Turns out you can use several different libraries to pass color information around components. Or, you could use custom properties, built right into CSS, have no decline in your own developer experience, and deliver a faster experience to your users. …
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Blobs are the smooth, random, jelly-like shapes that have a whimsical quality and are just plain fun. They can be used as illustration elements and background effects on the web. So, how are they made? Just crack open an illustration …
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I’ve been a manager for many years at companies of different scale. Through these experiences, I’ve done my share of learning, and made some mistakes along that way that were important lessons for me. I want to share those with …
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https://css-tricks.com/mistakes-ive-made-as-an-engineering-manager/
Simeon Griggs with some nice UX ideas for a recipe website:
No math. Swap between units and adjust servings on-the-fly. Offer alternative ingredients. Re-list the ingredient amounts when they’re referenced in the instructions.
I totally agree, especially on that last …
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https://www.simeongriggs.dev/designing-a-more-complete-recipe-website
Zach takes a look at some fundamental HTML+CSS usage for fluid, responsive images. Most of it, I’d say, is what you’d expect, but things get weird when srcset gets involved. I poked my way through, and in addition to the …
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HTML has a built-in native audio player interface that we get simply using the element. Point it to a sound file and that’s all there is to it. We even get to specify multiple files for better browser support, …
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I’ve been enjoying these little “You want…” style posts. Post titles like that are a little more… forceful for my normal taste, but I like the spirit of sharing a best practice that perhaps isn’t well-known-enough.
Killian started it with
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Some nice coverage from Andy about CSS things that are truly new. If you haven’t looked at new things in CSS in, say, a year, I’d bet pretty much all of this will be new to you. A lot of …
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https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/02/things-you-can-do-with-css-today/
CSS is yet to have a switch rule or conditional if, aside from the specific nature of @media queries and some deep trickery with CSS custom properties. Let’s have a look at why it would be useful if we …
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I like Andy’s idea here: .wrapper { width: clamp(16rem, 90vw, 70rem); margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 1.5rem; padding-right: 1.5rem; } Normally I’d just set a max-width there, but as Andy says:
This becomes a slight issue in mid-sized viewports, such
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