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How to Add a Double Border to SVG Shapes
21.4.2021
Let’s say someone asks you to add a double border to some random geometric SVG shapes. For some reason, you can’t use any graphic editor — they need to be generated at runtime — so you have to solve it …
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Intrinsic Typography is the Future of Styling Text on the Web
20.4.2021
The way we style text hasn’t changed much over the years. There have been numerous advancements to help make things more flexible, like layouts, but in terms of styling, most finite aspects of our designs, like text, remain relatively unchanged. …
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Say Hello to CSS Container Queries
20.4.2021
Container queries are finally here! Now available behind a flag in the latest version of Chrome Canary, you can go ahead and experiment to your heart’s content. Oh, and if you’re not familiar with container queries then check out …
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How to Improve CSS Performance
19.4.2021
There is no doubt that CSS plays a huge role in web performance. Milica Mihajlija puts a point on exactly why:
When there is CSS available for a page, whether it’s inline or an external stylesheet, the browser delays rendering
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Float an Element to the Bottom Corner
19.4.2021
Need to lay out an element to the right or the left, such that text wraps around it? That’s an easy task for the float property. But what about if you also want to push that element (let’s call it …
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CSS Smooth Scroll
19.4.2021
Improving the user experience of web applications has always been a priority of mine. I always come back to the same though I’ve had for 20 years: “users expect a web app to work — let’s make the app a joy to use.” Over the years we’ve employed JavaScript...
Creating an Editable Textarea That Supports Syntax-Highlighted Code
16.4.2021
When I was working on a project that needed an editor component for source code, I really wanted a way to have that editor highlight the syntax its typed. There are projects like this, like CodeMirror, Ace, and …
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Platform News: Using :focus-visible, BBC’s New Typeface, Declarative Shadow DOMs, A11Y and Placeholders
16.4.2021
There’s a whole lot of accessibility in this week’s news, from the nuances of using :focus-visible and input placeholders, to accessible typefaces and a Safari bug with :display: contents. Plus, a snippet for a bare-bones web component that supports …
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Not Your Typical Horizontal Rules
16.4.2021
The default browser style for <hr> is so weird. It’s basically:
border-style: inset;
border-width: 1px;
The default border-color is black, but the border doesn’t actually look black, because the inset border “adds a split tone to the line …
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Flash of inAccurate coloR Theme (FART)
16.4.2021
There is a lot to think about when implementing a dark mode theme on a website. We have a huge guide on it. There are some very clever quick wins out there, but there are also some quite tricky things …
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The Importance of Career Laddering
15.4.2021
The title of this article is misleading. It’s not actually very important for an Engineering Manager to use career laddering, per se, or my process. It is, however, very important that an Engineering Manager is clear with their employees…
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How to Build a FullStack Serverless HN Clone With Svelte and Fauna
15.4.2021
Svelte is a free and open-source front end JavaScript framework that enables developers to build highly performant applications with smaller application bundles. Svelte also empowers developers with its awesome developer experience.
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Collective #657
15.4.2021
Natto * Glob Editor * Frontend Toolkit * Say Hello To CSS Container Queries
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Generating (and Solving!) Sudokus in CSS
15.4.2021
I love to make CSS do stuff it shouldn’t. It’s the type of problem-solving brain training you’d get building a calculator in Minecraft, except you probably won’t get a job working with Minecraft Redstone no matter how good you …
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Building a Settings Component
14.4.2021
This is a tremendous CSS-focused tutorial from Adam Argyle. I really like the “just for gap” concept here. Grid is extremely powerful, but you don’t have to use all its abilities every time you reach for it. Here, Adam …
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Building a Settings Component
14.4.2021
This is a tremendous CSS-focused tutorial from Adam Argyle. I really like the “just for gap” concept here. Grid is extremely powerful, but you don’t have to use all its abilities every time you reach for it. Here, Adam …
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Going “Meta GSAP”: The Quest for “Perfect” Infinite Scrolling
14.4.2021
I‘m not sure how this one came about. But, it‘s a story. This article is more about grokking a concept, one that’s going to help you think about your animations in a different way. It so happens that this particular …
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Cloud study
14.4.2021
This Robin Sloan fella is an interesting character. Not only have I read his one of his fiction novels, the tremendous Mr. Penumbra’s 24‑Hour Bookstore, but I also use the olive oil he makes with partner Kathryn Tomajan. …
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Why Netlify?
14.4.2021
I think it’s fair to think of Netlify as a CDN-backed static file host. But it would also be silly to think that’s all it is. That’s why I think it’s smart for them to have pages like this, comparing …
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CSS is a Strongly Typed Language
13.4.2021
One of the ways you can classify a programming language is by how strongly or weakly typed it is. Here, “typed” means if variables are known at compile time. An example of this would be a scenario where an integer …
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