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- Automatic npm Publishing with GitHub Actions and npm Granular Tokens (toot or tweet) · · npm, github, automation
- File Uploads for the Web: Upload Files with JavaScript (toot or tweet) · · javascript
- Visually Hidden Content Is a Hack That Needs to Be Resolved, Not Enshrined (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, assistive-tech, css
- What’s New in Eleventy 2: A Great SSG Just Got Better (toot or tweet) · · eleventy
- 7 Ways Web Developers and UX Designers Can Collaborate (toot or tweet) · · collaboration, processes
- CSS Is Dead! (toot or tweet) · · css
- Regression Testing in the Agile Universe (toot or tweet) · · agile, processes, testing
- Why We Added package.json Support to Deno (toot or tweet) · · deno, support, nodejs, npm
- Using “forRoot()” and “forChild()” in Angular (toot or tweet) · · angular
- How to Stop a React Component from Rendering (toot or tweet) · · react, components, client-side-rendering
- DevTools: Tricks for Copying the Styling from Any Website (toot or tweet) · · dev-tools, css, user-agents, google, chrome
- 5 Tips for New Prototypers (toot or tweet) · · videos, prototyping, tips
- How to Use “v-model” with Form Inputs in Vue (toot or tweet) · · vuejs, forms
- Hijacking Screenreaders with CSS (toot or tweet) · · videos, accessibility, user-agents, assistive-tech, css
- Internationalization in Next.js 13 with React Server Components (toot or tweet) · · internationalization, nextjs, react, components
- DevTools: Faster Searching in DevTools with CSS Selectors (toot or tweet) · · dev-tools, css, selectors, user-agents, google, chrome
- It’s About Time CAPTCHAs Become Accessible (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, captcha
- Accessibility Beyond Code Compliance (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, compliance
- 6 CSS Snippets Every Front-End Developer Should Know in 2023 (toot or tweet) · · css
- Git Fundamentals, a Complete Guide (toot or tweet) · · guides, git
- JavaScript for Beginners: Data Structures (toot or tweet) · · javascript, arrays, objects
- Modern Font Stacks (toot or tweet) · · websites, fonts, typography
- What Leonardo Da Vinci Can Teach Us About Web Design (toot or tweet) · · design, layout
- JavaScript: Automatically Remove an Event Listener After It Has Executed (toot or tweet) · · javascript, events
- Fix Color Contrast—Web Accessibility for Text and UI Design (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, colors, contrast
- Advice from a Software Engineer with 8 Years of Experience (toot or tweet) · · career
- 8 Tips for Making Your Custom Web Designs Mobile Friendly (toot or tweet) · · responsive-design, design, tips
- What Is the Cost of Designing a Mobile App? (toot or tweet) · · economics, mobile-first
- Best Practices for Structuring Accessibility Testing (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, testing, best-practices
- The Ternary Operator in JavaScript (toot or tweet) · · javascript
- Why Aren’t Logical Properties Taking Over Everything? (toot or tweet) · · css, logical-properties, internationalization
- UX Strategy: Study Guide (toot or tweet) · · guides, training, user-experience, strategies
- We Don’t Need “.visually-hidden” (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, css, semantics, quality
- Create and Download Text Files Using JavaScript (toot or tweet) · · javascript
- “content” Is Your Content? (toot or tweet) · · css, content, seo, accessibility, maintainability
- Handling CSS Color Fonts with “font-palette” (toot or tweet) · · css, colors, fonts
- “Design First, Then Build”: Let’s Bury This Myth Forevermore (toot or tweet) · · design, processes
- The Ultimate Guide to Becoming a 10× Dev (toot or tweet) · · guides, productivity, career
- From UX to Growth Design: 5 Principles to Multiply Your Value (toot or tweet) · · user-experience, design, principles
- View Transitions API: Creating Smooth Page Transitions (toot or tweet) · · transitions, apis
- All JavaScript and TypeScript Features from the Last 3 Years (toot or tweet) · · javascript, typescript, history
- TypeScript’s Migration to Modules (toot or tweet) · · typescript, modules, migration
- Building Complex Forms in Vue (toot or tweet) · · forms, vuejs
