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Create Diagonal Layouts Like it’s 2020
9.4.2020
Nils Binder covers the ways:
1. Use an SVG in the form of a triangle. This technique is nicely described by Erik Kennedy on CSS-Tricks.
2. Hide part of your section using clip-path. Read Diagonal Containers in CSS by Sebastiano Guerriero or Sloped edges with consistent angle...
The WebAIM Million—Updated
8.4.2020
This report made a big splash last year. It’s a large chunk of research that shows just how terribly the web does with accessibility. It’s been updated this year and (drumroll…) we got a little worse. I’ll use their blockquote:
The number of errors increased 2.1% between...
DataDash’s In-Depth Guide to Swing-Trading Cryptocurrencies
8.4.2020
CoinMarketCap and Nicholas Merten of DataDash have launched a series on the strategies for trading and investing in cryptocurrencies. Nicholas’sContinue Reading
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Learn Eleventy From Scratch
7.4.2020
The latest edition of Andy Bell’s Piccalilli landed in my inbox this morning with a sweet offer: preorder Andy’s course on learning Eleventy from scratch at a third of the price.
Why the plug? No, not sponsorships or anything like that. I just happen to hear a heckuva lot about Eleventy...
CSS Findings From The New Facebook Design
7.4.2020
Ahmad Shadeed digs around the new Facebook’s front-end code.
One that stood out to me:
.element {
inset: 4px 0;
/* Which is equivalent to: top: 4px, bottom: 4px, left: 0, right: 0 */
}
Whaaat? This is the first I’ve heard of the inset property. Ahmad said he saw it working...
“What You Said” (Apr. 6), a Weekly Round-Up of Sentiments From the Community
6.4.2020
Welcome back, CoinMarketCap family! Glad to see you back here again for another week’s edition of “What You Said“! Let’sContinue Reading
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3 Blockchain Productivity Tools for Remote Work in Times of COVID-19
6.4.2020
The emergence of the coronavirus has left many of us struggling to recognize the world around us. One of theContinue Reading
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CSS-Only Marquee Effect
5.4.2020
You make sure the text is more than twice the width of the screen, then use negative translate animations to do the marquee movement.
You’ll probably want to aria-hidden all but one of them if you need to duplicate the text. Or, you could use a very clever CSS trick...
A Glimpse Into CoinMarketCap’s WFH Setup
4.4.2020
Hey CMC-fam! How are you guys holding up working from home?  We understand that increasingly more people around the worldContinue Reading
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A Glimpse Into CoinMarketCap’s Work From Home Setup
4.4.2020
Hey CMC-fam! How are you guys holding up working from home? We understand that increasingly more people around the worldContinue Reading
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Google’s Technical Writing Guide
3.4.2020
It’s good!
I’ve written up my advice (sprinkled with great advice from others), but this is way more straightforward nuts-and-bolts training on technical writing. It’s structured like an actual course, with exercises along the way.
I’m far from an expert here. But between...
typespecimens.io
2.4.2020
If you’re looking for a new typeface for that side project of yours then here’s a great website by John D. Jameson that collects a bunch of the latest type specimen websites. Everything is on display here, from the daring and bold, to those that are a bit more professional and reserved.
Not only...
A Letter to Our Users Post-Acquisition
2.4.2020
Following the recent acquisition news, Brandon Chez, the founder of CoinMarketCap, and Carylyne Chan, the interim CEO, shared their personalContinue Reading
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Binance and CoinMarketCap Announce Acquisition to Collectively Make Cryptocurrency More Accessible for Everyone
2.4.2020
The global blockchain company behind the world’s largest digital asset exchange by trading volume and users, Binance, today announced thatContinue Reading
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An Annotated Docker Config for Front-End Web Development
2.4.2020
Andrew Welch sings the praises of using Docker containers for local dev environments:
Here are the advantages of Docker for me:
• Each application has exactly the environment it needs to run, including specific versions of any of the plumbing needed to get it to work (PHP, MySQL...
Let a website be a worry stone
1.4.2020
Ethan Marcotte just redesigned his website and wrote about how the process was a distraction from the difficult things that are going on right now. Adding new features to your blog or your portfolio, tidying up performance issues, and improving things bit by bit can certainly relieve a lot...
Toilet Paper Token Wipe Paper
31.3.2020
A roll call for all true believers! An Introduction to Toilet Paper The evolution of modern day toilet paper hasContinue Reading
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Wide Gamut Color in CSS with Display-P3
31.3.2020
Here’s something I’d never heard of before: Display-P3 support in CSS Color Module Level 4 spec. This is a new color profile supported by certain displays and it introduces a much wider range of colors that we can choose from.
Right now the syntax looks something like this in CSS:
header...
“What You Said” (Mar. 30), a Weekly Round-Up of Sentiments From the Community
30.3.2020
It’s been a minute, CoinMarketCap-ers! Glad to see you back here again for another week’s edition of “What You Said“!Continue Reading
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Creating a Pencil Effect in SVG
28.3.2020
Scott Turner, who has an entire blog "Exploring procedural generation and display of fantasy maps", gets into why vector graphics seems on these surface why it would be bad for the look of a pencil stroke:
Something like this pencil stroke would require many tens of thousands of different...