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Setting up a screen reader testing environment on your computer
12.12.2022
Sara Soueidan with everything you need, from what screen reading options are out there all the way to setting up virtual machines for them, installing them, and confguring keyboard options. It’s truly a one-stop reference that pulls together disparate …
Setting up a screen reader...
Saving Settings for a Custom WordPress Block in the Block Editor
12.12.2022
We’ve accomplished a bunch of stuff in this series! We created a custom WordPress block that fetches data from an external API and renders it on the front end. Then we took that work and extended it so the data …
Saving Settings for a Custom WordPress Block in the Block Editor originally...
Plus: wow, look at Dwarf Fortress (and Ixion!) go...
9.12.2022
A duo of big debuts on Steam to squint at this week
CSS Infinite Slider Flipping Through Polaroid Images
9.12.2022
In the last article, we made a pretty cool little slider (or “carousel” if that’s what you prefer) that rotates in a circular direction. This time we are going to make one that flips through a stack of Polaroid …
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Animated Background Stripes That Transition on Hover
8.12.2022
How often to do you reach for the CSS background-size property? If you’re like me — and probably lots of other front-end folks — then it’s usually when you background-size: cover an image to fill the space of an entire …
Animated Background Stripes That Transition on Hover originally...
How did 'the plastic duck game' become a discovery hit?
7.12.2022
Quack quack! Also: Tumblr's trends of the year & lots more
Meta ‘powering through’ metaverse plans: Nifty Newsletter, Nov. 30–Dec. 6
7.12.2022
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg highlighted that the company is hopeful about the metaverse despite costing billions of dollars
Adding Box Shadows to WordPress Blocks and Elements
7.12.2022
The CSS box-shadow and outline properties gained theme.json support in WordPress 6.1. Let's look at a few examples of how it works in real themes, and what options we have to apply these styles to WordPress blocks and elements.
Adding Box Shadows to WordPress Blocks and Elements originally...
CSS is OK, I guess.
6.12.2022
Nothing but ear-to-ear smiles as I was watching this video from @quayjn on YouTube. (No actual name in the byline, though I think it’s Brian Katz if my paper trail is correct).
The best is this Pen you can …
CSS is OK, I guess. originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of...
New games' biggest discovery competition? Old games!
6.12.2022
Also: Valve tells devs about Wolfire suit discovery, lotsa discovery news
Does WWW still belong in URLs?
5.12.2022
For years, a small pedantry war has been raging in our address bars. In one corner are brands like Google, Instagram, and Facebook. This group has chosen to redirect example.com to www.example.com. In the opposite corner: …
Does WWW still belong in URLs? originally published on CSS-Tricks...
Plus: Darktide, Midnight Suns, Callisto Protocol, Need For Speed go big!
3.12.2022
Catching up on a couple of weeks of game analysis, all at once
CSS Infinite and Circular Rotating Image Slider
2.12.2022
Image sliders (also called carousels) are everywhere. There are a lot of CSS tricks to create the common slider where the images slide from left to right (or the opposite). It’s the same deal with the many JavaScript libraries out …
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Digging Deeper Into Container Style Queries
1.12.2022
I wrote up some early thoughts on container style queries a little while back. It’s still early days. They’re already defined in the CSS Containment Module Level 1 specification (currently in Editor’s Draft status) but there’s still a couple of …
Digging Deeper Into...
TikTok: how data changed one dev's discovery tactics
30.11.2022
Also: a 'premium mobile' lesson, and plenty of new platform news
Two Bored Apes sell for $1M each: Nifty Newsletter, Nov. 23–29
30.11.2022
At the height of the bear market, two NFT collectors have paid almost $1 million to purchase Bored Ape NFTs
Using The New Constrained Layout In WordPress Block Themes
30.11.2022
One of the main goals of the WordPress Site Editor (and, yes, that is now the “official” name) is to move basic block styling from CSS to structured JSON. JSON files are machine-readable, which makes it consumable by …
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More Than “Slapping Paint on a Website”
29.11.2022
I’m a sucker for anything about front-end job titles.
Anselm Hannemann:
CSS evolved and we’re beyond the point where everyone can just do it as a side interest. We all can learn it and build amazing stuff with it,
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More Than “Slapping Paint on a Website” originally...
Video games & the fractalization of attention
28.11.2022
Also: the latest Xbox Activision shenanigans, & lots more news
Newer Things to Know About Good Ol’ HTML Lists
28.11.2022
HTML lists are boring. They don’t do much, so we don’t really think about them despite how widely used they are. And we’re still able to do the same things we’ve always done to customize them, like removing markers, reversing …
Newer Things to Know About Good Ol’ HTML Lists originally...