- Craft vs. Industry: Separating Concerns (toot or tweet) · · quality, economics, maintainability, comparisons
- File Uploads for the Web: Uploading Files with HTML (toot or tweet) · · html
- SPA View Transitions Land in Chrome 111 (toot or tweet) · · apis, transitions, release-notes, user-agents, google, chrome
- One Problem That Is Now Solved by CSS Subgrid (toot or tweet) · · css, layout
- Evolving Custom Sliders (toot or tweet) · · javascript, css
- Creating a Clock with the New CSS “sin()” and “cos()” Trigonometry Functions (toot or tweet) · · css
- Static Site Generators: What’s Trending Right Now (toot or tweet) · · static-site-generators, trends, react, gatsby, nuxt, astro, eleventy, comparisons
- How to Fix: Child Stylesheet Loading Twice (WordPress) (toot or tweet) · · wordpress, php
- I No Longer Understand “prefers-contrast” (toot or tweet) · · css, media-queries
- My Ideal Accessible Components Resource Is Holistic, Well Tested and Easy to Use (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, components
- 2023 Web Framework Performance Report (toot or tweet) · · frameworks, performance, astro, sveltekit, gatsby, remix, wordpress, nextjs, nuxt, comparisons
- An End to Typographic Widows on the Web (toot or tweet) · · typography, css
- Change Favicon on Switching Browser Tabs in JavaScript (toot or tweet) · · images, favicons, javascript
- Quick Tip: How to Cache Data in PHP (toot or tweet) · · php, caching, tips
- As a User, I Don’t Want To (toot or tweet) · · product-management, agile, user-experience
- Zebra Stripe Lines of Text Even When They Wrap (toot or tweet) · · css
- What Value Does Developer Relations Bring to Other Teams? (toot or tweet) · · developer-relations, processes
- A Tab Interface Before Its Time (toot or tweet) · · html, components
- Managing Fonts in WordPress Block Themes (toot or tweet) · · fonts, wordpress
- The Anatomy of a Good Design: An Analysis of 4 Sites (toot or tweet) · · design
- Balanced Text Wrapping Is Coming to CSS (toot or tweet) · · css, typography
- 10 Helpful JavaScript Utility Functions (toot or tweet) · · javascript
- Continuous Growth Is Cancer (toot or tweet) · · economics, career
- AI-Generated Git Commit Messages (toot or tweet) · · ai, git, automation
- Making the Case for Signals in JavaScript (toot or tweet) · · javascript, signals
- Moving From Vue 1 to Vue 2 to Vue 3: A Case Study of Migrating a Headless CMS System (toot or tweet) · · vuejs, migration, headless, content-management
- Are You Making These Five Mistakes When Writing Alt Text? (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, writing
- The Art of Unlearning (toot or tweet) · · learning, design
- Everything You Need to Know About the Gap After the List Marker (toot or tweet) · · css
- Toolkit Tuesday: Using YouTube for Captions and Transcripts (toot or tweet) · · videos, transcripts, accessibility, captions
- A Native “Visually Hidden” in CSS? Yes Please! (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, assistive-tech, css
- Announcing TypeScript 5.0 RC (toot or tweet) · · typescript, release-notes
- A Beginner’s Guide to Manual Accessibility Testing (toot or tweet) · · guides, accessibility, testing
- How We Built Our Multi-Platform Design System at Booking.com (toot or tweet) · · design-systems, theming, scaling
- The Web Needs a Native “.visually-hidden” (toot or tweet) · · css, accessibility
- You Don’t Need a Build Step (toot or tweet) · · building, tooling, deno
- Declarative Design (toot or tweet) · · videos, design
- React vs. Signals: 10 Years Later (toot or tweet) · · react, signals, javascript, comparisons, retrospectives
- Relative Rounded Corners (toot or tweet) · · html, css
- Learn How to Set Up a CI/CD Pipeline from Scratch (toot or tweet) · · ci-cd
- Accessible But Never Boring (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, design, design-systems
- The Seven Archetypes of Organizational Topologies (toot or tweet) · · processes, agile
- Quick Tip: How to Handle Exceptions in PHP (toot or tweet) · · tips, php, errors
- Conformance and Accessibility (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, conformance, quality
- Animated Gradient Text in CSS (toot or tweet) · · css, animations, gradients
- Are You Testing to Test, or Testing to Prove? (toot or tweet) · · testing, processes
