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Links on Performance IV
3.9.2021
HTTP Caching is a Superpower — Hugh Haworth covers how the Cache-Control header is an awfully potent ingredient in web performance. I mis-read the title at first and was waiting to read about HTML caching. Hugh covers it a bit
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You don’t need external assets in an HTML file
2.9.2021
A fun exercise from Terence Eden. You can send an HTML file over the wire including anything a website might need without requesting any other files. CSS and JavaScript are easy, because there are <script and <style tags. Images and …
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Accessing Your Data With Netlify Functions and React
2.9.2021
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Static site generators are popular for their speed, security, and user experience. However, sometimes your application needs data that is not available when the site is built. React is a library for building user …
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Some Typography Links VII
1.9.2021
All-things-typography, from a hard-edged monospaced variable font to fonts in the "Twilight Zone" ... and much, much more.
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Application-Specific Links
31.8.2021
You know like https:? That’s a URL Scheme. You’re probably familiar with the concept, thanks to others that come up in front-end development, like mailto:. You can actually make your own, which is pretty cool. There …
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Exploring the CSS Paint API: Blob Animation
30.8.2021
After the fragmentation effect, I am going to tackle another interesting animation: the blob! We all agree that such effect is hard to achieve with CSS, so we generally reach for SVG to make those gooey shapes. But …
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The Fixed Background Attachment Hack
27.8.2021
What options do you have if you want the body background in a fixed position where it stays put on scroll? background-attachment: fixed in CSS, at best, does not work well in mobile browsers, and at worst is not even …
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Developers and Designers Work on a Single Source of Truth with UXPin
27.8.2021
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There is a conversation that has been percolating for as long as I’ve been in the web design and development industry. It’s centered around the conflict between design tools and development tools. The final …
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Some Articles About Accessibility I’ve Saved Recently III
26.8.2021
The perfect link — Rian Rietveld defines them: “When you click on them, they take you somewhere else.” Not much code in here (we’ve got that), just a lot of practical accessibility advice. For example, the alt text
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How I Made a Generator for SVG Loaders With Sass and SMIL Options
26.8.2021
While learning Vue.js, I started building free web tools that involved the exploration of SVG, with the goal of learning something about both! Let’s take a look at one of those tools: a generator that makes SVG loaders and …
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One Way to Convert Code Indentation
26.8.2021
A question:
If you copy a code sample that uses two-space indentation and you want to convert it to four-space indentation, what’s the *fastest* and easiest option?
Matt Stauffer, Twitter
I wrote about doing this in Sublime Text a …
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Stealing Game Animation Techniques to Engage Users
25.8.2021
Today’s websites are overflowing with animations—often too many. They get in the way of the content and slow down our busy users. But at the same time: they’re wonderful. They bring websites to life, are fun to implement and …
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Scrollbar Reflowing
24.8.2021
This is a bit of advice for developers on Macs I’ve heard quite a few times, and I’ll echo it: go into System Preferences > General > Show scroll bars and set to always. This isn’t about you, it’s …
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Introduction to the Solid JavaScript Library
24.8.2021
Solid is a reactive JavaScript library for creating user interfaces without a virtual DOM. It compiles templates down to real DOM nodes once and wraps updates in fine-grained reactions so that when state updates, only the related code runs.
This …
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Native JavaScript Routing?
23.8.2021
We can update the URL in JavaScript. We’ve got these APIs:
// Adds to browser history
history.pushState({}, "About Page", "/about");
// Doesn't
history.replaceState({}, "About Page", "/about");
JavaScript is also capable of replacing any content in the DOM....
“Disambiguating Tailwind”
20.8.2021
I appreciated this bit of nuance from a post on Viget’s blog:
There could be a whole article written about the many flavours of Tailwind, but broadly speaking those flavours are:
1. Stock tailwind, ie. no changes to the
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Creating a Headless WordPress Site With Frontity
20.8.2021
Frontity is a WordPress-focused React-based server-side dynamic-rendering framework (phew!) that allows us to create fast headless websites. Chris has a good introduction to Frontity. I guess you could think of it like Next.js for WordPress. And while the demand …
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The Big Gotcha With Custom Properties
19.8.2021
I’ve seen this confuse more than a handful of people recently, including myself, so I’m making sure it’s written down.
Let’s chuck a couple of custom properties into CSS:
html {
--color-1: red;
--color-2: blue;
}
Let’s use them right …
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Using Nuxt and Supabase for a Multi-User Blogging App
19.8.2021
Nuxt is a JavaScript framework that extends the existing functionality of Vue.js with features like server-side rendering, static page generation, file-based routing, and automatic code splitting among other things.
I’ve been enjoying using frameworks like Nuxt and Next because they …
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“We had 90% unused CSS because everybody was afraid to touch the old stuff”
19.8.2021
Over at the JS Party poundcast:
[Kend C. Dodds]: […] ask anybody who’s done regular, old CSS and they’ll tell you that “I don’t know if it’s okay for me to change this, so I’m gonna duplicate it.” And
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