Links from 2016
- PostCSS Mythbusting: Four PostCSS Myths Busted sitepoint.com
With the introduction of any new front-end tool, there comes the important questions with regard to its potential value in an already congested marketplace.…
- Cleaning Up a CSS Codebase sitepoint.com
You have just been onboarded to an existing project to replace a departing developer. Or maybe you just opened that old project of yours from a few years ago.…
- Telegram Bots: An introduction for developers core.telegram.org
There are two kinds of HTML: HTML that makes up templates HTML that is content I feel like some discussions about HTML are clouded by not making this…
- Introducing Design Systems Ops — Medium medium.com
Design Systems Ops: shipping (design) at scale. Design Systems Ops The best products are built by teams with great communication bridges between designers and…
- Precise control over responsive typography · MadebyMike madebymike.com.au
Precise control over responsive typography 17 Mar 2015 It is possible to have precise control over responsive typography. Using calc() and viewport units you…
- About rel=noopener mathiasbynens.github.io
0m6 you’ve been h4ck3d!!1one!shift!!!1 💩 About rel=noopener What problems does it solve? You’re currently viewing index.html. Imagine the following is…
Image “Question!” by Stefan Baudy, CC BY 2.0So, you’re starting a brand new JavaScript front end project or overhauling an old one, and maybe you haven’t kept…
Instagram-style filters in HTML5 Canvas Nate Hunzaker, Senior Front-End Developer Posted in #Code , #Front-end Engineering on March 10, 2016 So began my journey…
- A technical guide to SEO ma.ttias.be
If you're the owner or maintainer of a website, you know SEO matters. A lot. This guide is meant to be an accurate list of all technical aspects of search…
- Home: Bubblin Superbooks bubbl.in
Home: Bubblin Superbooks Bubblin Flipbooks beta Sign up Login Sign in New user? Sign up Keyboard shortcuts Site commands ⌘ + K: See shortcuts ⌘ + G: Go home ⌘ +…
- npmsearch - node.js Package Search Utility npmsearch.com
- A Year Without jQuery blog.wearecolony.com
I joined We Are Colony back in Summer 2014. Six months into the job, we came to a point in our product development requiring the addition of several large…
The following is an unedited extract from my forthcoming book. I chose this chapter because I felt it would be useful standing on its own. I should point out…
- The Kid Should See This thekidshouldseethis.com
There’s just so much science, nature, music, art, technology, storytelling and assorted good stuff out there that my kids (and maybe your kids) haven’t seen.…
- Rebass jxnblk.com
<blockquote>A React UI component library that uses inline styles to avoid CSS dependencies and prevent leaky global styles from affecting an application. Rebass components inherit styles where appropriate and can be customized using React Context. Rebass components are built as stateless functional components and modeled as presentational components.</blockquote>
- Modular Scale modularscale.com
How do I use this? Use a scale like you would use a ruler. Many people set heading type sizes with numbers from a scale, but that's just one possibility. You…
Why is Vertical Rhythm an Important Typography Practice? Written under: Design Typography 24th February, 2016 You probably heard of the term Vertical Rhythm if…
Users need to perceive, comprehend and operate a digital service: The service needs a way to get across to the user in order to be perceived. This could be…
- Ghost in the Shell, over two decades old, remains our most challenging film about technology newstatesman.com
Japanese animated films and anime series are weird. But the release of the classic Ghost in the Shell over 20 years ago drove the genre both upwards by reaching…
- Misconceptions of Tooling in JavaScript javascriptplayground.com
I wrote back in 2015 about the state of front end tooling and since that post it's continued to be a topic I follow with interest. I'm particularly interested…
- Components - docs.adobe.com docs.adobe.com
- Multistage environments with Ansible – Ross Tuck rosstuck.com
- How to Secure Your WordPress Blog/Site hostingfacts.com
- The Elephant in the Room: Web design work is drying up | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
- A “web designer” or “web developer” used to be a generalist who wrote HTML, CSS, and some jQuery. Now there’s a demand for specialization: a UI/UX designer…
- Delivering Octicons with SVG github.com
GitHub.com no longer delivers its icons via icon font. Instead, we’ve replaced all the Octicons throughout our codebase with SVG alternatives. While the changes…
How to Access the Web Inspector for Desktop iBooks Derrick Schultz June 11, 2014 SECRETS 6 Comments If you’re familiar with doing web development, you know one…
At Thursday’s education event, Apple put glee into the heart of every ebook publisher when it unveiled iBooks Author, the company’s new ebook authoring tool.…
- Design systems in difficult places | Journal | The Personal Disquiet of Mark Boulton markboulton.co.uk
Design systems in difficult places – February 18th, 2016 – This is Manchester. I grew up on the outskirts of Manchester. I have memories like this picture.…
- A Modular Approach to UI Problem Solving | David Clark Develops the Web davidtheclark.com
At React Rally last year, I watched an excellent talk by Lin Clark called “Making small modules actually work with webpack and npm”. At the beginning of the…
- Frontend Design | Brad Frost bradfrost.com
Somewhere between design – a world of personas, pixels, and polish – and engineering – a world of logic, loops, and linux – lies frontend design. Frontend…
- Production npm defaults remysharp.com
- Show HN: Urubu – A micro CMS for static websites | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
I created this project because I needed a generator for a static website - not just a blog. To accomplish this, the website structure matches the source…
- Moving to Singapore blog.ghost.org
In the next couple of months we’ll be reincorporating the Ghost Foundation in Singapore and closing down all operations in the UK. This is easily the biggest…
- Crashlands crashlands.net
- Learn React by itself -- no JSX, no Flux, no ES6, no Webpack. jamesknelson.com
Disclaimer: I love JSX, Flux, ES6 and Webpack. I’ll discuss these tools more in another series. So you’ve heard all the fuss about React.js – apparently it is…
- The Reality of Missing Out | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
AdTech companies are completely fucked. Just totally and utterly fucked. Google and Facebook are kicking their asses left and right.
- Why expat Americans are giving up their passports | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
But I think that it is wrong to present this as a taxation issue. I would be fine with paying a percentage of my income in taxes. There are some benefits to…
- Testing: tape vs. tap remysharp.com
- Short note on improving usability of scrollable regions paciellogroup.com
Posted on Wednesday, 3 February 2016 by Steve Faulkner You can make an element scrollable using CSS overflow property, problem is that typically the content…
- The Controversial State of JavaScript Tooling ponyfoo.com
A Hard PlaceThe front-end development community as a whole has put itself in a hard place. We’ve collectively overlooked issues that arise from using tons of…
- HappenApps happenapps.com
OverviewQuiver is a notebook built for programmers. It lets you easily mix text, code, Markdown and LaTeX within one note, edit code with an awesome code…
Meet Focal PointFocal Point is a GitHub project and CSS framework created by Adam Bradley. As you know, the concept of responsive images requires that any…
- Favicon Generator for all platforms: iOS, Android, PC/Mac... realfavicongenerator.net
0% completed Favicon for iOS - Web Clip iPhone and iPad users can pin your web site on their home screen. The link looks like a native app. Your favicon is…
- Infant Carsickness | Ask Dr Sears askdrsears.com
“Please help! Our one-year-old gets sick every time we drive somewhere. It started just after she turned one but before we turned her car seat around. We…
Games for your iPhone and iPad can be pretty hefty. By the time a media-rich title’s done expanding after download, it can easily munch 1 GB or more of your…