- What Is “ref()” in Vue? (toot or tweet) · · vuejs
- Without Accessibility, There Is No Privacy or Security (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, privacy, security
- How People Read Online (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, content, readability, user-experience
- Ten Tips for Better CSS Transitions and Animations (toot or tweet) · · css, transitions, animations, tips
- A Guide to Accessible Form Validation (toot or tweet) · · guides, forms, validation, accessibility, user-experience
- A Guide to CSS “object-view-box” (toot or tweet) · · guides, css
- The Evolution of Signals in JavaScript (toot or tweet) · · javascript, signals
- On Container Queries, Responsive Images, and JPEG-XL (toot or tweet) · · css, container-queries, images, responsive-design, jpg
- The Ultimate Guide to Web Development Tools (toot or tweet) · · guides, tooling, link-lists
- Simplified Dark Mode with Style Queries (toot or tweet) · · css, container-queries, dark-mode
- The Coolest JavaScript Features from the Last 5 Years (toot or tweet) · · javascript, retrospectives
- 22 Useful CSS Tips and Tricks Every Developer Should Know (toot or tweet) · · css, tips, tricks
- Designers, Use Your intuition (toot or tweet) · · design, collaboration
- Conveniently Toggle and Add Tailwind CSS Classes in Chrome DevTools (toot or tweet) · · tailwind, dev-tools, chrome, google, user-agents, testing
- Is It Time to Replace Sass? (toot or tweet) · · sass, preprocessors
- How to Style Your Alt Text (toot or tweet) · · css, accessibility
- CSS Animation Libraries: 10 Popular Choices (toot or tweet) · · css, animations, libraries, link-lists
- Step-by-Step Guide: Creating a Template for Vue 3, Vuetify 3, and Storybook (toot or tweet) · · guides, vuejs, storybook
- Debugging JavaScript Like a Pro: Tools and Techniques for Finding and Fixing Bugs (toot or tweet) · · javascript, debugging, tooling, techniques
- Crawl Weather Using Cypress (toot or tweet) · · testing, cypress
- Learn CSS Positioning (toot or tweet) · · css, layout
- Prepare for Chrome’s User Agent [String] Reduction (toot or tweet) · · videos, user-agents, google, chrome, feature-detection
- 3 Common Antipersonas in UX (toot or tweet) · · videos, user-experience, personas
- In-Depth Guide to CSS Logical Properties (toot or tweet) · · videos, guides, css, logical-properties
- Getting Started with Style Queries (toot or tweet) · · css, container-queries
- The JavaScript Site Generator Review, 2023 (toot or tweet) · · static-site-generators, performance, comparisons, astro, eleventy, gatsby, nextjs, nuxt, remix, sveltekit
- You Have the Users You Have (toot or tweet) · · videos, usability, user-experience
- Privacy Principles (toot or tweet) · · privacy, principles
- 16 Best CSS Books for Beginners and Advanced Coders (toot or tweet) · · books, css
- Node.js Toolbox (toot or tweet) · · websites, nodejs, packages
- 7 Essential React Libraries for Front-End Web Development (toot or tweet) · · react, libraries, link-lists
- All About Promises in JavaScript (toot or tweet) · · javascript, promises
- Successful Teams Ensure 100% of Their Members Understand Keyboard Accessibility (toot or tweet) · · accessibility
- Experiments with the JavaScript Garbage Collector (toot or tweet) · · javascript, experiments
- Learn Privacy (toot or tweet) · · courses, privacy
- Where Does Developer Relations Belong in an Organization? (toot or tweet) · · developer-relations, processes
- Easing Curves, and Better CSS Transitions and Animations (toot or tweet) · · css, transitions, animations
- The State of Node.js Core (toot or tweet) · · videos, nodejs
- How to Handle Date and Time with JavaScript (toot or tweet) · · javascript
- Automatic Captions: Our Experiments and Best Practices (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, captions, best-practices, automation
- What Framework Should I Use? (toot or tweet) · · frameworks
- Thoughts on Dev Rel in the Post-Twitter Era (toot or tweet) · · developer-relations, social-media, community
- Open Captions vs. Closed Captions: What’s the Difference? (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, captions, comparisons
- The Great Gaslighting of the JavaScript Era (toot or tweet) · · javascript, frameworks, web-platform
- The Page with No Code (toot or tweet) · · minimalism, http, css
