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Grid Zoom Layout
1.12.2021
A simple image grid layout where a small grid image zooms to become larger while a content view opens.
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Diagonal Stripes Wipe Animation
30.11.2021
I was playing this game on Apple Arcade the other day called wurdweb. It’s a fun little game! Little touches like the little shape dudes that walk around the screen (but otherwise don’t do anything) give it a lot …
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Using the Reflog to Restore Lost Commits
30.11.2021
This article is part of our “Advanced Git” series. Be sure to follow us on Twitter or sign up for our newsletter to hear about future articles!
The “Reflog” is one of Git’s lesser-known features—but one that can be extremely …
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A Look at the Cloudinary WordPress Plugin
30.11.2021
(This is a sponsored post.)
Cloudinary (the media hosting and optimization service) has a brand new version (v3) of its WordPress plugin that has really nailed it. First, a high-level look at the biggest things this plugin does:
It
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Recreating the Apple Music Hits Playlist Animation in CSS
29.11.2021
Apple Music has this “Spatial Audio” feature where the direction of the music in your headphones is based on the location of the device. It’s tough to explain just how neat it is. But that’s not what I’m here to …
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We Analyzed 425,909 Favicons
29.11.2021
This is a neat idea for a research project. The big map is fun, but the research had some tidbits in it worth looking at.
The average favicon network request takes 130ms, at least from our speedy cloud instance.
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Collective #690
29.11.2021
Image Optimizer * Pglet * cccolor * There Is No Digital World * Underline Fill Effect in CSS
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When is it “Right” to Reach for contain and will-change in CSS?
26.11.2021
I’ve got some blind spots in CSS-related performance things. One example is the will-change property. It’s a good name. You’re telling the browser some particular property (or the scroll-position or content) uh, will, change:
.el {
will-change: opacity;
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A Handy Little System for Animated Entrances in CSS
26.11.2021
I love little touches that make a website feel like more than just a static document. What if web content wouldn’t just “appear” when a page loaded, but instead popped, slid, faded, or spun into place? It might be a …
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Collective #689
25.11.2021
Modern CSS Reset * SVGcode * Stunning 3D scenes with R3F * Caffeine
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Creating Generative Patterns with The CSS Paint API
24.11.2021
The browser has long been a medium for art and design. From Lynn Fisher’s joyful A Single Div creations to Diana Smith’s staggeringly detailed CSS paintings, wildly creative, highly skilled developers have — over the years — continuously pushed …
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Which SVG technique performs best for way too many icons?
23.11.2021
Tyler Sticka digs in here in the best possible way: by making a test page and literally measuring performance. Maybe 1,000 icons is a little bit of an edge case, but hey, 250 rows of data with four icons in …
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Control Layout in a Multi-Directional Website
23.11.2021
Many business websites need a multilingual setup. As with anything development-related, implementing one in an easy, efficient, and maintainable way is desirable. Designing and developing to be ready for multiple languages, whether it happens right at launch or is expected …
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On User Tracking and Industry Standards on Privacy
22.11.2021
Inspired by Eva PenzeyMoog’s new book, Jeremy highlights the widespread user tracking situation in this industry:
There was a line that really stood out to me:
The idea that it’s alright to do whatever unethical thing is currently the
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CSS “decorations”
22.11.2021
A reader wrote to me the other day asking about this bit of CSS they came across in Wikipedia’s Common.css:
.mw-collapsible-leftside-toggle .mw-collapsible-toggle {
/* @noflip */
float: left;
/* @noflip */
text-align: left;
}
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Responsive Layouts, Fewer Media Queries
22.11.2021
We cannot talk about web development without talking about Responsive Design. It’s just a given these days and has been for many years. Media queries are a part of Responsive Design and they aren’t going anywhere. Since the introduction of …
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Reimagine Atomic CSS
19.11.2021
I’m not the biggest fan of Atomic CSS myself. I don’t like all the classes. I like to express my styles in CSS because I find CSS… good. But I appreciate that a lot of people seem to like it, …
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Coding Font Game
19.11.2021
A tournament bracket UI where you pick your favorite between two coding fonts and your choices are whittled down all the way to a final winner. A clever way to suss out your own taste and arrive at a choice.…
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Parallax Powered by CSS Custom Properties
19.11.2021
Good friend Kent C. Dodds has recently dropped his new website which had a lot of work go into it. I was fortunate enough that Kent reached out a while back and asked if I could come up with some …
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The Many Faces of VS Code in the Browser
18.11.2021
VS Code is built from web technologies (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript), but dare I say today it’s mostly used a local app that’s installed on your machine. That’s starting to shift, though, as there has been an absolute explosion of …
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