
A question:
If you copy a code sample that uses two-space indentation and you want to convert it to four-space indentation, what’s the fastest and easiest option? Matt Stauffer, Twitter I wrote about doing this in Sublime Text a …
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Today’s websites are overflowing with animations—often too many. They get in the way of the content and slow down our busy users. But at the same time: they’re wonderful. They bring websites to life, are fun to implement and …
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(This is a sponsored post.) Free event hosted by Netlify coming up next week (Wednesday, August 25th): Architecting with Next.js. It’s just a little half-day thing. No brainer.
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This is a bit of advice for developers on Macs I’ve heard quite a few times, and I’ll echo it: go into System Preferences > General > Show scroll bars and set to always. This isn’t about you, it’s …
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Solid is a reactive JavaScript library for creating user interfaces without a virtual DOM. It compiles templates down to real DOM nodes once and wraps updates in fine-grained reactions so that when state updates, only the related code runs. This …
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You can’t just do @media (prefers-reduced-data: no-preference) alone because, as Kilian Valkhof says:
[…] that would be false if either there was no support (since the browser wouldn’t understand the media query) or if it was supported but the
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We can update the URL in JavaScript. We’ve got these APIs: // Adds to browser history history.pushState({}, "About Page", "/about");
// Doesn't history.replaceState({}, "About Page", "/about"); JavaScript is also capable of replacing any content in the DOM. // Hardcore document.body.innerHTML …
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I appreciated this bit of nuance from a post on Viget’s blog:
There could be a whole article written about the many flavours of Tailwind, but broadly speaking those flavours are:
- Stock tailwind, ie. no changes to the
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Frontity is a WordPress-focused React-based server-side dynamic-rendering framework (phew!) that allows us to create fast headless websites. Chris has a good introduction to Frontity. I guess you could think of it like Next.js for WordPress. And while the demand …
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I’ve seen this confuse more than a handful of people recently, including myself, so I’m making sure it’s written down. Let’s chuck a couple of custom properties into CSS: html { --color-1: red; --color-2: blue; } Let’s use them right …
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