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- How to Take Control of Flexbox · · videos, css, layout
- CSS Anchor Positioning · · css
- Setting and Persisting Color Scheme Preferences With CSS and a “Touch” of JavaScript · · colors, dark-mode, css, javascript
- Spicing Up Text With “text-emphasis” in CSS · · css, typography, effects
- Diving into the Node.js Website Redesign · · redesign, case-studies
- Accessible Forms With Pseudo Classes · · accessibility, forms, css, selectors
- CSS Values and Units Module Level 3 · · css, units
- The Cost of Interrupted Work: More Speed and Stress · · productivity, processes
- The “Current Branch” in Git · · git
- Node.js TSC Confirms: No Intention to Remove npm from Distribution · · nodejs, npm
- Optimizing JavaScript for Fun and for Profit · · javascript, optimization
- Node.js: The Documentary · · videos, nodejs, history
- On Popover Accessibility: What the Browser Does and Doesn’t Do · · accessibility, popovers, html
- Aesthetic Layouts: 2 Column Magazine With “shape-outside” · · code-pens, layout, css
- How to Create a Website and a PDF from the Same Codebase · · how-tos, code-generation, functionality
- How to Plan Your First Successful Website · · how-tos, processes
- Psychology and UX: Decoding the Science Behind User Clicks · · user-experience, design, principles
- Build a Full-Stack App With Node.js and htmx · · web-apps, nodejs, htmx
- Empowering the User Experience Through Microinteractions: 7 Best Practices · · user-experience, interaction-design, best-practices
- Accessibility Foundations · · accessibility, fundamentals, link-lists
- Build a Node App With TypeScript · · nodejs, typescript, pnpm, modules
- Comparing ECMAScript Modules and CommonJS · · comparisons, javascript, modules
- The Power of Textual Content in UX Design · · content, user-experience
- A Designer’s Role Is Not “at the Table” · · design, career
- 2024 Cheat Sheet Collection · · cheat-sheets, link-lists
- Time to Ditch Analytics? Tracking Scripts and Web Sustainability · · embed-code, analytics, sustainability, performance, compliance
- Homepage Design: 5 Fundamental Principles · · design, principles
- How (In)Efficient Are Engineering Organizations? · · efficiency, processes, leadership
- Skeuomorphism · · design, terminology
- Make Your Functions More Reusable With Generics · · typescript, functions, maintainability
- Performance Tooling in 2024 and Beyond · · performance, tooling, user-agents, dev-tools, lighthouse
- There Is No EU Cookie Banner Law · · consent-management, cookies, legal
- What Is Safe Alignment in CSS? · · css, layout, user-experience
- Arguments for Opening Links in a New Tab or Window · · links, usability
- 25 Unnoticeable Features of JavaScript · · javascript
- Ruby Is Complicated · · html
- You Want “border-color: transparent”, Not “border: none” · · css, borders
- The Problem With AI · · ai
- WCAG 2.2 Detective Skills · · accessibility, standards, wcag
- Another JS Registry—Seriously?! · · videos, jsr, dependencies, javascript
- What’s Next for a Global Design System · · design-systems
- 5 Exciting New JavaScript Features in 2024 · · javascript
- A Letter to My Younger Self, as an Accessibility Advocate · · accessibility, retrospectives
- Building Websites and Building Websites Well · · quality, craft, community
- Interaction to Next Paint Is Officially a Core Web Vital · · performance, web-vitals
- The “10× Engineer”: 50 Years Ago and Now · · productivity, processes, career, history
- Thoughts on Embedding Alternative Text Metadata into Images · · accessibility, images, metadata
- Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter · · web, history
- The Essential Guide to Microcopy and Becoming a More Literate Designer · · guides, design, microcontent, content, writing
- A Gentle Introduction to Generics in Typescript · · introductions, typescript
- Alt Text for CSS Generated Content · · css, alt-text, accessibility
- Announcing Speedometer 3.0: A Shared Browser Benchmark for Web Application Responsiveness · · performance, tooling, metrics
