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AggregateError
17.9.2021
One of the big themes of the web these days is concurrency, which leads to accomplishing tasks asynchronously. In doing so, the possibility of multiple errors can occur. Instead of providing a generic error, optimally you’d provide a wealth of error information. TheAggregateError error lets...
Minding the “gap”
16.9.2021
You might already know about the CSS gap property. It isn’t exactly new, but it did gain an important new ability last year: it now works in Flexbox in addition to CSS Grid. That, and the fact that I …
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2021 Scroll Survey Report
16.9.2021
Here’s a common thought and question: how do browsers prioritize what they work on? We get little glimpses of it sometimes. We’re told to “star issues” in bug trackers to signal interest. We’re told to get involved in GitHub threads …
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kbar
15.9.2021
It’s not every day that a new pattern emerges across the web, but I think cmd + k is here to stay. It’s a keyboard shortcut that usually pops open a search UI and it lets you toggle settings on …
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Today’s Cryptocurrency Data Aggregators Offer a Plethora of Onchain and Market Insights
13.9.2021
In the early days, there were only a few web portals with cryptocurrency statistics and data tied to these ever-changing digital asset markets and blockchain metrics. More than ten years later, however, data and analytics tethered to the world’s most popular and most used digital currencies...
EyeDropper API Dropped
10.9.2021
I had no idea this was coming but it’s pretty neat! Chrome has shipped the EyeDropper API in v95 (Canary, as I write).
???? Loving the new `EyeDropper` Web API:
“`jsawait new EyeDropper().open();// Returns the picked color, e.g.,
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Energy Web and Protocol Labs to Decarbonize Filecoin
10.9.2021
Energy Web and Protocol Labs finally made the announcement, showcasing the adoption of open-source solutions by cryptocurrency miners in a bid to harness decentralized renewable sources of energy according to Filecoin predictions reports. Six providers of Filecoin storage bought authenticated...
GoMeat Token – Empowering Local Specialty Stores Using Blockchain
9.9.2021
PRESS RELEASE. GoMeat Services (https://gomeat.io) is a digital marketplace connecting consumers with their local specialty (halal/kosher) stores. Since its launch in 2019, GoMeat has processed over 6k orders and garnered over 5k loyal users. GoMeat application and website bring convenience to...
Improve Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) on Your Website With Ease
9.9.2021
(This is a sponsored post.)
Optimizing the user experience you offer on your website is essential for the success of any online business. Google does use different user experience-related metrics to rank web pages for SEO and has continued …
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Fire SVG animations (SMIL) when the SVG is visible
7.9.2021
When requirements read “when visible” your brain should go straight to IntersectionObserver. That’s exactly what Zach is doing here to kick off an animation when it scrolls into view.
Except this animation is an SVG SMIL animation: an <animate>…
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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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Inspirational Websites Roundup #29
7.9.2021
A new collection of the best web designs and creative websites from the past couple of weeks.
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Web 3.0 Is Coming, and Crypto Will Be Essential to It
5.9.2021
First, it was decentralized finance (DeFi), then it was non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and now it seems as though the Next Big Thing in crypto might be Web 3.0. While somewhat vague, this term refers to making the Internet more ‘intelligent’ in various ways, from using AI to proactively respond...
Web 3.0 Is Coming, and Crypto Will Be Essential to It
5.9.2021
squo; in various ways, from using AI to proactively respond to user queries to using decentralization to unlock novel functions and experiences.And given that decentralization is likely to be one of the core properties of Web 3.0, this means that cryptoassets and blockchain will also play a s
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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Developers and Designers Work on a Single Source of Truth with UXPin
27.8.2021
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There is a conversation that has been percolating for as long as I’ve been in the web design and development industry. It’s centered around the conflict between design tools and development tools. The final …
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Designing for the Unexpected
27.8.2021
When I think about what front-end development really is and feels like, this is at the heart of it: designing around a huge set of unknowns, and really embracing that notion as a strength of the web rather …
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