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Kubernetes Explained Simply: Containers, Pods and Images
5.7.2021
If you zone out every time someone mentions “Kubernetes,” “containers,” or “pods,” this article is for you. No complex diagrams involved!
As a front-end developer, you don’t have to know how to configure an infrastructure from scratch. However, if you …
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The Fourteenth Fourth
4.7.2021
It’s CSS-Tricks birthday! Somehow that keeps coming around every year. It’s that time where I reflect upon that past year. It’s like the annual vibe check.
I’m writing this just days after my current home state of Oregon has …
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Zero-Width Space
2.7.2021
The name zero-width space is antithetical, but it’s not without uses. In text, maybe you’d use it around slashes because you want to be sure the words are treated individually but not have any physical space around the slash:…
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Good Meetings
2.7.2021
Like it or not, meetings are essential to a good working environment and communication. Therefore, it’s crucial that we work on making them as productive as possible. Today we’ll explore myriad ways to keep meetings coordinated, well documented, and talk …
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The Trick to Enable Printify Shipping Notifications for Orders in WooCommerce? Customer Notes.
2.7.2021
This is a super niche blog post. But it’s been on my list forever to write down because this caused me grief for far too long.
The setup is that you can use WooCommerce to sell things on a WordPress …
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App Platform on Digital Ocean
1.7.2021
This is new stuff from DO.
App Platform is a hosting product, no surprise there, but it has some features that are Jamstack-inspired in the best possible way, and an additional set of unique and powerful features. Let’s start with …
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Hack the “Deploy to Netlify” Button Using Environment Variables to Make a Customizable Site Generator
1.7.2021
If you’re anything like me, you like being lazy shortcuts. The “Deploy to Netlify” button allows me to take this lovely feature of my personality and be productive with it.
Clicking the button above lets me (or you!) instantly …
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How do you make a layout with pictures down one side of a page matched up with paragraphs on the other side?
30.6.2021
I got this exact question in an email the other day, and I thought it would make a nice blog post because of how wonderfully satisfying this is to do in CSS these days. Plus we can sprinkle in polish …
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When a Click is Not Just a Click
30.6.2021
The click event is quite simple and easy to use; you listen for the event and run code when the event is fired. It works on just about every HTML element there is, a core feature of the DOM API.…
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Fixing a Bug in Low-Resolution Mode
30.6.2021
I was working on a bug ticket the other day where it was reported that an icon was sitting low in a button. Just not aligned like it should be. I had to go on a little journey to figure …
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What does `font: 110%/1.4 system-ui` mean?
30.6.2021
I use this line, or one like it, in a lot of quick demos. Not that it’s not a production-worthy line of code—I just tend to be a bit more explicit on bigger projects.
html {
font: 110%/1.4 system-ui;
}
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:nth-child Between Two Fixed Indexes
29.6.2021
I needed to select some elements between two fixed indexes the other day — like literally the second through fifth elements. Ironically, I have a whole post on “Useful :nth-child Recipes” but this wasn’t one of them.
The answer, it …
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System *Things
29.6.2021
I think we’re all largely aware of named colors in CSS:
color: OldLace;
background: rebeccapurple;
I guess you’d just call those “named colors” in CSS.
Those aren’t the only kind of named colors there are though. Some of them …
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Positioning Overlay Content with CSS Grid
28.6.2021
Not news to any web developer in 2021: CSS Grid is an incredibly powerful tool for creating complex, distinct two-dimensional modern web layouts.
Recently, I have been experimenting with CSS Grid and alignment properties to create component layouts that …
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Scaling Organizations Should Consider Building a Website Backed by a CRM Platform
28.6.2021
To make some terminology clear here:
CMS = Content Management System
CRM = Customer Relationship Management
Both are essentially database-backed systems for managing data. HubSpot is both, and much more. Where a CMS might be very focused on content and …
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Custom Property Brain Twisters
25.6.2021
I am part of that 82% that got the answer to Lea Verou's quiz wrong. Stephen Shaw posted a similar quiz as well and it's a fun exercise sharpen your CSS chops.
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How to Cancel Pending API Requests to Show Correct Data
25.6.2021
I recently had to create a widget in React that fetches data from multiple API endpoints. As the user clicks around, new data is fetched and marshalled into the UI. But it caused some problems.
One problem quickly became evident: …
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Chapter 9: Community
24.6.2021
In April of 2009, Yahoo! shut down GeoCities. Practically overnight, the once beloved service had its signup page replaced with a vague message announcing its closure.
We have decided to discontinue the process of allowing new customers to sign up
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Using Performant Next-Gen Images in CSS with image-set
23.6.2021
The CSS image-set() function has been supported in Chromium-based browsers since 2012 and in Safari since version 6. Support recently landed in Firefox 88. Let’s dive in and see what we can and can’t do today with image-set().…
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“Weak declaration”
23.6.2021
PPK looks at aspect-ratio, a CSS property for layout that, for the most part, does exactly what you would think it does. It’s getting more interesting as it’s behind a flag in Firefox and Safari now, so we’ll have …
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