- Distinguishing Between ARIA and Native HTML Attributes · · html, aria, accessibility, comparisons
- JSON Canvas · · websites, standards, json, canvas
- Express.js With TypeScript—Setup, Examples, Testing · · videos, express, typescript, testing, examples
- What Is INP and Why You Should Care · · performance, web-vitals, monitoring
- Have You Optimized for INP? · · performance, web-vitals, optimization
- Comparing JavaScript Frameworks: Templates · · javascript, frameworks, templates, comparisons
- Streaming HTML · · html, php, streaming
- CSS Button Styles You Might Not Know · · html, css, buttons
- Things I Learned While Building My JS Library · · javascript, libraries, lessons
- Access by a Thousand Curb Cuts · · accessibility
- Jakob Has Jumped the Shark · · accessibility, link-lists
- Creating Color Palettes With the CSS “color-mix()” Function · · css, functions, colors, color-palettes
- How “HEAD” Works in Git · · git
- Modern CSS Tooltips and Speech Bubbles II · · css, techniques
- Navigating the Future of Frontend · · frameworks, web-platform, visions
- Some Little Ways I’m Using CSS “:has()” in the Real World · · css, selectors, examples
- The Quiet, Pervasive Devaluation of Frontend · · html, css, craft, career, community
- AVIF Is the Future of Web Images · · images, avif, performance, visions
- How to Test 2.5.8 Target Size (Minimum) · · how-tos, accessibility, testing
- Managing Static Files in Django: A Comprehensive Guide · · guides, django, file-handling
- 5 Ways Productivity Culture Kills Business Agility · · productivity, agile, economics, culture
- Announcing TypeScript 5.4 · · release-notes, typescript
- Internationalization With Remix · · remix, internationalization
- Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 190 · · release-notes, user-agents, apple, safari
- Simplify Your CSS Using “:is()” and “:where()” Pseudo-Classes · · videos, css, selectors
- The End of My Gatsby Journey · · gatsby, frameworks, comparisons
- The Ultimate Guide to Choosing the Best React Website Builder · · guides, react, tooling, comparisons, link-lists
- WebAssembly JSPI Is Going to Origin Trial · · webassembly
- Exploring the Creative Power of CSS Filters and Blending · · css, blend-modes, effects
- Sometimes, a Button Just Wants to Look Like a Button · · design, usability, buttons
- How to Ensure Your Designs Work If You Can’t Access Sample Data · · how-tos, design, usability, metrics, testing
- How to Use WebSockets in Node.js to Create Real-Time Apps · · how-tos, websocket, nodejs
- WebKit Features in Safari 17.4 · · release-notes, user-agents, apple, safari, webkit
- Best Practices for Inclusive Design · · design, inclusion, accessibility, best-practices
- Achieving Design Collegiality While Maintaining Psychological Safety · · design, collaboration
- Designing for Mobile Accessibility: Enhancing the User Experience on Small Screens · · design, accessibility, user-experience, mobile
- JSR: Second Look · · jsr
- Modern Git Commands and Features You Should Be Using · · git, command-line
- JavaScript Runs the World—Maybe Even Literally · · javascript, programming, web
- Accessibility Darkness · · accessibility, overlays
- Accessibility Has Not Failed—It Has Not Even Started for Real · · accessibility, ai
- Bugs I’ve Filed on Browsers · · user-agents, chromium, firefox, webkit, quality
- VPS Showdown—March 2024—DigitalOcean vs. Linode vs. Vultr · · servers, hosting, comparisons, metrics
- We Need to Talk About Jakob · · accessibility
- CSS for Printing to Paper · · css, print
- How npm Install Scripts Can Be Weaponized: A Real-World Example of a Harmful npm Package · · npm, dependencies, examples, security
- Tools That Make Me Productive as a Software Engineer · · tooling, productivity, link-lists
- Emerging UX Patterns in Generative AI Experiences · · user-experience, design-patterns, ai
- The Faster Lambda Runtime—Node.js or LLRT? We Benchmarked · · aws, javascript, runtimes, nodejs, comparisons, metrics
- Go Ahead and Block AI Web Crawlers · · robotstxt, scraping, ai
- A Love Letter to the Underrepresented in Tech · · community
