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The Deal with the Section Element
15.1.2020
Two articles published the exact same day:
Bruce Lawson on Smashing Magazine: Why You Should Choose HTML5 <article> Over <section>
Adam Laki on Pine: The Difference Between <section> and <div> Element
They are comparing slightly different things, but they both...
Things you can do with a browser in 2020
10.1.2020
I edit a good amount of technical articles about the web, and there is a tendency for authors to be super broad in their opening sentence, like "What we're able to do on the web has expanded greatly over the years."
I tend to remove stuff like that because it usually doesn't serve the article well...
Blockchain Lock IoT-Solution Aims to Tackle Porch Pirates
9.1.2020
An IoT software development firm claims its blockchain-enabled lock can prevent porch pirating
“All these things are quite easy to do, they just need somebody to sit down and just go through the website”
8.1.2020
I saw a video posted on Twitter from Channel 5 News in the UK (I have no idea what the credibility of them is, it's an ocean away from me) with anchor Claudia Liza asking Glen Turner and Kristina Barrick questions about website accessibility.
Apparently, they often post videos with captions,...
The Ultimate Guide to Dark Mode for Email Marketers
7.1.2020
On the regular web (I suppose) we handle "dark mode" with the CSS prefers-color-scheme media query. But, and to nobody's surprise, it's way weirder in the land of HTML email. The weirdness is that across different email clients, they handle the dark mode thing differently, starting with the fact...
Jetpack Slideshow Block
7.1.2020
One of the many (many) useful things that Jetpack does is give you extra-fancy custom blocks in the WordPress block (AKA Gutenberg) editor: a slideshow, business hours, contact info, GIF, Mailchimp, Map, Markdown, Pinterest, Star Rating, Recurring Payments Button, Repeat Visitor, Simple Payments...
Bravio to Develop fully Tokenized iGaming & Lottery Platform for LFE Group Holding
7.1.2020
Bravio Technologies Limited. ("Bravio" or the "Company") a lottery service provider that allows its national and international customers the opportunity to order and manage lottery tickets online, and the operator of FreeLotto.com, one of the largest online marketing and free member acquisition...
How to Sell Anything for Bitcoin on Your Website
7.1.2020
Selling things for bitcoin online doesn’t have to be hard. In fact, it shouldn’t be, given the decentralized nature and low fees of peer-to-peer electronic cash. For beginners and DIYers new to the world of creating an online bitcoin or crypto marketplace, this article seeks to provide...
Systems, Mistakes, and the Sea
6.1.2020
Our own Robin Rendle:
[...] folks can’t talk about real design systems problems because it will show their company as being dysfunctional and broken in some way. This looks bad for their company and hence looks bad for them. But hiding those mistakes and shortcomings by glossing over everything...
Neal.fun
2.1.2020
Hats off to Neal Agarwal for some stellar interactive work lately, like The Deep Sea, a vertical scrolling experience to help us understand the depth of the oceans, and The Size of Space, a side-scrolling experience to help us understand the size scale of things in the universe (check out Josh...
How to Build Your Resume on npm
2.1.2020
Just yesterday, Ali Churcher shared a neat way to make a resume using a CSS Grid layout. Let’s build off that a bit by creating a template that we can spin up whenever we want using the command line. The cool thing about that is that you’ll be able to run it with just one command.
I know...
Adding Dynamic And Async Functionality To JAMstack Sites
2.1.2020
Jason Lengstorf:
Here’s an incomplete list of things that I’ve repeatedly heard people claim the JAMstack can’t handle that it definitely can:
Load data asynchronously
Handle processing files, such as manipulating images
Read from and write to a database
Handle user authentication and protect...
Andreessen Horowitz: Bitcoin Will Usher in ‘Influencer Coins’ by 2030
2.1.2020
VC firm Andreessen Horowitz predicts that Bitcoin is likely to be central to online monetization in the 2020s
What We’re Reading, 2019
1.1.2020
There are so, so, so (so) many things to read out there on the internet. So many, in fact, that it's difficult to keep up with everything.
But, hey, we've got your back! It's our job to surface the best of the best and share it with you right here. That's why it's a good idea to subscribe to this...
GoGetSSL
26.12.2019
GoGetSSL is a company that sells SSL certificates. You know, those things that are required to make your site use https://, not http:// which doesn't feel like an optional choice these days with browsers making sites looks scarily insecure without it and search engines telling us is a ranking...
Tech Development, Investments and NFT to Drive Crypto Adoption in 2020
25.12.2019
The popularity of cryptocurrencies has grown in leaps and bounds over the past decade. However, these three global trends could take crypto even further into the mainstream in 2020
Insurance Industry Eyes Blockchain as Top Firms Begin Tests
25.12.2019
Insuring giant Anthem looks to blockchain to secure their customer data
Blockchain of Things Pays SEC $250,000 to Settle Unregistered ICO
19.12.2019
Internet startup Blockchain of Things has agreed to pay $250,000 to settle with the SEC over its $13 million ICO
Two Lessons I Learned From Making React Components
19.12.2019
Here’s a couple of lessons I’ve learned about how not to build React components. These are things I've come across over the past couple of months and thought they might be of interest to you if you’re working on a design system, especially one with a bunch of legacy technical decisions and a lot...
The Making of a “Special Series” on a WordPress Site
18.12.2019
We just ran a fancy article series here on CSS-Tricks with a bunch of different articles all answering the same question. By fancy, I mean two things:
The articles had a specially-designed template just for them. (Example)
The series has a specially-designed landing page.
One of the reasons...