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Napkin
11.8.2021
We took a surface level look at Pipedream the other day, which really does look cool. It’s like a much more modern and fancy version of what Yahoo Pipes was. A better comparison might be Zapier, except you …
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View Source (on Mobile)
10.8.2021
Have you ever wished you could see the HTML source of a web page while on a mobile browser, which generally doesn’t offer that feature? If you have a desktop machine around, there are ways, but what I mean …
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View Source (on Mobile)
10.8.2021
Have you ever wished you could see the HTML source of a web page while on a mobile browser, which generally doesn’t offer that feature? If you have a desktop machine around, there are ways, but what I mean …
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Responsible Markdown in Next.js
10.8.2021
Markdown truly is a great format. It’s close enough to plain text so that anyone can quickly learn it, and it’s structured enough that it can be parsed and eventually converted to you name it.
That being said: parsing, processing, …
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WooCommerce With Apple Pay and Google Pay
10.8.2021
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Got a WooCommerce store? It behooves you to offer a variety of payment methods. Just anecdotally, I’m sure both you and me have been annoyed and even abandoned purchases when a merchant, online or …
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CSS Nesting, specificity, and you
10.8.2021
Here’s Kilian Valkhof on CSS nesting which isn’t available in browsers yet, but will be soon. There are a few differences he notes between CSS nesting and nesting in Sass or Less though. Take, for example, the following code:
div
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Choice Words about the Upcoming Deprecation of JavaScript Dialogs
9.8.2021
It might be the very first thing a lot of people learn in JavaScript:
alert("Hello, World");
One day at CodePen, we woke up to a ton of customer support tickets about their Pens being broken, which ultimately boiled down to …
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The Large, Small, and Dynamic Viewports
9.8.2021
We’ve got viewport units (e.g. vw, vh, vmin, vmax), and they are mostly pretty great. It’s cool to always have a unit available that is relative to the entire screen. But when you ask people what …
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Exploring the CSS Paint API: Image Fragmentation Effect
9.8.2021
In my previous article, I created a fragmentation effect using CSS mask and custom properties. It was a neat effect but it has one drawback: it uses a lot of CSS code (generated using Sass). This time I am …
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SVG Gobbler
6.8.2021
Great little project from Ross Moody:
SVG Gobbler is a browser extension that finds the vector content on the page you’re viewing and gives you the option to download, optimize, copy, view the code, or export it as an image.
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New Nuxt Features past v2.10
6.8.2021
Nuxt offers an incredible developer experience, with a lot of performance and application setup best practices baked in. In recent releases, they’ve been working on taking this developer experience to the next level, with some newer features that speed up …
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Efficient Infinite Utility Helpers Using Inline CSS Custom Properties and calc()
6.8.2021
I recently wrote a very basic Sass loop that outputs several padding and margin utility classes. Nothing fancy, really, just a Sass map with 11 spacing values, looped over to create classes for both padding and margin on each side. …
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gridless.design
6.8.2021
Donnie D’Amato built a whole site around the thesis that “digital designers still expect to use the grid while experienced layout engineers have moved beyond it.” The idea isn’t that we should never literally use display: grid; but rather that …
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Three Buggy React Code Examples and How to Fix Them
5.8.2021
There’s usually more than one way to code a thing in React. And while it’s possible to create the same thing different ways, there may be one or two approaches that technically work “better” than others. I actually run into …
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How to Build a Full-Stack Mobile Application With Flutter, Fauna, and GraphQL
5.8.2021
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Flutter is Google’s UI framework used to create flexible, expressive cross-platform mobile applications. It is one of the fastest-growing frameworks for mobile app development. On the other hand, Fauna is a transactional, developer-friendly serverless …
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The State Of Web Workers In 2021
5.8.2021
You gotta appreciate the tenacity of Surma. He’s been advocating for Web Workers as a path forward to better-feeling websites for a lot of years now. He’s at it again making sure we all understand the landscape:
[…] regardless
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Using CSS Shapes for Interesting User Controls and Navigation
4.8.2021
Straight across or down, that’s the proverbial order for user controls on a screen. Like a list of menu items. But what if we change that to a more fluid layout with bends, curves, and nooks? We can pull it …
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Serverless Functions as Proxies
3.8.2021
The first time cloud functions / serverless functions clicked for me was when I saw and tried Auth0’s (now defunct) Webtask. It was a little CodePen-like IDE but you didn’t really see anything aside from code and logs. The …
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Automatic Daily GitHub Backups, Restored in Seconds
3.8.2021
Any company that uses GitHub for critical applications needs a backup that can be restored quickly when needed. Cyberattacks, human errors, or a forced push are just some of the scenarios that can result in the loss of GitHub data. …
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A Deep Dive on Skipping to Content
3.8.2021
While most people browsing the web on a computer use a mouse, many rely on their keyboard instead. Theoretically, using a web page with the keyboard should not be a problem — press the TAB key to move the keyboard …
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