- “AI” and Accessible Front-End Components: Is the Nuance Generatable? · · accessibility, web-components, ai
- Apple Backs off Killing Web Apps, but the Fight Continues · · web-apps, apple
- Apple Says iOS 17.4 Won’t Remove Home Screen Web Apps in the EU After All · · user-agents, apple, mobile, web-apps
- Eloquent JavaScript · · websites, books, javascript
- Introducing JSR—the JavaScript Registry · · jsr, deno, dependencies, javascript
- Modern CSS Tooltips and Speech Bubbles · · css, techniques
- Retrofitting Fluid Typography · · typography, css
- TIL—“submit()” versus “requestSubmit()” · · javascript, comparisons
- Web Tech Trends to Watch in 2024 and Beyond · · trends, design, dark-mode, ai, sustainability, minimalism
- Accessibility Has Failed: Try Generative UI = Individualized UX · · accessibility, usability, ai, visions
- Choosing the Right Node.js Package Manager in 2024: A Comparative Guide · · guides, nodejs, dependencies, comparisons
- Diving into CSS Interactivity · · videos, css
- New to the Web Platform in February · · release-notes, web-platform, user-agents, mozilla, firefox, google, chrome, apple, safari
- Techniques to Break Words · · techniques, html, css, content
- The Wax and the Wane of the Web · · web-platform, history
- Understanding Cookies and Sessions in React · · react, authentication, cookies
- What Is Inclusive Design, and How Does It Relate to Accessibility? · · design, inclusion, accessibility
- What You Need to Know About Software Requirements · · software-design, best-practices
- Why Does “is-number” Package Have 59M Weekly Downloads? · · dependencies, npm
- An HTML Switch Control · · html, css, forms
- Apple vs. PWAs—Go Act Now and Help Avoid This Disaster… · · apple, web-apps, community
- Creativity Lies in the Paradoxes · · creativity, design
- Enhanced Internationalization (I18N) in Next.js 14 · · nextjs, internationalization
- Going Beyond Pixels and (r)ems in CSS—Container Query Length Units · · css, container-queries, units
- Making Math Accessible · · accessibility, math
- So, What Exactly Did Apple Break in the EU? · · user-agents, apple, mobile, support, web-apps, apis
- Test Quality vs. Bashing Tailwind CSS · · tailwind, css, comparisons
- Top 8 Recent V8 in Node Updates · · nodejs, v8
- Ultimate Guide to Visual Testing With Playwright · · guides, testing, regressions, playwright
- How to Create a Sidebar Navigation With Astro, Tailwind CSS, and Alpine.js · · how-tos, navigation, functionality, astro, tailwind
- A Fun Line of Code · · javascript, apis, multimedia
- A Simple Mistake That Can Screw Up Your Light/Dark Theme (and How to Fix It) · · videos, dark-mode, css
- Reporting Core Web Vitals With the Performance API · · apis, performance, web-vitals
- Screen Readers and Drag-and-Drop: Grabbing and Releasing Elements · · accessibility, user-agents, assistive-tech, screen-readers, support
- The 3 Capabilities Designers Need to Build for the AI Era · · design, career, training, ai
- Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools · · wordpress
- YouTube Video Embedding Harm Reduction · · multimedia, embed-code, html, privacy
- How to Lazy-Load CodePen and CanIUse Embeds · · how-tos, embed-code, performance
- How to Use Server-Sent Events in Node.js · · how-tos, nodejs, events
- 10 Takeaways from the WebAIM Screenreader Survey · · accessibility, user-agents, assistive-tech, screen-readers
- A Web Designer’s Accessibility Advocacy Toolkit · · accessibility, strategies
- Advanced Figma Tips and Tricks 2024: Little Gems We Love · · figma, tips-and-tricks
- CSS Foundations: What Is IACVT? · · css
- CSS-Only Bottom-Anchored Scrolling Area · · css, scrolling
- No Outer Margin · · css, components
- The CSS Cascade—a (Re)Introduction · · videos, css, cascade
- What Is a Single-Page Application? · · spas, javascript, performance, user-experience
- Why I Use Firefox · · user-agents, mozilla, firefox
- How to Build a Newthing · · how-tos, processes, creativity, maintenance
- Home Screen Advantage · · user-agents, apple, mobile, support, web-apps, web-platform
