Themes
30.11.2022
One of the main goals of the WordPress Site Editor (and, yes, that is now the “official” name) is to move basic block styling from CSS to structured JSON. JSON files are machine-readable, which makes it consumable by …
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More Than “Slapping Paint on a Website”
29.11.2022
I’m a sucker for anything about front-end job titles.
Anselm Hannemann:
CSS evolved and we’re beyond the point where everyone can just do it as a side interest. We all can learn it and build amazing stuff with it,
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Newer Things to Know About Good Ol’ HTML Lists
28.11.2022
HTML lists are boring. They don’t do much, so we don’t really think about them despite how widely used they are. And we’re still able to do the same things we’ve always done to customize them, like removing markers, reversing …
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How to talk to family members about crypto this Thanksgiving season
24.11.2022
The Cointelegraph team has come up with a humorous guide for readers to employ with crypto skeptics and curious people while home during the holidays
Apple Messages & Color Contrast
23.11.2022
Well, color me this! I was griping to myself last night about just how gosh dang hard it is to read text messages in Apple Messages. You know, not the blue bubbles that you get when messaging other iPhone users. …
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WordPress Developer Blog
22.11.2022
Well, hey check this out. Looks like there is a brand spankin’ new blog over at WordPress.org all about WordPress development. In the original proposal for the blog, Birgit Pauli-Haak writes:
The Make Core blog has a heavy
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FTX Co-Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Faces US Extradition, Bankruptcy Court Says Top Execs Won’t Be Compensated
22.11.2022
According to a report citing three people familiar with the matter, the former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) may be extradited to the United States for questioning. After it was alleged that SBF transferred $10 billion in customer funds to Alameda Research, the company’s financials show between...
Taming the Cascade With BEM and Modern CSS Selectors
21.11.2022
BEM. Like seemingly all techniques in the world of front-end development, writing CSS in a BEM format can be polarizing. But it is – at least in my Twitter bubble – one of the better-liked CSS methodologies.
Personally, I think …
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Making Static Noise From a Weird CSS Gradient Bug
18.11.2022
What I will be doing here is kind of an experiment to explore tricks that leverage a bug with the way CSS gradients handle sub-pixel rendering to create a static noise effect — like you might see on a TV with no signal.
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Creating a Settings UI for a Custom WordPress Block
17.11.2022
So far, we’ve covered how to work with data from an external API in a custom WordPress block. We walked through the process of fetching that data for use on the front end of a WordPress site, and how to …
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DigitalOcean Welcomes Cloudways to the Family
17.11.2022
Hey folks! If you’ve been keeping up with the latest DigitalOcean news, you might be aware that we recently announced our acquisition of a company called Cloudways. In case you’re curious about what this means, we thought it might …
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Finding Front-End Development Scholarships
16.11.2022
I’m often asked where to learn web development. The answer varies, of course, and we’ve published a few posts on the topic over the years, the most recent of which was Chris taking a stab at different learning paths in …
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