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A Complete State Machine Made With HTML Checkboxes and CSS
27.11.2020
State machines are typically expressed on the web in JavaScript and often through the popular XState library. But the concept of a state machine is adaptable to just about any language, including, amazingly, HTML and CSS. In this article, we’re going to do exactly that. I recently built a website...
Bitcoin and Altcoins Respond To Key Uptrend Support
27.11.2020
Bitcoin price failed to recover above the USD 17,350 and USD 17,500 resistance levels. BTC is showing a few negative signs, but it is still well above the USD 16,500 and USD 16,250 support levels. The price is currently (13:00 UTC) trading around USD 17,000 and attempting upside towards...
Chainlink Price Crosses Above $12.5 and Reclaims Lost Support
27.11.2020
Chainlink, one of the lucrative projects amongst the top 10 coins of the global crypto market, is seen pulling back just like any other altcoin of the market, including the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization—Bitcoin. The entire crypto market is seen losing the winning streak, including...
China’s national blockchain project adds Polkadot support
26.11.2020
The Blockchain Service Network integrates three more major blockchains
Exploring What the Details and Summary Elements Can Do
26.11.2020
We’ve mentioned before just how great the <details> and <summary> elements are. They’re great for quickly making accordions that are accessible to touch, mouse, and keyboard input:
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<details> and <summary> can even be used to play/pause gifs!...
Three Things You Didn’t Know About AVIF
26.11.2020
AVIF, the file format based on the AV1 video codec, is the latest addition to the next-gen image formats. Early reports and comparisons show good results compared to JPEG and WebP. However, even if browser support is good, AVIF is still on the bleeding edge in regards to encoding and decoding....
Tailwind versus BEM
25.11.2020
Some really refreshing technological comparison writing from Eric Bailey. Like, ya know, everything in life, we don’t have to hate or love everything. Baby bear thinking, I like to say. There are benefits and drawbacks. Every single bullet point here is well-considered and valid. I really...
Considerations for Making a CSS Framework
25.11.2020
Around eight months ago, I started building a framework which would eventually go on to become Halfmoon. I made a post on this very website announcing the launch of the very first version. Halfmoon has been billed as a Bootstrap alternative with a built-in dark mode feature, that is especially good...
Rendering Spectrum
25.11.2020
Here are the big categories of rendering websites:
Client: ship a <div id="root"></div> and let a JavaScript template render all of it.
Static: pre-render all the HTML.
Server: let a live server process requests and generate the HTML response.
They are not mutually exclusive....
How to Load Fonts in a Way That Fights FOUT and Makes Lighthouse Happy
24.11.2020
A web font workflow is simple, right? Choose a few nice-looking web-ready fonts, get the HTML or CSS code snippet, plop it in the project, and check if they display properly. People do this with Google Fonts a zillion times a day, dropping its <link> tag into the <head>.
Let’s...
The Core Web Vitals hype train
24.11.2020
Some baby bear thinking from Katie Sylor-Miller:
my excitement for Core Web Vitals is tempered with a healthy skepticism. I’m not yet convinced that Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), First Input Delay (FID), and Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) are the right metrics that all sites should...
Creating UI Components in SVG
24.11.2020
I’m thoroughly convinced that SVG unlocks a whole entire world of building interfaces on the web. It might seem daunting to learn SVG at first, but you have a spec that was designed to create shapes and yet, still has elements, like text, links, and aria labels available to you. You can accomplish...
How to Create a Timeline Task List Component Using SVG
24.11.2020
I’m thoroughly convinced that SVG unlocks a whole entire world of building interfaces on the web. It might seem daunting to learn SVG at first, but you have a spec that was designed to create shapes and yet, still has elements, like text, links, and aria labels available to you. You can accomplish...
Graphery SVG
24.11.2020
I’ve compared SVG and Canvas before. If you’re trying to decide between them, read that. I’d say the #1 difference between them is vector (SVG) versus raster (Canvas). But the #2 difference is how you work with them. SVG is declarative, as in, literal elements that express what they are through...
DRY-ing up styled-components
23.11.2020
I like working with styled-components. They allow you write CSS in your JavaScript, keeping your CSS in very close proximity to your JavaScript for a single component. As a front-end developer who loves to dissect a web page and break it down into reusable components, the idea of styled-components...
Bitcoin price dips below $18K — Time to watch these 'whale cluster' support zones
22.11.2020
Bitcoin price has lost the $18,000 support level but several whale clusters below suggest that the dip will get aggressively bought up
What’s Missing from CSS?
21.11.2020
The survey results from the State of CSS aren’t out yet, but they made this landing page that randomly shows you what one person wrote to answer that question. Just clicking the reload button a bunch, I get the sense that the top answers are:
Container Queries
Parent...
How You Might Build a Modern Day Webring
20.11.2020
I’m sure different people picture different things when they think about webrings, so let me clarify what I picture. I see an element on a website that:
Signifies this site is part of a webring
Allows you to move to the next or previous site of the webring
Maybe has other functionality like...
German Finance Minister Says He Does Not Support Private Cryptos: Report
20.11.2020
Olaf Scholz said banks need to adapt for a digital world but seemed to rule out private digital currencies from that future
A Dynamically-Sized Sticky Sidebar with HTML and CSS
20.11.2020
Creating page content that sticks to the viewport as you scroll, something like a jump-to-anchor menu or section headings, has never been easier. Throw a position: sticky into your CSS ruleset, set the directional offset (e.g. top: 0) and you’re ready to impress your teammates with minimal effort....