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Create Your First Visual Studio Code Extension
26.2.2019
When Visual Studio Code doesn't do what you want it to, you install an extension. When you can't find an extension that does exactly what you need, you create your own! In this article, we will loo
Everything you Need to Know About Prototyping Natively in Sketch
25.2.2019
For many designers, Sketch adding a prototyping feature last year is a Godsend. It’s a great tool to help to streamline our workflows and increase our productivity when we...
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Using CSS Grid the right way
22.2.2019
Violet Peña has shared her recommendations for using CSS Grid. They basically boil down to these high-level points:
Use names instead of numbers for setting up our grid columns.
fr should be our flexible unit of choice.
We don’t really need a grid system anymore.
Although this is all great advice...
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20.2.2019
Did you see this Facebook crap?
"Why do I need a 4Ghz quadcore to run facebook?" This is why. A single word split up into 11 HTML DOM elements to avoid adblockers. pic.twitter.com/Zv4RfInrL0
— Mike Pan (@themikepan) February 6, 2019
I popped over to Facebook to verify that and what...
Building a Landing Page Fast Using the Visual Composer Website Builder (Sponsored)
20.2.2019
What if it were possible to build a landing page from top to bottom, including a header and a footer, and do so without any need for writing code? And even if it was possible, could you reasonably expect to do so as easily and quickly as putting together a puzzle designed for children...
Crypto Tax Season: What you need to know
20.2.2019
The basics to keep in mind when filing your tax returns involving cryptocurrencies this year. From the CMC Editorial Desk: It’s… taaaax season. Before you panic, what do you need to know as you’re filing returns on your crypto? Find […]
The post Crypto Tax Season: What...
The Ultimate Guide to JavaScript Algorithms: Combining Arrays Without Duplicates
19.2.2019
Combining Arrays Without Duplicates
When developing software, we often need to combine data efficiently and without repetition. This often comes up when manipulating listed data with the use Arrays
The Smart Ways to Correct Mistakes in Git
14.2.2019
The world of software development offers an infinite amount of ways to mess up: deleting the wrong things, coding into dead ends, littering commit messages with typos, are a mere few of the plentitude.
Fortunately, however, we have a wonderful safety net under our feet in the form of Git when...
HTML, CSS and our vanishing industry entry points
7.2.2019
Rachel Andrew:
There is something remarkable about the fact that, with everything we have created in the past 20 years or so, I can still take a complete beginner and teach them to build a simple webpage with HTML and CSS, in a day. We don’t need to talk about tools or frameworks, learn how...
Set Desktop Wallpaper from Command Line on Mac
31.1.2019
Whenever I need to accomplish a basic task that typically calls for interacting with a UI, I challenge myself to complete the task from command line. After all, most UIs are simply a mask over basic commands, especially when it comes to the operating system. Suddenly I feel like an automation...
The Ultimate Guide to JavaScript Algorithms: Sentence Capitalization
28.1.2019
Sentence Capitalization
Often times, situations arise in which we need to manipulate the letter casing of stings within our applications usually for presentational purposes. JavaScript off
Need to Test API Endpoints? Two Quick Ways to Do It.
25.1.2019
Here's a possibility! Perhaps you are testing your JavaScript with a framework like Jasmine. That's nice because you can write lots of tests to cover your application, get a nice little UI to see the output, and even integrate it with build and deploy tools to make your ongoing development work...
Top 10 Podcasts for Web Developers
22.1.2019
A Web Developer's need to learn never ends, so what better way to take in the latest technologies than listening to a podcast?! You can listen while you drive, clean the house, take a shower (no ju
The Secret Weapon to Learning CSS
22.1.2019
For some reason, I’ve lately been thinking a lot about what it takes to break into the web design industry and learn CSS. I reckon it has something to do with Keith Grant’s post earlier this month on a CSS mental model where he talks about a “common core for CSS”:
We need common core tricks like...
Amazing User Agent API with userstack
17.1.2019
We do our best to design and code websites so that they look and perform the way they should regardless of device or browser, but the truth is we sometimes we need to code for specific device, browser, or crawler. Whether it’s a quick hack or a simply wanting to display different content...
Using React Portals to Render Children Outside the DOM Hierarchy
15.1.2019
Say we need to render a child element into a React application. Easy right? That child is mounted to the nearest DOM element and rendered inside of it as a result.
render() {
return (
<div>
// Child to render inside of the div
</div>
);
}
But! What if we want...
Why we need CSS subgrid
11.1.2019
I’m a huge fan of CSS Grid and I use it on pretty much every project these days. However, there’s one part of it that makes things much more complicated than they really ought to be: the lack of subgrids. And in this post on the matter, Ken Bellows explains why they’d be so gosh darn useful:
But...
Algorithmic Layouts
10.1.2019
Don't miss this video by Heydon that digs into CSS layouts. It's great how he combines fundamental knowledge, like the way elements flow, wrap, and can have margin with new layout methods like flexbox and grid (with specific examples). Of particular note is the clear demonstration of how flexbox...
Multi-Line Inline Gradient
3.1.2019
Came across this thread:
CSS superfriends! Have you seen examples of how to do multi-line padded text like this article on @css (https://t.co/2j8p4jmaT4), but with a gradient that doesn't reset for each line? pic.twitter.com/MVPdAjxt1W
— Dan Mall (@danmall) December 3, 2018
My first...
Gradient Borders in CSS
28.12.2018
Let's say you need a gradient border around an element. My mind goes like this:
There is no simple obvious CSS API for this.
I'll just make a wrapper element with a linear-gradient background, then an inner element will block out most of that background, except a thin line of padding around...