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June 9, 2016 It’s hard to believe it’s been over three years since Dave Rupert wrote Responsive Deliverables , challenging the rest of us to start making “tiny…

What a brilliant idea! For the longest time HTML5 specified, and advised developers, that it no longer mattered what the number (1 to 6) was in a heading…

As we dive deeper into visual regression testing in our development workflow we realize a sad truth: on average, we break our own CSS every week and a half.…

Affinity Designer Professional graphic design software for Mac Watch video No subscription. Just $49.99 Buy now Free trial Imagined by designers, created for…

We’ve come to the point where we can’t go to (or even drive past) any natural area without Bergen (2.5 years old) yelling out in question and excitement:…

With summer on the horizon it is time to dig out that rusty old barbecue from the back of the garage – and then go out and invest in a new outdoor cooker. The…

I often use a few CSS alternatives to common JavaScript interactions when I’mdeveloping the front-end of a website (especially a prototype). There are…

This post was originally posted as a Gist, but seems to have been quite well-received, so I wanted to put it here for posterity. It’s slightly less-edited than…

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(Yes the title of this post is a pun, apologies!) I have written about aliases before! See for example a collection of my favorite git aliases or peruse my…

Today, we’re excited to announce a simple, powerful new way to track changes to the npm registry — and build your own amazing new developer tools: hooks . What?…

May 26, 2016 While iterating on a new article layout for the impending Cloud Four redesign , I encountered an old CSS layout problem. For long-form content,…

I’m sure it’s not a rare use case, but between working hours I’m a mobile-only user. Young kids mean I need my hands free and not having a laptop in the house…

The content management industry has tricked the entire world into thinking that they’re publishers. They’re wrong. Try this. Ask anyone with any knowledge of…

date-fns - modern JavaScript date utility library

Karri is currently answering your questions about the design language system in a segment of Ask Me Anything by Designer News. Click here to join the forum.…

May 23, 2016 Yesterday we released GitLab 8.8 , super powering GitLab's built-in continuous integration. With it, you can build a pipeline in GitLab,…

Exploring ways to export clean .svg icons with Sketch…the correct way If you design interfaces, you probably work with developers on a daily basis. Your job is…

7 Answers 7 active oldest votes 42 accepted Go to the system preferences and choose "Language & Text" In the "Text" tab you will find the list of substitutions.…

Posted 11 February 2016 - totally overshadowed by some waving gravity thing. Thanks Einstein. Chrome is intending to change the behaviour of <link…

May 19, 2016 Many people know that you can scan your credit credit in Mobile Safari. But how many web developers know how to create a form that supports that…

Understanding JSON Schema — Understanding JSON Schema 1.0 documentation Understanding JSON Schema JSON Schema is a powerful tool for validating the structure of…

Recent changes to the CSS specifications have introduced quite a few interesting features. Unfortunately, some of them are still in a draft state and the ones…

To ensure a consistent design approach across its digital services, the BBC uses a shared Global Experience Language (GEL). In this post, User Experience…

Situation: you have a single line of text in a flex child element. You don't want that text to wrap, you want it truncated with ellipsis (or fall back to just…

Imagine for a moment, that you have all been assigned to a new team within our company. We have assembled this team to take on an important web development…

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In 1944, the Office of Strategic Services —the predecessor of the post-war CIA—was concerned with sabotage directed against enemies of the US military. Among…

Some of the letters and cards that were sent to Robert Macfarlane A few days after Landmarks was published last spring, the first postcard arrived. It was of…

stylelint-scss A collection of SCSS specific linting rules for stylelint (in a form of a plugin). Purpose stylelint by itself supports SCSS syntax very well (as…

I had hoped this post would never be needed. However as is often the case what we maintainers assume is common knowledge in reality is far from it. Firstly lets…

Boris Johnson leaves an ice cream parlour on the outskirts of St Austell, Cornwall.Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters Launching the Vote Leave battlebus with an…

As four people who are blind and care deeply about making the web more accessible, we strongly believe user testing should include people with disabilities. But…

‘The CIPD survey also cites bad management as a cause of job dissatisfaction.’ David Brent (Ricky Gervais) in The OfficePhotograph: Adrian Rogers/BBC A re you…

← Home The Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) is a new take on an idea that's been gaining some traction over the last few years, that is, to publish papers…

This is sort of a response to Adam “ @mrmrs_ ” Morse’s “ Webfonts .” It’s not a rebuttal by any means, but rather a collection of my own thoughts that at least…

Editor’s Draft, 15 January 2015 This version: http://responsiveimagescg.github.io/eq-usecases/ Editors: ( RICG ) Scott Jehl ( Filament Group ) Version History:…

Writing Speaking Training Work With Me How fast should your UI animations be? May 5th, 2016 This is a question I get asked a lot at workshops and talks, and…

You might have heard about PostCSS and CSS modules but you are still recovering from the onslaught of 10,000 other frontend build process changes. The question…

T he feeling of despair that descends on hearing the theme tune of the CBeebies television show Me Too! is unmistakable. At 6am, it is the first show on the…

We have all had the experience of getting lost while being informed of precisely where we are.Photograph: Alamy I n early 2008, for quixotic reasons that…

The need to raise a large deposit is often blamed for stopping people from getting on the property ladder.Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA The no-deposit mortgage has…

Fractal A tool to help you build , document and integrate component/pattern libraries into your web projects. Introduction Component (or pattern) libraries are…

‘Cause native apps do some things better If you were expecting all things React web at ReactConf this year you might have left disappointed, React Native was…

28th April 2016 Here at Clearleft we’ve been building website component libraries (often also called pattern libraries or styleguides) for quite a while - in…

Being A Developer After 40 (This is the talk I have given at App Builders Switzerland on April 25th, 2016. The slides are available on SpeakerDeck and at the…

10 Principles to let long-form articles more readable If you are going to expand your service into Asia. First, you may see the language wall (and then the…