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A Clever Sticky Footer Technique
17.11.2021
Upon hearing “sticky footer” these days, I would think most people imagine a position: sticky situation where a footer element appears fixed on the screen while in the scrolling context of some parent element.
That’s not quite what I’m talking …
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Line length revisited: following the research
16.11.2021
Mary Dyson produces nitty gritty research on the long-accepted notion that shorter line lengths are more legible than longer ones. The study finds that shorter lines do not necessarily lead to faster reading. If you’re looking for a definitive answer …
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Generate a Pull Request of Static Content With a Simple HTML Form
16.11.2021
Jamstack has been in the website world for years. Static Site Generators (SSGs) — which often have content that lives right within a GitHub repo itself — are a big part of that story. That opens up the idea of …
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Jamstack TV
16.11.2021
That’s the name of Netlify’s YouTube Channel. Love that. I linked up Rich’s talk the other day, which was a part of this past JamstackConf, but now all the talks are up on there. Rich got to talk …
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Color Alpha Anywhere
16.11.2021
In my “Different Degrees of Custom Property Usage” article, I noted a situation about colors and CSS custom properties where I went “too far” with breaking up HSL color values. Breaking every single color into its H, S, and L parts …
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Defining and Applying UI Themes Using the Mimcss CSS-in-JS Library
15.11.2021
Theming UI refers to the ability to perform a change in visual styles in a consistent manner that defines the “look and feel” of a site. Swapping color palettes, à la dark mode or some other means, is a good …
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Other Looks at the Conditional Border Radius Trick
13.11.2021
Remember when Ahmad Shadeed wrote about that border-radius “toggle” he found in Facebook’s CSS? It was interesting! I covered it. A few weeks after that surge of linkage, a couple of articles came out digging into it a little deeper. …
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Interactive Rebase: Clean up your Commit History
12.11.2021
Interactive Rebase is the Swiss Army knife of Git commands: lots of use cases and lots of possibilities! It's really a great addition to any developer's tool chain, because it lets you revise your local commit history—before you share your work with the rest of the team. Let's see what you can...
Easy Dark Mode (and Multiple Color Themes!) in React
11.11.2021
I was working on a large React application for a startup, and aside from just wanting some good strategies to keep our styles organized, I wanted to give this whole “dark mode” thing a shot. With the huge ecosystem around …
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Don’t Snore on CORS
10.11.2021
Whatever, I just needed a title. Everyone’s favorite web security feature has crossed my desk a bunch of times lately and I always feel like that is a sign I should write something because that’s what blogging is.
The main …
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Quick and Dirty Bootstrap Overrides at Runtime
10.11.2021
Oh, Bootstrap, that old standard web library that either you hate or you spend all your time defending as “it’s fine, it’s not that bad.” Regardless of what side you fall on, it’s a powerful UI framework that’s everywhere, …
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React Suspense: Lessons Learned While Loading Data
9.11.2021
Suspense is React’s forthcoming feature that helps coordinate asynchronous actions—like data loading—allowing you to easily prevent inconsistent state in your UI. I’ll provide a better explanation of what exactly that means, along with a quick introduction of Suspense, and then …
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CSS Grid Can Do Auto Height Transitions
8.11.2021
Bonafide CSS trick alert! Nelson Menezes figured out a new way (that only works in Firefox for now) that is awfully clever.
Perhaps you know that CSS cannot animate to auto dimensions, which is super unfortunate. Animating from …
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Icon Glassmorphism Effect in CSS
8.11.2021
I recently came across a cool effect known as glassmorphism in a Dribble shot. My first thought was I could quickly recreate it in a few minutes if I just use some emojis for the icons without wasting time …
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Does the Next Generation of Static Site Generators Make Building Sites Better?
8.11.2021
Just ran across îles, a new static site generator mostly centered around Vue. The world has no particular shortage of static site generators, but it’s interesting to see what this “next generation” of SSGs seem to focus on or …
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Binance CEO: Avoiding Cryptocurrency Scams, Squid Game Token and Other Defi Risks
8.11.2021
The following article was written by CZ, Binance CEO & Co-Founder. DYOR, or do your own research, is a concept I think every investor should know about. It’s as close to a golden rule as anything in the world of crypto, but it applies more even broadly to anything you’re planning...
Favicons: How to Make Sure Browsers Only Download the SVG Version
5.11.2021
Šime Vidas DM’d me the other day about this thread from subzey on Twitter. My HTML for favicons was like this:
<!-- Warning! Typo! --<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" size="any"<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.svg" type="image/svg+xml"
The attribute size is a typo there...
Yes, Design Systems Do Improve Developer Efficiency and Design Consistency
5.11.2021
One of the toughest things about being someone who cares deeply about design systems is making the case for a dedicated design system. Folks in leadership will often ask you to prove the value of it. Why should we care …
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How to Create an Animated Chart of Nested Squares Using Masks
5.11.2021
We have many well-known chart types: bar, donut, line, pie, you name it. All popular chart libraries support these. Then there are the chart types that do not even have a name. Check out this dreamt-up chart with stacked (nested) …
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enterkeyhint
5.11.2021
I only just recently learned the enterkeyhint attribute on form inputs was a thing! It seems like kind of a big deal to me, as crafting HTML form markup is a decent slice of a front-end developer’s life, and this …
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