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Accessible Web Animation: The WCAG on Animation Explained

22.9.2020
It’s true, web animation can be accessible! Sometimes it just takes a little extra effort to make sure that it is. There are strategic things we can do to make sure our animations have a positive impact on accessibility, like planning how they contribute to the overall UX and ease of use of...

This vs. That

24.8.2020
Here’s a nice site from Phuoc Nguyen, who I’ve noted before has quite a knack for clever sites. This vs. That pits different related concepts against each other as a theme for an article. For example, CSS has display: none;, opacity: 0;, and visibility: hidden; and they all, on...

Why Developers should Design Niche Portfolio Sites for Themselves

20.8.2020
This post will show you how to design niche portfolio sites that instantly impress prospective clients and save you the trouble in trying to find and sell them yourself. The post Why Developers should Design Niche Portfolio Sites for Themselves appeared first on Codrops

Holy Albatross with Widths

24.7.2020
Heydon’s Holy Albatross is a technique to have a row of elements break into a column of elements at a specific width. A specified parent width, not a screen width like a media query would have. So, like a container query (ya know, those things that don’t exist yet that we...

Some Typography Links

25.6.2020
I just can’t stop opening excellent typography-related articles, which means I need to subject you to blog posts that round them up so I can clean up my open tabs. Vistaserve is “a grass-roots web hosting initiative hailing from Thornbury, Australia. Inspired by the quirky web of...

5 Myths About Jamstack

9.6.2020
Jamstack isn’t necessarily new. The term was officially coined in 2016, but the technologies and architecture it describes have been around well before that. Jamstack has received a massive dose of attention recently, with articles about it appearing in major sites and publications and...

“The Modern Web”

22.5.2020
A couple of interesting articles making the rounds: Tom MacWrite: Second-guessing the modern web Rich Harris: In defense of the modern web I like Tom’s assertion that React (which he’s using as a stand-in for JavaScript frameworks in general) has an ideal usage: There is a sweet spot...

Radio Buttons Are Like Selects; Checkboxes Are Like Multiple Selects

20.5.2020
I was reading Anna Kaley’s “Listboxes vs. Dropdown Lists” post the other day. It’s a fairly straightforward comparison between different UI implementations of selecting options. There is lots of good advice there. Classics like that you should use radio buttons (single...

Playing With (Fake) Container Queries With watched-box & resizeasaurus

5.5.2020
Heydon’s <watched-box> is a damn fantastic tool. It’s a custom element that essentially does container queries by way of class names that get added to the box based on size breakpoints that are calculated with ResizeObserver. It’s like a cleaner version of what Philip...

5 Psychological Tricks to Use in Email Newsletter

1.5.2020
Email marketing plays a big part in developing the brand. Whether you run an ordinary blog or hold the reins of a multinational estore, it is one of those... The post 5 Psychological Tricks to Use in Email Newsletter appeared first on Onextrapixel

Rethinking Twitter as a Serverless App

23.4.2020
In a previous article, we showed how to build a GraphQL API with FaunaDB. We’ve also written a series of articles [1, 2, 3, 4] explaining how traditional databases built for global scalability have to adopt eventual (vs. strong) consistency, and/or make compromises on relations and indexing...

Free Market Think Tank FEE Now Accepts Bitcoin Cash Donations

11.4.2020
The oldest free market think tank in the United States, the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) has announced the 501(c)3 educational foundation now accepts bitcoin cash (BCH) for donations. The libertarian organization promotes sound economic theory, publishes books and articles regularly...

Consistent Backends and UX: How Do New Algorithms Help?

26.3.2020
Article Series Why should you care? What can go wrong? What are the barriers to adoption? How do new algorithms help? In previous articles, we explained what consistency is, the difference between "strong" and "eventual" consistency, and why this distinction is more important than ever to modern...

Performance Links

24.3.2020
I've had a number of browser tabs open to articles all related to web performance and gosh darn it if blogging them is a way for me get some closure. They are all good! Manuel Matuzovic, Why 543 KB keep me up at night: Yes, I know, it depends. 543 KB aren't always bad, but on that specific page...

Flexible Repeating SVG Masks

22.3.2020
Tyler Gaw reminds us that mask-image can repeat, resize, and move just like background-image does, which is fun to combine and play with. I could see it being a fun option for an <hr, like Sara is doing. CodePen Embed Fallback Direct Link to Article — Permalink… Read article...

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