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Building Your Own Subscription Newsletter
7.9.2021
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I did a sponsored video the other week explaining how to build a paid subscription newsletter using WordPress (we did it on WordPress.com but it could be hosted anywhere), MailPoet (a plugin to visually …
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Firefox’s `bolder` Default is a Problem for Variable Fonts
7.9.2021
Variable fonts make it easy to create a large set of font styles from a single font file. Unfortunately, the default rendering of the <b> and <strong> elements in browsers today is not very compatible with the wide range of …
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Matrixport Launches ‘BTC-U Range Sniper’ — Returns Up to 200% for Accurate Predictions
7.9.2021
The financial asset services platform Matrixport has introduced a variety of new products since the firm raised $100 million in a Series C financing round during the first week of August. Following the launch of the company’s “ETH2.0 Staking Earn” earning service, Matrixport...
Early Days for CSS Scoping
6.9.2021
There is a working draft spec for CSS scoping now, a newsworthy event for the W3C. Other than a weird period where <style scoped shipped and then was subsequently removed from the spec (and browsers), this is the furthest a …
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Creating Interactive Product Pages With React and Cloudinary
6.9.2021
With Cloudinary and React, create low-bandwidth, interactive product pages for e-commerce on which shoppers can specify sizes, colors, and custom text.
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Binance limits SGD product offerings in Singapore amid regulatory warnings
5.9.2021
The Monetary Authority of Singapore placed Binance on its investor alert list on Sept.1 amid signs that the crypto exchange may have violated local payments laws
BBVA Switzerland Launches ‘New Gen’ Digital Account With Integrated Crypto Wallet
4.9.2021
Clients of BBVA Switzerland will be able to buy, store, and trade crypto assets with a digital account that comes with a cryptocurrency wallet. The new banking product will be available across the European Union as well as in a number of markets in South America. BBVA Switzerland Account...
AWS Lambdas: Easy, Easier, Easiest
4.9.2021
I’d say cloud functions are one of the most transformative technologies in the last bunch of years. They are (usually) cheap, scale well, secure in their inherit isolation, and often written in JavaScript—comfortable territory for front-end developers. Nearly every cloud …
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Supercharging Built-In Elements With Web Components “is” Easier Than You Think
3.9.2021
We’ve already discussed how creating web components is easier than you think, but there’s another aspect of the specification that we haven’t discussed yet and it’s a way to customize (nay, supercharge) a built-in element. It’s similar to …
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Links on Performance IV
3.9.2021
HTTP Caching is a Superpower — Hugh Haworth covers how the Cache-Control header is an awfully potent ingredient in web performance. I mis-read the title at first and was waiting to read about HTML caching. Hugh covers it a bit
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I completely ignored the front-end development scene for 6 months. It was fine.
3.9.2021
Have you ever fretted that front-end web development moves so fast that if you stepped away for a while, you’d be lost coming back? Rachel Smith has:
The hectic pace of needing to learn one thing after the next
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If I work really hard on my Open Graph images, people will share my blog posts.
2.9.2021
Zach did that thing where each of his blog posts has a special URL with the design of social image card that is screenshat by a headless browser (like Puppeteer) and used as a true meta Open Graph image, meaning …
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You don’t need external assets in an HTML file
2.9.2021
A fun exercise from Terence Eden. You can send an HTML file over the wire including anything a website might need without requesting any other files. CSS and JavaScript are easy, because there are <script and <style tags. Images and …
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Accessing Your Data With Netlify Functions and React
2.9.2021
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Static site generators are popular for their speed, security, and user experience. However, sometimes your application needs data that is not available when the site is built. React is a library for building user …
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What I Wish I Knew About CSS When Starting Out As A Front-Ender
2.9.2021
Nathan Hardy shares when things “clicked”:
Reflecting back on this time, I think there are a few key concepts that were vital to things finally all making sense and fitting together. These were:
• The Box Model (e.g. box-sizing, height, width, margin, padding)•...
Some Typography Links VII
1.9.2021
All-things-typography, from a hard-edged monospaced variable font to fonts in the "Twilight Zone" ... and much, much more.
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You want enabling CSS selectors, not disabling ones
31.8.2021
I think this is good advice from Silvestar Bistrović:
An enabling selector is what I call a selector that does a job without disabling the particular rule.
The classic example is applying margin to everything, only to have to remove …
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Application-Specific Links
31.8.2021
You know like https:? That’s a URL Scheme. You’re probably familiar with the concept, thanks to others that come up in front-end development, like mailto:. You can actually make your own, which is pretty cool. There …
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Axi Extends Product Offerings by Introducing Share CFDs
31.8.2021
Axi, the Australia-based MT4 trading platform, recently introduced share CFDs to the platform. The move was in an effort to extend its product offerings. Axi, previously called AxiTrader, announced the CFDs in an interview with Finance Magnates. The platform is considering adding the CFDs of...
CSS Pseudo Commas
30.8.2021
A bonafide CSS trick if there ever was one! @ShadowShahriar created a CodePen demo that uses pseudo-elements to place commas between list items that are displayed inline, and the result is a natural-looking complete sentence with proper punctuation.
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