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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:
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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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CSS Modules (The Native Ones)
2.8.2021
They are actually called “CSS Module Scripts” and are a native browser feature, as opposed to the popular open-source project that essentially does scoped styles by creating unique class name identifiers in both HTML and CSS.
Native CSS Modules are …
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How to Code a Playable Synth Keyboard
2.8.2021
With a little knowledge of music theory, we can use regular HTML, CSS and JavaScript — without any libraries or audio samples — to create a simple digital instrument. Let’s put that into practice and explore one method for creating …
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A Shared ESLint Configuration
30.7.2021
Looks like it was almost 9 years ago when Airbnb first published their JavaScript Style Guide. 112k stars on GitHub later, it seems like the de facto preset for Babel / ES Lint. But it’s not the only company …
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Conjuring Generative Blobs With The CSS Paint API
30.7.2021
The CSS Paint API (part of the magical Houdini family) opens the door to an exciting new world of design in CSS. Using the Paint API, we can create custom shapes, intricate patterns, and beautiful animations — all with a …
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GitHub Explains the Open Graph Images
29.7.2021
An explanation of those new GitHub social media images:
[…] our custom Open Graph image service is a little Node.js app that uses the GitHub GraphQL API to collect data, generates some HTML from a template, and pipes it to 
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So you want to self-publish books and courses on programming
29.7.2021
John Resig and I recently self-published our book on GraphQL. There are tons of how-tos for self-publishing a book, or even online classes, but very little in the way of why you would want to, or whether it’s even worth …
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Developer-Friendly Passwordless Auth
29.7.2021
I’d wager to say that most websites that are business-minded have accounts. A way to log into them. Social media sites, eCommerce sites, CMS systems, you name it, having accounts people log into is at the heart of them. So… …
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Collective #672
29.7.2021
Scroll-Linked Animations in CSS * Accessible Dialog * Slinkity * Is it Time to Ditch the Design Grid?
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Safari 15 Opinions
28.7.2021
It was interesting that when Safari 15 was dropping at this last WWDC, in my circles at least, I mostly heard enthusiasm. Like the colors-in-the-browser-controls stuff was a neat trick and fun to play with. And there were other …
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Using Absolute Value, Sign, Rounding and Modulo in CSS Today
28.7.2021
For quite a while now, the CSS spec has included a lot of really useful mathematical functions, such as trigonometric functions (sin(), cos(), tan(), asin(), acos(), atan(), atan2()), exponential functions (…
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Learnings From a WebPageTest Session on CSS-Tricks
28.7.2021
I got together with Tim Kadlec from over at WebPageTest the other day to use do a bit of performance testing on CSS-Tricks. Essentially use the tool, poke around, and identify performance pain points to work on. You can watch …
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