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The State of Changing Gradients with CSS Transitions and Animations
1.6.2018
Back in 2012, Internet Explorer 10 came out and, among other things, it finally supported CSS gradients and, in addition to that, the ability to animate them with just CSS! No other browser supported this at the time, but I was hopeful for the future.
Sadly, six years have passed and nothing...
WDRL — Edition 230: DNS over HTTPS, Web Push and Bitcoin’s Dark Energy Secret
1.6.2018
Hey,
the web’s evolving every single day and it’s amazing to follow and watch what happens. So when I heard first about Notifications in our web browsers by websites I was immediately concerned that a lot of websites will abuse this and ask for permission. Over time, a lot of people got annoyed...
Frustration
31.5.2018
Jeremy Keith talks about a couple of recent frustrating moments in his life. One regarding a musical instrument, one involving a build process:
That feeling of frustration I get from having wiring issues with a musical instrument is the same feeling I get whenever something goes awry with my...
Build Multiple Stacking Sticky Sidebars with Pure CSS and Bootstrap 4
31.5.2018
Making high performant, pure CSS sticky sidebars that stack with Bootstrap 4.
This will be a quick and pretty cool tutorial on a neat trick on how to have m
Forms, Auth and Serverless Functions on Gatsby and Netlify
31.5.2018
Abstracting infrastructure is in our DNA. Roads, schools, water supply networks—you get the idea. Web development is no exception: serverless architectures are a beautiful expression of that phenomenon. Static sites, in particular, are turning into dynamic, rich experiences.
Handling static...
Customize payment solutions with our enhanced platform
31.5.2018
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We’ve upped our game by using developers’ feedback to improve the Authorize.Net payment platform. Check out our new, streamlined API, better sample code and SDKs, and use them to provide your merchants with a secure, scalable payment solution. You’ll see that it’s...
Collective #420
31.5.2018
Sculpting Software Animation * Solving Life's Problems with CSS * Critters * Goat * code.xyz * Proppy * Deno * Prerender-loader
Collective #420 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Transmit Droplets
30.5.2018
Ethan Marcotte documented his workflow for storing GIFs in a web directory. Sometimes just SFTPing files into a folder is as fancy a workflow as you need, and in fact, modern workflows don't have anything on it!
I've also used Transmit's fancy features for this kind of thing. I prefer saving...
Getting Started with Live Coding in Visual Studio Code w/ Live Share
30.5.2018
Live Share for Visual Studio Code is HOT OFF THE PRESS and publically available as of May 7th 2018! Wha
Modern Distributed Application Deployment with Kubernetes and MongoDB Atlas
30.5.2018
Storytelling is one of the parts of being a Developer Advocate that I enjoy. Sometimes the stories are about the special moments when the team comes together to keep a system running or build it f
OpenRates Currency API (Sponsored)
30.5.2018
Creating your own APIs can be a total nightmare: worrying about uptime, load balancing, data accuracy, caching, and all of the other risks would keep me up at night. And if your API relates to money in any way? If you get that wrong you could be costing yourself, your employer, or your client...
Managing State in React With Unstated
29.5.2018
As your application becomes more complex, the management of state can become tedious. A component's state is meant to be self-contained, which makes sharing state across multiple components a headache. Redux is usually the go-to library to manage state in React, however, depending on how complex...
Build a realtime polling web app with Next.js
29.5.2018
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Learn to build a webapp that accepts user votes, using Next.js and Chart.js. Users can vote for their favorite pet, and the results are displayed in realtime on a graph in their browser using Pusher Channels.
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How to Delete Untracked Files in a Mercurial Repository
29.5.2018
Working around Firefox at Mozilla means that you need to get acquainted with mercurial, the version control system that rivals git and svn. Like any tool, hg (mercurial) can be difficult until you’re well versed with it. And if you hg import a URL that doesn’t match up with...
Developing a design environment
28.5.2018
Jules Forrest discusses some of the work that her team at Credit Karma has been up to when it comes to design systems. Jules writes:
...in most engineering organizations, you spend your whole first day setting up your development environment so you can actually ship code. It’s generally pretty...
Collective #419
28.5.2018
Saber.js * Oceanic Overlays * AsteroidOS * Getting Started With CSS Layout * Progressive Web Games * Wired Elements
Collective #419 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Capture and Report JavaScript Errors with window.onerror
28.5.2018
onerror is a special browser event that fires whenever an uncaught
Browser Extensions I Actually Use
27.5.2018
I use around 10 at the moment and they all provide functionality to me I find extremely important. Sometimes that functionality is every day all day. Sometimes it's once in a blue moon but when you need it, you need it.
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Service Worker Cookbook
25.5.2018
I stumbled upon this site the other day from Mozilla that’s a collection of recipes to get started with a Service Worker — from caching strategies and notifications to providing an offline fallback to your users, this little cookbook has it all.
You can also check out our guide to making...
Jimmy Wales, Special App, and Startup Oscars: This Year BlockShow Is Gearing Up
25.5.2018
BlockShow brings many surprises and at least one huge reveal