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WDRL — Edition 256: Safari 12.1, Chrome 72, PHP 7 performance, Sourcemaps in production and Maintaining large JavaScript codebases.
1.2.2019
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We need to act now to save our human living. It doesn’t matter that others don’t care, we as individuals need to make sure that we do everything we can to prevent our climate to go over into high-fever state (which is about 10 years away). It upon us to show companies that they need to...
WDRL — Edition 255: CSS Grid Flex-Columns, Lost Screen Time, Wait and UX Personalization.
25.1.2019
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The only constant in life is change, they say. And it’s true even if we think nothing changes in life. It’s all only how you perceive things, how you observe things and whether you notice the change or not. In tech, it’s easy, just read a newsletter like this one and see how much changes...
WDRL — Edition 254: Better To Top Buttons, Competing in Jobs, Houdini And Accomplishing More.
18.1.2019
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What’s better to start the new year with new experiments? Today I figured it was time to rethink JavaScript tooling in one of my projects. And since we wrote everything in plain ECMAScript modules already, I thought it would be easy to serve them natively now and remove all the build...
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...
WDRL — Edition 253: Welcome back to a new year with Jank-Free Images, Styled Web Components, Human Branding and Code-Splitting
11.1.2019
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I’m happy to be back with a new edition of my Web Development Reading List in 2019. I’m grateful for all your ongoing givings to support my work and it makes me happy to hear that so many people find this resource very helpful. So if you enjoy reading it, share it with people you know, give...
[aktualita] Digitální knihovna Internet Archive žádá o příspěvky na provoz, přijímá i kryptoměny
27.12.2018
Nezisková digitální knihovna Internet Archive tradičně s koncem roku žádá o příspěvky na svou činnost. Služba ukládá historickou podobu webových stráne k a poskytuje přístup k digitálním sbírkám zdarma dostupných filmů, knih, videoher či aplikací. TIP: Internet Archive: zahrajte si osmibitové...
WDRL — Edition 252: End of the year WDRL, have a great end and see you next year
14.12.2018
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it’s the last edition of this year and I’m pretty stoked what this year brought for us, what happened and how the web evolved. Let’s recap that and think what each of us learned this year, what was the most useful feature, API, library we used this year and how we personally changed. I’ve...
Web Designs That Feel Like Ancient History, but Are More Recent Than You Think
12.12.2018
Flickr announced not long ago that they are limiting free accounts to 1,000 photos. I don't particularly mind that (because it seems like sound business sense), although it is a bit sad that a ton of photos will be nuked from the internet. I imagine the Internet Archive will swoop in and get most...
WDRL — Edition 251: Clear Site Data, Edge will use Chromium, Register you SPA as Share Target, And Fix Things Later
7.12.2018
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The web gets more complicated every week. With each new feature added to browsers, being explored by security reasearchers and other things, it gets harder for developers to grasp all that. Don’t get me wrong — it’s not that I dislike all the new features, I really like many of them. But...
WDRL — Edition 250: Efficient Servers, Doka, Permission Blocking, Payment Security and Thinking in Triplicate UX
30.11.2018
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Everyone here has different thoughts on Open Source. It’s a topic widely discussed between developers and it causes a lot of trouble. Just recently again, we faced a major security incident in a popular npm package. It happened because the initial author of the free and open source package...
WDRL — Edition 249: Better design briefs, mental models, practical crypto and how IT radicalized the world.
23.11.2018
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How much does design affect the perception of our product and the users who see this? To me it’s getting clearer that design makes all the difference and that unifying designs to a standard model like the Google Material Design Kit doesn’t work well. By using it, you of course get a decent...
WDRL — Edition 248: Performance, Building Color Palettes, JIT-Design, XSSStrike, And Maker to Manager.
19.11.2018
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Plans are plans but sometimes reality has something different for us. I hadn’t planned to skip two weeks but after an exhausting week followed a week of sickness.
What does career change mean? Is it about climbing up a ladder, is it changing the purpose of your work? There’s a common...
WDRL — Edition 247: The Mixed Faces of Technology, of Humans, of Wilderness.
2.11.2018
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This week shows all the interesting sides of technology: We’re learning about challenges with Service Workers, how to properly build error pages that are not frustrating for users, how too simple implementations by developers can lead to dangerous security loops that could influence politics...
WDRL — Edition 246: Custom Elements News, React lazy Method, The `prefers-color-scheme` Media Query And Human Customer Support
26.10.2018
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The web is fascinating. Just when you think there’s not much news happening right now you’re proved wrong. This week brings massive news for how we can work with Custom Elements given the very good fresh support in Firefox (along with Chrome which has support since a while already) and some...
WDRL — Edition 245: Chrome 70, Postgres 11, Cognitive Differences And Being Tracked Anyway
19.10.2018
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Autumn has fully arrived in Germany now and while I’m writing this outside of the window it’s cold and foggy. And coincidentally, I’ve been knocked down by some cold and was ill this week. So I’m going to keep this short and direct you to the links this week:
News
Chrome 70 is out...
WDRL — Edition 244: Flexbox Use Cases, JavaScript’s Bind Operator and what we can do against climate change
12.10.2018
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This week I’ll dedicate the introduction to our environment and what each of us can do to protect it. With the latest studies and official reports out this week, it seems that in order to avoid an irreversible climate change on planet earth we need to act drastically within the next...
WDRL — Edition 243: Windows Edge 18, Developing Websites for Apple Watch, Free Fonts, and Being Behind Work.
5.10.2018
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this morning I spent about one and a half hours in the forest nearby. Although it’s rare that I manage to go out of my door and into nature so early, every time I do it is amazing. Nature can boost your mind, your body. Being grounded in forest, just with nature and maybe some animals around...
WDRL — Edition 242: Safari 12, IPFS Integrity, E-Waste, Addictive UX and Idle Performance
29.9.2018
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welcome back again. I’m at the end of my vacation now and collected a lot of very interesting articles over the past two weeks that took me quite a while to digest. Most importantly, I learned that taking vacation regularly is an important thing for regaining motivation for work.
Here’s...
WDRL — Edition 241: Doodles, Chrome 70, Print Link Lists, JavaScript == CO2, and Data Scientists
14.9.2018
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it’s an interesting concept to compare JavaScript with CO2 and yet a very valid one. Alex Russel who works for the Chrome team and has a lot of insights into the current state of the web says that using too much JavaScript or using it exclusively (without progressive enhancement / graceful...
WDRL — Edition 237: HTTP Not Secure in Chrome, PWA Retrospective, Page Lifecycle API, And Plastic Roads
27.7.2018
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My Twitter timeline sometimes results in an interesting mix between various topics from the tech industry, politics and human or environmental matters. Today I had such a moment when I scrolled and two tweets made a great connection without the authors knowing about it. First, I read that...