Roundup of Recent Document Outline Chatter

It’s not everyday that HTML headings are the topic de jour, but my folder of saved links is accumulating articles about the recently merged removal of the document outline algorithm in the WHATWG Living Standard.
First off, you should know … Roundup of Recent Document Outline Chatter…

Logical Properties for Useful Shorthands

Michelle Barker with my favorite sorta blog post: short, practical, and leaves you with a valuable nugget for your time. Here, she gets into logical property shorthands in CSS, particularly those that set lengths just on a single axis, … Logical Properties for Useful Shorthands originally…

How stroke-dasharray Patterns Work

Say you have a line in SVG:
<svg<line x1=”0″ y1=”30″ x2=”500″ y2=”30″ stroke-color=”#f8a100″ /</svg
You can use the stroke-dasharray property in CSS to make dashes:
line { stroke-dasharray: 5;
}
That 5 value is a relative unit based … How stroke-dasharray Patterns Work originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter….

Office Spaces

I think it’s super timely that Jim Nielson wrote about his office space the other day. My family recently re-rooted in Colorado and I was up late last night setting up my desk and everything around it. So late, in … Office Spaces originally published on…

React Hooks: The Deep Cuts

Hooks are reusable functions. They allow you to use state and other features (e.g. lifecycle methods and so on) without writing a class. Hook functions let us “hook into” the React state lifecycle using functional components, allowing us to manipulate … React Hooks: The Deep Cuts…

In Praise of Shadows

Our dear friend Robin has a new essay called In Praise of Shadows. Now, before you hop over there looking for nuggets on CSS box shadows, text shadows, and shadow filters… this is not that. It’s an essay … In Praise of Shadows originally published on…

Technical Writing for Developers

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, PHP, C++, Dart — there are so many programming languages out there and you may even be totally fluent in several of them! But as we aim to write more and better code, the way we … Technical Writing for Developers originally…

What To Do With All Those Spare Creative Ideas

There are many ways you can deal with all those spare creative ideas. Here are some suggestions on what you can do with them.
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Single Element Loaders: Going 3D!

For this fourth and final article of our little series on single-element loaders, we are going to explore 3D patterns. When creating a 3D element, it’s hard to imagine that just one HTML element is enough to simulate something like all six faces of a cube. But  maybe we can get away … Single Element Loaders: Going 3D! originally published…

Bunny Fonts

Bunny Fonts bills itself as the “privacy-first web font platform designed to put privacy back into the internet.”According to its FAQ: With a zero-tracking and no-logging policy, Bunny Fonts helps you stay fully GDPR compliant and puts your user’s personal … Bunny Fonts originally published on…