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Give Users Control: The Media Session API
14.12.2020
Here’s a scenario. You start a banging Kendrick Lamar track in one of your many open browser tabs. You’re loving it, but someone walks into your space and you need to pause it. Which tab is it? Browsers try to help with that a little bit. You can probably mute the entire system audio. But wouldn’t...
Chaintip Creator Unveils New Tipping Tool Sharetip
14.12.2020
Tipping internet users with cryptocurrency, particularly Bitcoin Cash, seems like a great way to spread adoption. The creator of one popular tipping tool is cooking up something brand new. Self-Serve Tipping It’s called Sharetip and I had the opportunity to try it. I tipped someone Bitcoin...
Styling Comment Threads
7.12.2020
Comment threads are one of those things that look really simple when executed right. When designing them yourself, you may find that they are rather deceptively simple. There is a lot that goes into designing nice and usable comment threads, and in this article, I will try my best to walk...
A Microsite Showcasing Coding Fonts
1.12.2020
We made one! It’s open source if you want to make it better or fix things.
There are quite a few purpose-built fonts for writing code. The point of this site is to show you some of the nicest options so you can be aware of them and perhaps pick one out to try that suites your taste.
We used...
The CSS Custom Property Toggle Trick
29.10.2020
Back in July 2020, I got an email from James0x57 (I always try to refer to people by their name, but I think I get the sense they prefer to go by screen name) that says:
The entire world of branching conditional logic and bulk feature toggling for custom CSS properties is possible and only exists...
Bancor updates DEX to try a new approach against impermanent loss
15.10.2020
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch, however
Looking at AWS Amplify
7.10.2020
AWS Amplify is a collection of tools from AWS to help you build applications.
Allow me to set the stage here to try to make that as clear as I know how. I have a friend (true story) who wants to build an app centered around physical training. His wife is a physical trainer, and they think perhaps...
On the Web Share API
6.10.2020
I think the Web Share API is very cool (here’s our coverage). In a nutshell, it taps into the native sharing features on whatever platform you’re on, if that platform supports it. So essentially…
I like this:
Web Share API activated on iOS
A heck of a lot more than these...
SEC Is Willing to ‘Try’ a Tokenized ETF, Chairman Says: Report
3.10.2020
SEC Chairman Jay Clayton expressed an openness to a tokenized exchange-traded fund
XMR workgroup says IRS should study Monero — not try to break it
17.9.2020
Dollars are used for nefarious activities too
How CSS Perspective Works
9.9.2020
As someone who loves creating CSS animations, one of the more powerful tools I use is perspective. While the perspective property is not capable of 3D effects all by itself (since basic shapes can’t have depth), you can use the transform property to move and rotate objects in a 3D space (with...
Russia set to try again with blockchain voting despite earlier setbacks
27.8.2020
Initial results appear promising for the Waves-developed e-voting system
JavaScript Fatigue
6.8.2020
From Nicholas Zakas’ newsletter, on how he avoids JavaScript fatigue:
 I don’t try to learn about every new thing that comes out. There’s a limited number of hours in the day and a limited amount of energy you can devote to any topic, so I choose not to learn about anything...
Making Sense of react-spring
4.8.2020
Animation is one of the trickier things to get right with React. In this post, I’ll try to provide the introduction to react-spring I wish I had when I first started out, then dive into some interesting use cases. While react-spring isn’t the only animation library for React, it’s one of the more...
Getting the Most Out of Variable Fonts on Google Fonts
30.7.2020
I have spent the past several years working (alongside a bunch of super talented people) on a font family called Recursive Sans & Mono, and it just launched officially on Google Fonts!
Wanna try it out super fast? Here’s the embed code to use the full Recursive variable font family from Google...
Twitter Hackers Try to Launder Funds Via P2P and Gambling Platforms
22.7.2020
The hackers behind the massive Bitcoin ‘giveaway’ scam that hit Twitter are moving funds to gambling and P2P trading platforms
My Long Journey to a Decoupled WordPress Gatsby Site
13.7.2020
As a professional research biologist, my playground used to be science laboratories filled with microscopes, petri dishes, and biology tools. Curiosity leads many scientists on their journey to discoveries. Mine led me to web design. I used to try learning HTML on my lab desktop while centrifuging...
An Eleventy Starter with Tailwind CSS and Alpine.js
10.7.2020
When I decided to try to base my current personal website on Eleventy, I didn’t want to reinvent the wheel: I tested all the Eleventy starters built with Tailwind CSS that I could find in Starter Projects from the documentation.
Many of the starters seemed to integrate Tailwind CSS in...
Posters! (for CSS Flexbox and CSS Grid)
6.7.2020
Any time I chat with a fellow web person and CSS-Tricks comes up in conversation, there is a good chance they’ll say: oh yeah, that guide on CSS flexbox, I use that all the time!
Indeed that page, and it’s cousin the CSS grid guide, are among our top trafficked pages. I try to take...
Hide Scrollbars During an Animation
24.6.2020
CSS still can’t animate to auto dimensions.
.dropdown {
transition: 0.2s;
height: 0;
}
.dropdown.open {
/* the height will change, but it won't animate. */
height: auto;
}
There is JavaScript trickery you can try. Brandon Smith outlined several techniques here a little while back....