- CAPTCHA Is Still [the] Most Problematic Issue on the Web · · accessibility, web, captcha
- CSS “:has()” Interactive Guide · · guides, css, selectors
- JSDoc as an Alternative TypeScript Syntax · · typescript, documentation
- My WebAIM 10th SR User Survey Takeaways · · accessibility, user-agents, assistive-tech, screen-readers
- The Power of Patterns and Playbooks in Content Design · · design, content, design-patterns
- Understanding Event-Driven Architecture · · architecture, events
- WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey 10 · · accessibility, user-agents, assistive-tech, screen-readers
- A Developer’s Guide for Web Accessibility · · guides, accessibility
- Proposal: CSS Variable Groups · · css
- Why My Code Isn’t in TypeScript · · typescript
- ARIA (Are Ya) Afraid of the Dark? Unmasking Common HTML Monsters to Create Better User Experiences · · videos, accessibility, aria, html, user-experience
- Building Dynamic Progress Bars Using Only CSS · · css
- Difference Between the Accessibility Page and the Accessibility Statement · · accessibility, documentation, comparisons
- htmx vs. React: A Complete Comparison · · htmx, react, comparisons
- JavaScript Bloat in 2024 · · javascript, performance
- JSR: What We Know So Far About Deno’s New JavaScript Package Registry · · jsr, deno, dependencies, javascript
- UX Leadership Is Failing (and What We Can Do About It) · · user-experience, leadership
- Vanilla JavaScript, Libraries, and the Quest for Stateful DOM Rendering · · javascript, libraries, client-side-rendering, state-management
- 10 Best Create React App Alternatives for Different Use Cases · · frameworks, tech-stacks, comparisons, link-lists
- CSS “::backdrop” Now Inherits from Its Originating Element · · css, selectors
- Making of True Multi-Brand Design System · · design-systems, theming
- Next.js vs. Remix—a Developer’s Dilemma · · nextjs, remix, comparisons
- Node.js 2023 Year in an Article · · nodejs, retrospectives
- Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 189 · · release-notes, user-agents, apple, safari
- Syntax Highlighting With No Spans?! · · css, apis
- View Transitions: Handling Aspect Ratio Changes · · css, transitions
- How to Optimize the Web for the Worst User Conditions? · · how-tos, user-experience, responsive-design, performance, optimization
- The One Trick Every Flutter Web Dev Needs to Know · · tips-and-tricks, flutter, performance
- A Practical Guide to Designing for Colorblind People · · guides, accessibility, colors
- A Practical Guide to Using Shadow DOM · · guides, dom, shadow-dom
- Control Lazy Load, Infinite Scroll, and Animations in React · · react, lazy-loading, scrolling, animations, javascript
- CSS-Only Radial Progress Bars Using Conic Gradients · · videos, css, gradients
- Design Patterns That Encourage Junk Data · · design-patterns, sustainability, economics, storage, email
- Does Your Design Conform With WCAG Accessibility Guidelines—or Does It Comply? · · videos, accessibility, wcag, guidelines, compliance
- My Design System Journey: Building the Plane While Flying · · design-systems, collaboration, processes
- Okay, Color Spaces · · colors, oklch
- Preventing SQL Injection Attacks in Node.js · · security, nodejs, databases, sql
- “random()” Distribution Visualizer · · javascript, randomness
- Why Is JavaScript Fragile? · · javascript
- How to Transfer Binary Data Efficiently Across Worker Threads in Node.js · · how-tos, nodejs, worker-threads
- 100 Things You Can Do on Your Personal Website · · blogging, writing, indieweb
- 17 Equations That Changed the World—Rewritten in JavaScript · · javascript, math
- 7 Effective Ways to Craft Compelling Problem Statements for UX Design · · user-experience, product-management, processes
- Fostering a Collaborative Onboarding Team to Design Better Onboarding Experiences · · collaboration, onboarding, user-experience
- Responsive Web Design: 3 Key Fundamentals · · videos, responsive-design, fundamentals
- The Fifty-Fifty Split and Overflow · · css, layout
