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Modern CSS Solutions for Old CSS Problems
11.5.2020
This is a hell of a series by Stephanie Eckles. It’s a real pleasure watching CSS evolve and solve problems in clear and elegant ways.
Just today I ran across this little jab at CSS in a StackOverflow answer from 2013.
This particular jab was about CSS lacking a way to pause between...
10 Interesting JavaScript and CSS Libraries for May 2020
11.5.2020
A collection of our favorite web dev resources for the month of May, featuring useful JS tools, React components, and more!
Chromium lands Flexbox gap
9.5.2020
I mentioned this the other day via Michelle Barker’s coverage, but here I’ll link to the official announcement. The main thing is that we’ll be getting gap with flexbox, which means:
.flex-parent {
display: flex;
gap: 1rem;
}
.flex-child {
flex: 1;
}
That’s excellent...
Phuoc Nguyen’s One Page Wonders
2.5.2020
I keep running across these super useful one page sites, and they keep being by the same person! Like this one with over 100 vanilla JavaScript DOM manipulation recipes, this similar one full of one-liners, and this one with loads of layouts. For that last one, making 91 icons for all those design...
@property
25.4.2020
The @property is totally new to me, but I see it’s headed to Chrome, so I suppose it’s good to know about!
There is a draft spec and an “intent to ship” document. The code from that document shows:
@property --my-property {
syntax: "<color";
initial-value: green;
...
10 Interesting JavaScript and CSS Libraries for April 2020
13.4.2020
Our compilation for the month of April comes packed with awesome new web dev tools, including lots of Bootstrap goodies, a new testing framework, and more!
Top Ripple Dev Publishes Method to Increase Privacy Using ‘Blinded Tags’
2.4.2020
Nik Bougalis, the software engineer that leads the C++ team at Ripple, published a proposed method for using “blinded tags” to heighten privacy on the XRP ledger
Ethereum Founder Tells Bitcoin Dev: BTC Wasn’t Always ‘Digital Gold’
2.4.2020
Ethereum founder, Vitalik Buterin, got into a Twitter spat with a Bitcoin developer when he told him the Bitcoin narrative had changed from ‘P2P cash’ to ‘digital gold’
An Annotated Docker Config for Front-End Web Development
2.4.2020
Andrew Welch sings the praises of using Docker containers for local dev environments:
Here are the advantages of Docker for me:
• Each application has exactly the environment it needs to run, including specific versions of any of the plumbing needed to get it to work (PHP, MySQL...
gqless
30.3.2020
This is so cool. I mean, GraphQL is already cool. It’s very satisfying to write an understandable-looking query for whatever you want and then use that data in templates.
But what if you didn’t have to write the query at all? What if you just wrote the templates pretending you already...
More New Bitcoin Dev Funds Needed, Key Funding Players Revealed - Study
30.3.2020
The outlook for Bitcoin (BTC) development is generally positive, and although funding and training incentives “could improve,” funding is “far more distributed than it has been in the past,” per a new report.
The report, compiled by BitMEX, confirmed many of the findings of Cryptonews.com’s...
Emergency Website Kit
27.3.2020
Here’s an outstanding idea from Max Böck. He’s created a boilerplate project for building websites that fit within a single HTTP request. This is extremely important for websites that contain critical information for public safety. As Max writes:
In cases of emergency, many organizations need...
CSS Can Influence Screenreaders
23.3.2020
Ben Myers covers some clear examples of where CSS totally changes what some screen readers announce. For example, some screenreader will see text-transform: uppercase; on a button label that says "Add" and read it like an abbreviation, "A.D.D."
These cases of CSS messing with our screenreader...
CSS2JS
20.3.2020
To add inline styles on an element in JSX, you have to do it in this object syntax, like:
<div style={{
fontSize: 16,
marginBottom: "1rem"
}}Content
</div
That might look a little weird to us folks who are so used to the CSS syntax, where it is font-size (not fontSize), margin-bottom...
Caitlin Long’s Wyoming Crypto Bank Announces C-Suite, Including Bitcoin Core Dev
18.3.2020
On Tuesday, Avanti Financial Group announced five new executive hires, including bitcoin core developer Bryan Bishop and Figure Technology’s Zev Shimko
10 Interesting JavaScript and CSS Libraries for March 2020
10.3.2020
New JavaScript tools from the Facebook developers team, an excellent Electron starter kit. and more in our web dev resources compilation for March!
Geoff’s Redesign Posts
9.3.2020
I love it when people redesign "in the open" and write about it. I'd just like to shout out to our own Geoff who has been doing this for 3 months now. He started in late December last year. He's been sharing stuff like his dev tooling choices, considering performance, considering accessibility...
From Crypto Self-Custody to Music Rights, This Mother-Daughter Dev Team Does It All
15.2.2020
Developer Cindy Zimmerman and her mother Judy Katzman are among the cryptocurrency community’s most quietly prolific builders
IOTA Network Still Down: How the Next Bitcoin Killer Screeched to a Halt
14.2.2020
On February 13, the IOTA network came to a screeching halt and the IOTA Foundation reports that $1.6 million worth of the native currency was stolen. The following day, the IOTA network status page still shows the mainnet is “not operational” and the development team has found...
10 Interesting JavaScript and CSS Libraries for February 2020
11.2.2020
Our web dev resources compilation for February comes packed with awesome React frameworks, tools for writing better tests, and much more!