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WDRL — Edition 261: Society Action, Unlabelled inputs, Constructable Stylesheets and Trust as Leader.
15.3.2019
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Today is a big climate action day and pupils around the world will stand up and ask governments, politicians, their parents and relatives and businesspeople to finally show responsibility for the young generation that’ll face the results of a changing climate directly. It’s clearly not their...
Awesome Demos Roundup #2
13.3.2019
The second edition of our collection of creative demos and experiments for your inspiration.
Awesome Demos Roundup #2 was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
Extending Google Analytics on CSS-Tricks with Custom Dimensions
11.3.2019
The idea for this article sparked when Chris wrote this in Thank You (2018 Edition):
I almost wish our URLs had years in them because I still don't have a way to scope analytic data to only show me data from content published this year. I can see the most popular stuff from the year, but that's...
WDRL — Edition 260: Company Culture, Cache Control, Encryption By Developers And Tracking Focused Elements.
6.3.2019
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Let’s think about our own take on how we do work today. If we receive a task to do, are we asking for more details, are we figuring out how to do it ourselves or just following the task’s details. If we do only the latter, this of course will get it done. But it’ll also increase the risk...
WDRL — Edition 259: Break Boxes, Common Voice, And Automated Accessibility Audits
1.3.2019
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do you sometimes feel like your brain doesn’t want to learn, read anymore during work? That’s normal, it’s something most of us experience from time to time when we have too much to do and then overload our brains with even more. I’m totally aware that my newsletter is not helpful in that...
WDRL — Edition 258: Colorless Designs, Simple Forms, Native Web Videos, and Rendering The Web.
22.2.2019
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One of the hard problems in web technology is the right balance between technical complexity, smart solutions and a nice user experience that isn’t creating cognitive overload. With Brad Frost’s examples of this gone wrong in Login forms that show how smart technological choices have been...
WDRL — Edition 257: Future of JavaScript, SVG Filters 101, and Humans not Users
8.2.2019
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this week I’ll go straight to the links I found, I simply didn’t came up with a good introduction piece this week which is probably due to the hectic week. Anyways, the articles in this edition are very useful, have new insights and great thoughts.
News
Chrome 72 for Android shipped...
Inspirational Websites Roundup #1
4.2.2019
The first edition of a new series that aims to showcase inspirational website designs.
Inspirational Websites Roundup #1 was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
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...
New ES2018 Features Every JavaScript Developer Should Know
9.1.2019
The ninth edition of the ECMAScript standard, officially known as ECMAScript 2018 (or ES2018 for short), was released in June 2018. Starting with ES2016, new versions of ECMAScript specifications are released yearly rather than every several years and add fewer features than major editions used...
The 10,000 Year Clock Design Principals
8.1.2019
In the new year edition of the Clearleft newsletter, Jeremy Keith linked to the design principals Danny Hillis thought about while considering a clock that would work for 10,000 years.
Here's part of that page, satisfyingly displayed as a <dl>:
Longevity:
Go slow
Avoid sliding friction...
Thank You (2018 Edition)
1.1.2019
Another year come and gone! As we do each year, let's take a look at the past year from an analytical by-the-numbers perspective and do a goal review. Most importantly, I'd like extend the deepest of thanks to you, wonderful readers of CSS-Tricks, for making this place possible.
This site has...
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...
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...