Ya know, I used to do one of these posts after making a few podcast appearances I hadn’t had a chance to link up yet, so I could share them. As fate would have it, I haven’t been on many podcasts (other than my own) lately. One exception! I was on Episode 33 of That […]
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I read a recent Smashing Magazine post that included a recommendation for Hygen. I just happen to be doing quite a bit of new UI work in a Next.js app and the amount of manual folder/file scaffolding I was …
Josh’s Shadow Palette Generator is a fantastic tool. The premise is that box-shadow pretty much always looks better when there are multiple layered shadows that are a bit tinted. It reminds me of how gradients almost always look better when …
So what is the one thing that people can do is to make their website better? To answer that, let’s take a step back in time …
The year is 1998, and the web is on the rise. In an …
Amazon has a vision with AWS Amplify. First, a premise:
As browsers have become faster and more powerful over the last decade, front-end developers are building web apps that are more feature-rich and performant for both desktop and mobile …
I wanted to write down what I think the reasons are here in December of 2021 so that we might revisit it from time to time in the future and see if these reasons are still relevant. I’m a web …
Say you’ve got a two-column CSS grid and you want one of those columns to behave like position: sticky;. There is nothing stopping you from doing that. But the default height for those two columns is going to be …
Take two minutes right now and visit your current project in a browser. Then, using only the Tab key, you should be able to navigate between interactive elements including buttons, links, and form elements.
If you are sighted, you should…
Quick hits! There is a new web API called EyeDropper:
if ('EyeDropper' in window) {
const eyeDropper = new EyeDropper();
try {
// This has gotta be triggered by a user interaction,
// so consider this pseudo-code.
const result This is a fantastic article from Julia Evans about duking it out with modern front-end tooling. Julia has made a bunch of Vue projects and typically uses no build process at all:
…I usually have an
index.htmlfile, ascript.js
From my perspective, the question of what one thing we can do to make a website better is not a technical one. The more I browse the internet, the more I realize that the biggest issue with a lot of …
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