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Practical Accessibility Tips You Can Apply Today
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Published: October 3, 2024 12:54
We’ve all been there—rushing to meet a deadline, we throw together a dropdown menu or modal without fully considering its accessibility. But what if making a few small changes could drastically improve the experience for a broader range of users?…
I wasted a day on CSS selector performance to make a website load 2ms faster
Published: October 2, 2024 11:00
Being the co-author of Every Layout and a super fan of wildcard selectors, as you can imagine, my mentions and DMs have been riddled with “wildcards are incredibly inefficient” for years. I of course brush that off because as Trys says in their article,…
Introducing TODS – a typographic and OpenType default stylesheet
Published: September 26, 2024 13:00
I’ve always been a Richard Rutter fanboy, so seeing my CSS reset cited in their new reset fills me with pride. When it comes to web typography, Richard knows more than most and shares this vast knowledge really well with TODS. There’s a near 100% guarantee…
A guide to destructuring in JavaScript
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Published: September 25, 2024 14:32
If you’ve spent plenty of time wading through modern JavaScript, odds are you’ve seen enough ellipses (...) to put even the most brooding 90s role-playing game protagonist to shame. I wouldn’t fault you for finding them a little confusing. Granted, I…
Masonry and good defaults
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Published: September 23, 2024 10:00
My stance on masonry arriving in CSS is pretty clear: get the focus situation sorted and then I might be more interested. I personally think masonry is quite an antiquated design pattern, but it still finds itself on the web a lot so not needing JavaScript…
The Undeniable Utility Of CSS
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Published: September 18, 2024 23:00
What I really like about this article is how Josh explains how :has() works. They’re especially good at that sort of thing. There’s lots of good real-world examples in there too which compliments the vibe I was trying to achieve earlier in the year. We…
How I build a button component
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Published: September 18, 2024 00:00
A button is arguably the most likely component to find itself in your codebase so I’m going to show you how I approach building one. The hope is it demystifies the humble button and encourages folks who reach for a <div> and a JavaScript handler to use…
Ahmad Shadeed has a really nice new website
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Published: September 16, 2024 09:00
I’m highlighting this new redesign of Ahmad Shadeed’s website because it ticks so many boxes for me as excellent work. First up, it’s clean, considered and uses typography and space really well. Ahmad’s site is a combination of a personal site and a…
Daily Dev
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Published: September 13, 2024 00:00
Look, Twitter is trash now, let’s be honest. It used to be a gold mine for discovering stuff as a developer, but since the Musk takeover, finding anything of value is hard. We’re all fragmented now too, spread around Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads and…
CSS @property and the New Style
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Published: September 11, 2024 12:00
I’ve mentioned it before but practical, easy-to-understand articles are what make things stick in my brain. That’s exactly what Ryan Mulligan has cooked up for us. I’ve only slightly touched @property — mainly for container filling text — because I don’t…