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Help Users Accomplish What They Came For
9.12.2021
From my perspective, the question of what one thing we can do to make a website better is not a technical one. The more I browse the internet, the more I realize that the biggest issue with a lot of …
Berkshire’s Charlie Munger Praises China for Banning Crypto — Wishes Crypto Had Never Been Invented
5.12.2021
Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s right-hand man, says China did the right thing to “ban” cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin. He wishes that cryptocurrencies had never been invented, emphasizing that he will not participate in the crypto boom....
Exactly What You Want
1.12.2021
What is one thing people can do to make their website better?
Exactly what you want to build!
Ask yourself:
What drew you to development in the beginning?Is there an experimental API that you’ve been wanting to try out?…
On User Tracking and Industry Standards on Privacy
22.11.2021
Inspired by Eva PenzeyMoog’s new book, Jeremy highlights the widespread user tracking situation in this industry:
There was a line that really stood out to me:
The idea that it’s alright to do whatever unethical thing is currently the
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Easy Dark Mode (and Multiple Color Themes!) in React
11.11.2021
I was working on a large React application for a startup, and aside from just wanting some good strategies to keep our styles organized, I wanted to give this whole “dark mode” thing a shot. With the huge ecosystem around …
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VideoPress for WordPress
9.11.2021
(This is a sponsored post.)
The leade here is that VideoPress makes video on WordPress way better. VideoPress is a part of Jetpack. And now, if VideoPress is the only thing you care about from the Jetpack world, you …
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Green means go: 5 spectacular altcoin rallies with one thing in common
6.11.2021
Serendipity is "a fortunate discovery or event when things come together just perfectly." You can't plan for it... or can you?
enterkeyhint
5.11.2021
I only just recently learned the enterkeyhint attribute on form inputs was a thing! It seems like kind of a big deal to me, as crafting HTML form markup is a decent slice of a front-end developer’s life, and this …
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Mario Kart NFT Idea Is The Worst Thing I Have Ever Read
1.11.2021
Bloomberg Wealth has a major feature up today called “Into the Metaverse: Where Crypto, Gaming and Capitalism Collide”. It is as critical and as informative as you’d guess something coming from a finance site would be, but there’s one section in particular that will haunt me, and now you, for...
CSS-ing Candy Ghost Buttons
1.11.2021
Recently, while looking for some ideas on what to code as I have zero artistic sense so the only thing I can do is find pretty things that other people have come up with and remake them with clean and …
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How Halloween Became a Thing in Japan
28.10.2021
When I first came to Japan in 2001, Halloween was not a thing. At all. Well, it was if you were a foreigner, but Japanese people just didn’t really get it.Read more
NFTs ‘on Bitcoin’: Yes, That’s a Thing!
23.10.2021
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are all the rage right now. From CryptoPunks to Bored Apes, millions in crypto are exchanging hands for pixel art, tokenized memes, and crypto collectibles.
For the most part, the action takes place on the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain, which has made some hardcore...
What if… you could use Visual Studio Code as the editor of in-browser Developer Tools?
22.10.2021
It’s not uncommon for my front-end workflow to go something like this:
Work on thing.
See that thing in an automatically refreshed browser.
See something wrong with that thing.
Inspect and correct the thing in DevTools.
Apply the correct code
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Less Absolute Positioning With Modern CSS
13.10.2021
Ahmad Shadeed blogs the sentiment that we might not need to lean on position: absolute as much as we might have in the past. For one thing: stacking elements. For example, if you have a stack of elements that should …
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ShopTalk Goes Video
4.10.2021
Dave and I slapped up a little videos section of the ShopTalk website. Twelve so far! They are short-ish, between 10-20 minutes, each focused on one fairly specific thing. We’re kinda just dipping our toes here — we don’t …
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Gay Road Trip RPGs Are A Thing Now, And I'm Into It
30.9.2021
Not many hero’s journey games lean into the journey part occurring from the back seat of a convertible, where you talk about how you had a crush on your best friend while their partner drives, but then, Get in the Car, Loser! isn’t afraid to get awkward, while also gaying up the place with all...
Systems for z-index
24.9.2021
Say you have a z-index bug. Something is being covered up by something else. In my experience, a typical solution is to put position: relative on the thing so z-index works in the first place, and maybe rejigger the z-index…
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Comparing Methods for Appending and Inserting With JavaScript
24.9.2021
Let’s say we want to add something to a webpage after the initial load. JavaScript gives us a variety of tools. Perhaps you’ve used some of them, like append, appendChild, insertAdjacentHTML, or innerHTML.
The difficult thing …
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Proposal for CSS @when
22.9.2021
CSS is on a tear lately. Again, I’ve heard of a brand new thing I’ve never seen before, and again it’s via Miriam: CSS Conditionals.
???? CSSWG just resolved to adopt @tabatkins when/else proposal into the next level of CSS
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Cascade Layers?
21.9.2021
There is a new thing coming in CSS: @layer. As with all new things, it takes time to really wrap your head around it. And despite me tapping at my keyboard about it, full disclosure, I’m not sure my …
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