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The Popeye Moment
25.11.2019
Frank Chimero is redesigning "in the open" and we should pay attention to it because (1) we should listen to anything Frank has to say because he's a great designer and writer and (2) working in public is awesome.
But the gut punch for me in this opening article is the way Frank pulls zero punches...
Playing Sounds with CSS
25.11.2019
CSS is the domain of styling, layout, and presentation. It is full of colors, sizes, and animations. But did you know that it could also control when a sound plays on a web page?
This article is about a little trick to pull that off. It’s actually a strict implementation of the HTML and CSS,...
The New Good Ol’ Days
22.11.2019
Eighteen years into this game, I love to reminisce back to the good ol’ days of the early to mid-2000s when there was an explosion of creativity on the web. It felt fresh and unbridled, with boundaries expected to be pushed at every turn, and they were. This was mainly down to one thing, the thing...
Weekly Platform News: Contrast Ratio Range, replaceAll Method, Native File System API
22.11.2019
In this week's roundup: Firefox's new contrast checker, a simpler way to lasso substrings in a string, and a new experimental API that will let apps fiddle with a user's local files.
Firefox shows the contrast ratio range for text on a multicolored background
According to Success Criterion 1.4.3...
What the web still is
21.11.2019
Being a pessimist is an easy thing to fall back on, and I’m trying to be better about it. As we close the year out, I thought it would be a good exercise to take stock of the state of the web and count our blessings.
Versatile
We don't use the internet to do just one thing. With more than...
Embracing the Universal Web
21.11.2019
There are constantly new features appearing in browsers—from subgrid to variable fonts to better developer tools. It's a really great time to be re-thinking everything we know about design on the web. Responsive design has served us well over the years, but it's still rooted in the limitations...
US Think Tank Releases Report on Investigation Into Illicit Transactions on the Dark Web
21.11.2019
U.S. think thank releases a report on the future of investigating illicit transactions on the dark web, including tracing crypto use
It’s my job, and yours.
21.11.2019
The role of ethics in our modern web space has been on my mind for the past few years and I suspect it will occupy my thoughts increasingly as I move forward. With each encounter of a questionable feature or setting on a website, I can't help but think of all of the people involved and...
The future is bright, because the future is static
20.11.2019
I've been doing this web thing for money for 10 years this year and although I haven’t been around as long as some folks, I feel like I've seen a few cycles come and go now, so let's say that hot new things are often cynically viewed, initially. This milestone of mine has also got me in...
Web 3.0 Initiatives Can Drive Crypto Adoption Across the Globe
20.11.2019
Opera is joining other companies to use existing traditional networks to encourage crypto adoption
The Typed Object Model
20.11.2019
I help write technical documentation and one feature I've been writing about this year that has really stood out is the Typed Object Model (or Typed OM). If you haven't come across it yet you would be forgiven as it's pretty new. It falls under the CSS Houdini suite of API's and on the surface...
Variations on Theme: Reinventing Type on the Web
20.11.2019
If anyone knows anything about me, it’s usually one of two things: that I have two outrageously fluffy dogs, or that I like fonts and typography. Like, really really like them. So while I am super excited about how well Tristan is doing with his hydrotherapy —we’re walking 50% further than he...
[aktualita] Seznam Zprávy mají nový web a logo, nově se zaměří na byznys, analýzy a komentáře
20.11.2019
Původní zpravodajství Seznamu dostalo novou tvář. Seznam Zprávy spustily nový web a oznamují i posun v tematickém zaměření. Podle šéfredaktora Jiřího Kubíka má být server „… zdrojem původních informací, nezávislé investigace a originální publicistiky, včetně zbrusu nových videoformátů.“ Nový...
No, Absolutely Not
19.11.2019
I think the difference between a junior and senior front-end developer isn't in their understanding or familiarity with a particular tech stack, toolchain, or whether they can write flawless code. Instead, it all comes down to this: how they push back against bad ideas.
What I've learned this year...
Six Months Using Firebase Web Performance Monitoring
19.11.2019
I don't really think of Firebase as a performance monitoring tool (all I ever think about is auth and real-time data storage), but nevertheless, it totally has that feature.
Justin Ribeiro...
[A] tool to track what real users in the wild are experiencing with an easy setup? Yes, please. [...]...
Real-Time Google Search Results API with serpstack (Sponsored)
19.11.2019
In my early web days, I was interested in scraping and collecting data based on the results of Google searches. Scraping Google was easier in those days but now Google search results are so dynamic that you can’t rely on getting the same HTML or data structure back. Add in CAPTCHAs, rate...
Teaching CSS
19.11.2019
I've been using CSS as a web developer since CSS became something we could actually use. My first websites were built using <font> tags and <table>s for layout. I remember arguments about whether this whole CSS thing was a good idea at all. I was quickly convinced, mostly due to...
The Communal Cycle of Sharing
18.11.2019
What I'm interested in this year is how we're continuing to expand on tools, services, and shared side projects to collectively guide where we take the web next, and the way we're sharing that.
So many other mediums—mostly analog ones—have been around for ages and have a deeper history. In...
The Best Cocktail in Town
18.11.2019
I admit I've held in a lot of pent-up frustration about the direction web development has taken the past few years. There is the complexity. It requires a steep learning curve. It focuses more on more configuration than it does development.
That's not exactly great news for folks like me...
The Kind of Development I Like
18.11.2019
I'm turning 40 next year (yikes!) and even though I've been making websites for over 25 years, I feel like I'm finally beginning to understand the kind of development I like. Expectedly, these are not new revelations and my views can be summed up by two older Computer Science adages that pre-date...