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Trailing Slashes on URLs: Contentious or Settled?
25.2.2022
A fun deep dive from Zach. Do you have an opinion on which you should use?
1) https://website.com/foo/
2) https://websites.com/foo
The first option has a “trailing slash.” The second does not.
I’ve always preferred this thinking: you use a trailing …
Trailing Slashes...
When to Avoid the text-decoration Shorthand Property
25.2.2022
In my recent article about CSS underline bugs in Chrome, I discussed text-decoration-thickness and text-underline-offset, two relatively new and widely-supported CSS properties that give us more control over the styling of underlines.
Let me demonstrate the usefulness of …
When to Avoid...
Manuel Matuzovic’s CSS Specificity Demo
25.2.2022
If you’re looking for a primer on CSS specificity, we’ve got that. And if you’re trying to get ahead of the game, you should be aware of CSS Cascade Layers as well.
One of the ways to help get …
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My white whale: A use case for will-change
24.2.2022
 Nic Chan:
[…] the will-change property landed in major browsers in August 2015, and I’ve been on the lookout for when to use it ever since. It might seem self-evident to apply it to commonly animated properties such
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My white whale: A use case for will-change...
Explain the First 10 Lines of Twitter’s Source Code to Me
24.2.2022
For the past few weeks, I’ve been hiring for a senior full-stack JavaScript engineer at my rental furniture company, Pabio. Since we’re a remote team, we conduct our interviews on Zoom, and I’ve observed that some developers are not …
Explain the First 10 Lines of Twitter’s Source Code...
Superior Image Optimization: An Ideal Solution Using Gatsby & ImageEngine
24.2.2022
(This is a sponsored post.)
In recent years, the Jamstack methodology for building websites has become increasingly popular. Performance, scalable, and secure, it’s easy to see why it’s becoming an attractive way to build websites for developers.
GatsbyJS is …
Superior Image Optimization:...
Collective #700
24.2.2022
A Complete Guide to CSS Cascade Layers * Painting SVG Paths with Masks * MonoLisa * Shaders and Gradients
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CSS Database Queries? Sure We Can!
23.2.2022
Kinda silly sounding, isn’t it? CSS database queries. But, hey, CSS is capable of talking to other languages in the sense that it can set the values of things that they can read. Plus, CSS can request other files, and …
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5 Accessibility Quick Wins You Can Implement Today
23.2.2022
Let’s face it: building an AA or AAA-accessible product can be quite daunting. Luckily, having an accessible product isn’t all-or-nothing. Even seemingly small improvements can have nice quality of life benefits for many people.
In that spirit, here are five …
5 Accessibility Quick Wins...
Before I go: When it comes to complaining about web browsers
22.2.2022
That’s a damn one-two punch from Dave. He goes for the ultimate clickbait title¹, then follows up with a pile of epic advice for us all. If you want web browsers to get better, listen up:
Complaining on
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Reliably Send an HTTP Request as a User Leaves a Page
22.2.2022
On several occasions, I’ve needed to send off an HTTP request with some data to log when a user does something like navigate to a different page or submit a form. Consider this contrived example of sending some information to …
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A Complete Guide to CSS Cascade Layers
21.2.2022
This is your complete guide to CSS cascade layers, a CSS feature that allows us to define explicit contained layers of specificity, so that we have full control over which styles take priority in a project without relying on specificity …
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WDRL — Edition 296: 15 years a freelancer, work-life productivity and CSS
21.2.2022
Hey,
This year marks fifteen years of freelancing in my life. That’s 100% of my work life and nearly half the time I live on this world. So I wrote something down on it on my blog. WDRL itself will turn 10 next year already which amazes me when I think about it. I want to say thank you to all...
Detect Dark Mode Preference with JavaScript
21.2.2022
Seemingly every website, dapp, and app offers a dark mode preference, and thank goodness. Dark mode is especially useful when I’m doing late night coding, or even worse, trading into altcoins. I’m presently working on implementing a dark theme on MetaMask and it got me to thinking:...
Comparing Node JavaScript to JavaScript in the Browser
18.2.2022
Being able to understand Node continues to be an important skill if you’re a front-end developer. Deno has arrived as another way to run JavaScript outside the browser, but the huge ecosystem of tools and software built with Node mean …
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(Jay Freestone’s) Front-End Predictions for 2022
18.2.2022
I linked to Jay’s front-end predictions last year and I think they panned out pretty well. I think he’s got a bit of a knack for that wide-scope look at front-end, including tooling and architecture, as well as browser tech. …
(Jay Freestone’s) Front-End Predictions for 2022...
Collective #699
17.2.2022
Offscreen Canvas * The State of JS 2021 * gsap-video-export * Hello, CSS Cascade Layers
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Subsetting Font Awesome to Improve Performance
17.2.2022
Font Awesome is an incredibly popular icon library. Unfortunately, it’s somewhat easy to use in a way that results in less-than-ideal performance. By subsetting Font Awesome, we can remove any unused glyphs from the font files it provides. This will …
Subsetting Font Awesome to Improve...
Top Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Netlify CLI
17.2.2022
(This is a sponsored post.)
First things first, if you didn’t know Netlify had a CLI, they do.  One of my favorite things about it running the command netlify dev on nearly any static-site generator project is seeing it …
Top Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Netlify...
Add-to-Calendar Button UI Widget
17.2.2022
A useful little UI widget thingy here from Jens Kuerschner. Click the add-to-calendar button, get a list of calendar apps, the user selects which one they actually use, and they get what they need for that calendar. Could be a …
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