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Netlify Identity, a Key Aspect to Jamstack Development
12.1.2022
(This is a sponsored post.)
Netlify is amazing at static file hosting, but it’s really so much more than that. You can build any sort of website, even highly dynamic apps, with the Jamstack approach and static file hosting …
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What Would it Take to Prevent CSS Tooltips From Overflowing?
12.1.2022
Say you have an elements with CSS tooltips and you’re going to position those tooltips such that it opens up next to the element on hover (or probably better: when clicked/tapped). Next to it where? Above it? What if the …
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Adding Vite to Your Existing Web App
11.1.2022
Vite (pronounced “veet”) is a newish JavaScript bundler. It comes batteries-included, requires almost no configuration to be useful, and includes plenty of configuration options. Oh—and it’s fast. Incredibly fast.
This post will walk through the process of converting an existing …
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How to Use Native Custom Fields in WordPress (and 5 Useful Examples)
11.1.2022
Custom Fields in WordPress are arbitrary bits of data that you can apply to Posts, Pages, and Custom Post Types in WordPress. Metadata, as it were, in the form of key/value pairs. For example:
Key: subtitle / Value: They are
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What is Chromium Without Chrome on Top?
10.1.2022
Raw Chromium, perhaps?
So, Chrome is based on Chromium which is open-source. Chrome is Chromium with Google’s extra stuff on top of it. What extra stuff? Kinda lots! A few years ago, The Verge published “Microsoft reveals all the …
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Don’t Fight the Cascade, Control It!
10.1.2022
If you’re disciplined and make use of the inheritance that the CSS cascade provides, you’ll end up writing less CSS. But because our styles often comes from all kinds of sources — and can be a pain to structure and …
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8 Interesting Typography Links for January 2022
7.1.2022
Every now and then, I find that I’ve accumulated a bunch of links about various things I find interesting. Typography is one of those things! Here’s a list of typography links to other articles that I’ve been saving up and …
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Adam Argyle’s Sick Mouse-Out CSS Hover Effect
7.1.2022
I was killing some time browsing my CodePen feed for some eye candy and didn’t need to go past the first page before spotting a neat CSS hover effect by Adam Argyle.
I must’ve spent 10 minutes just staring …
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useRainbow()
7.1.2022
I took a break from work and started some small, personal projects (toys). One of those small projects is potato.horse where I keep all of my doodles, visual short stories and jokes. Check it out!
However, this post is not …
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A New Container Query Polyfill That Just Works
6.1.2022
There is an easy-to-use CSS container query polyfill now. You essentially conditionally load it and forget about it. Then write spec-compliant container queries code.
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The Search For a Fixed Background Effect With Inline Images
6.1.2022
I was working on a client project a few days ago and wanted to create a certain effect on an <img>. See, background images can do the effect I was looking for somewhat easily with background-attachment: fixed;. With …
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The Search For a Fixed Background Effect With Inline Images
6.1.2022
I was working on a client project a few days ago and wanted to create a certain effect on an <img>. See, background images can do the effect I was looking for somewhat easily with background-attachment: fixed;. With …
The Search For a Fixed Background Effect With Inline Images...
Notes on Josh Comeau’s Custom CSS Reset
5.1.2022
We recently talked with Elad Shechter on his new CSS reset, and shortly after that Josh Comeau blogged his.
We’re in something of a new era of CSS resets where… you kind of don’t need one? There isn’t …
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How to Make a Component That Supports Multiple Frameworks in a Monorepo
5.1.2022
Your mission — should you decide to accept it — is to build a Button component in four frameworks, but, only use one button.css file!
This idea is very important to me. I’ve been working on a component library called …
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Diagonal Stripes Wipe Animation
30.11.2021
I was playing this game on Apple Arcade the other day called wurdweb. It’s a fun little game! Little touches like the little shape dudes that walk around the screen (but otherwise don’t do anything) give it a lot …
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Using the Reflog to Restore Lost Commits
30.11.2021
This article is part of our “Advanced Git” series. Be sure to follow us on Twitter or sign up for our newsletter to hear about future articles!
The “Reflog” is one of Git’s lesser-known features—but one that can be extremely …
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A Look at the Cloudinary WordPress Plugin
30.11.2021
(This is a sponsored post.)
Cloudinary (the media hosting and optimization service) has a brand new version (v3) of its WordPress plugin that has really nailed it. First, a high-level look at the biggest things this plugin does:
It
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Recreating the Apple Music Hits Playlist Animation in CSS
29.11.2021
Apple Music has this “Spatial Audio” feature where the direction of the music in your headphones is based on the location of the device. It’s tough to explain just how neat it is. But that’s not what I’m here to …
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We Analyzed 425,909 Favicons
29.11.2021
This is a neat idea for a research project. The big map is fun, but the research had some tidbits in it worth looking at.
The average favicon network request takes 130ms, at least from our speedy cloud instance.
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When is it “Right” to Reach for contain and will-change in CSS?
26.11.2021
I’ve got some blind spots in CSS-related performance things. One example is the will-change property. It’s a good name. You’re telling the browser some particular property (or the scroll-position or content) uh, will, change:
.el {
will-change: opacity;
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