- “Web Design as a Process” in Charts: Maintenance, Decay, Tech Debt, and Big Bang Launching · · content, design, design-debt, technical-debt, maintenance, processes
- What Is Utility-First CSS? · · css, principles
- How to Design an Accessible Web Site for People with Color-Deficient Vision · · how-tos, accessibility, inclusion, user-experience, colors, contrast, readability
- [Web Accessibility] Survey Results · · accessibility, surveys
- Don’t Care About Accessibility? Resistance Is Futile! · · accessibility
- Tailwind Marketing and Misinformation Engine · · tailwind, css, semantics, principles, maintainability
- A Manifesto for Small, Static, Web Apps · · web-apps, principles
- JavaScript on Demand: How Qwik Differs from React Hydration · · javascript, qwik, react, hydration, comparisons
- JavaScript Workers · · videos, javascript, web-workers
- Understanding React “useEffect” · · react
- Be a Better Developer With These Git Good Practices · · git, best-practices, conventions, consistency, code-reviews
- How to Set Up a Node Server With TypeScript in 2024 · · how-tos, nodejs, servers, typescript
- It’s Official, Apple Kills Web Apps in the EU · · web-apps, apple
- Popular Git Config Options · · git, configuration
- A Dozen Thoughts About AI · · ai
- ARIA “note” · · accessibility, aria, user-agents, assistive-tech, screen-readers, support
- Getting to an Accessibility Strategy · · accessibility, strategies, processes
- How I Developed the 10 Usability Heuristics · · usability, heuristics, history
- Playing With Infinity in CSS · · css, math
- React Labs: What We’ve Been Working On—February 2024 · · react
- Top 20 JavaScript One-Liners That Don’t Actually Work · · javascript
- Making the Most of Ligatures · · css, typography
- How Accessibility Standards Can Empower Better Chart Visual Design · · accessibility, contrast, information-design
- Input Type “date”: The Accessibility of HTML Date Picker · · accessibility, forms
- Reasonable WCAG Additions · · accessibility, wcag
- Scroll-Driven Animations: You Want “overflow: clip”, not “overflow: hidden” · · css, scrolling, animations
- The Text File That Runs the Internet · · robotstxt, scraping, ai, web
- Wednesday February 14 2024 Security Releases · · nodejs, release-notes, security
- When It Says “Name from Author” It Means from You, Not Boll or Bukowski · · accessibility, aria, naming
- A Practical Guide to Designing for Children · · guides, design, link-lists
- Advanced Architecture for AI Application (aka AAAA) · · ai, architecture, edge-computing, optimization
- An Introduction to Node.js Multithreading · · introductions, nodejs, multithreading
- Be Aware of Arrays—V8 Engine Advice · · javascript, engines, v8, arrays
- Building htmx and Go Web Apps With Gemini Advanced · · videos, web-apps, htmx, ai
- CSS Color Module Level 4 · · css, colors
- How to Fix the Invisible Scrollbar Issue in iOS Browsers · · how-tos, user-agents, mobile, scrolling, css
- The New CSS Math: “pow()”, “sqrt()”, and Exponential Friends · · css, functions, math
- Why I Like Scrumban · · processes, agile, scrum, kanban
- How to Center a Div · · how-tos, css, layout
- A CSS Project Boilerplate · · css, tailwind, templates
- Can Generative AI Help Write Accessible Code? · · accessibility, code-generation, ai
- How to Boost WordPress Security and Protect Your SEO Ranking · · how-tos, wordpress, security, seo
- Learn TypeScript · · courses, typescript
- The Anatomy of Addictive Content · · content, writing, seo
- You Want to Make It Easy to Feature Your Content · · announcements, content, community
- CSS Mixins and Functions Explainer · · css, functions
- Names Are Complex: Displaying Initials for an Avatar Component in a Design System · · naming, design, case-studies
- Using Recursive CSS to Change Styles Based on Depth · · css, selectors
- Don’t Disable Form Controls · · accessibility, usability, forms, buttons
- Accelerating Code Reviews With Nudges · · code-reviews, productivity, experiments, meta
- Everything You Need to Know About Image Formats in 2024 · · images, jpeg, png, gif, webp, avif, svg