- How Shadow DOM and Accessibility Are in Conflict (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, dom, shadow-dom
- The Importance of Adding Accessibility Design Reviews to the Design Process (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, design, processes
- When JavaScript Fails (toot or tweet) · · javascript
- “(255,255,255)” Is the Highest Specificity (toot or tweet) · · css, cascade
- Style File Selector Button Using CSS (toot or tweet) · · css, forms
- 5 Super Useful CSS Properties That Don’t Get Enough Attention (toot or tweet) · · videos, css
- ARIA vs. HTML (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, html, aria, semantics, comparisons
- Ethical Alternatives to Revenue-Generating Deceptive Patterns (toot or tweet) · · ethics, dark-patterns, monetization, user-experience
- React Libraries for 2023 (toot or tweet) · · react, libraries
- “Make It Easier” Is Not a Product Strategy (toot or tweet) · · user-experience, product-management, strategies
- Design Systems in the Time of AI (toot or tweet) · · design-systems, ai
- Not Everyone Uses a Computer in the Same Way That You Do (toot or tweet) · · videos, accessibility
- Quick Tip: How to Trim Whitespace with PHP (toot or tweet) · · tips, php
- Use the Child-Element Count in CSS (toot or tweet) · · css, selectors
- Surviving Design Systems (toot or tweet) · · design-systems
- The State of JS Frameworks (toot or tweet) · · podcasts, javascript, frameworks
- Understanding the Cost of Not Being Accessible (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, economics
- All About Iterative Design (toot or tweet) · · design, processes
- Arranging Diamond Tiles in a Grid (toot or tweet) · · css, layout
- Last Baseline Alignment (toot or tweet) · · css, layout, support, user-agents
- Avoid Spanning Table Headers (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, assistive-tech, html, tables
- Create a Rainbow-Coloured List with “:nth-of-type()” (toot or tweet) · · css, selectors, colors
- Using Focal Points, Aspect Ratio, and Object-Fit to Crop Images Correctly (toot or tweet) · · css, images
- How to Password-Protect a Static HTML Page with No JS (toot or tweet) · · security, css, fonts
- Ideas for Making Accessibility and Equity a Core Part of the Software Development Lifecycle (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, inclusion, processes
- Keys to an Accessibility Mindset (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, design
- Do We Need CSS “flex-wrap” Detection? (toot or tweet) · · css, layout
- The Spirit of CSS-Tricks Is Now Gone (toot or tweet) · · community, learning
- My CSS Wishlist 2023 (toot or tweet) · · css, wish-lists
- Representation of Style (toot or tweet) · · html, semantics
- To Sketch or Not to Sketch? (toot or tweet) · · design, ai
- A Step-by-Step Guide to Building Accessible Carousels (toot or tweet) · · guides, accessibility, html, user-experience
- Don’t Use 403s or 404s for Rate Limiting (toot or tweet) · · seo, http
- Software Accessibility for Users with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADHD) (toot or tweet) · · accessibility
- If You’re Going to Do a Job, Do It Properly (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, css
- Unlocking the Power of Design to Help Users Make Smart Decisions (toot or tweet) · · design, tips
- Resizing with CSS (toot or tweet) · · css
- How to Build Offline Web Applications (toot or tweet) · · web-apps
- Declarative Shadow DOM (toot or tweet) · · shadow-dom, dom, html
- ChatGPT Can Write Good CSS? (toot or tweet) · · videos, ai, css
- The Return to the Office Could Be the Real Reason for the Slump in Productivity (toot or tweet) · · productivity
- Buttons, Links, and Focus (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, semantics, hypertext, forms
- Screen Readers Don’t Convey the Semantics of “strong” and “em” (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, assistive-tech, semantics, html
- What to Expect from Vue in 2023 and How It Differs from React (toot or tweet) · · vuejs, react, comparisons
- Igalia Chats/Shop Talk Crossover: Ecosystem Health Part IX (toot or tweet) · · videos, web-platform, user-agents, economics
- Writing JavaScript Without a Build System (toot or tweet) · · javascript, building
- My 2023 CSS Wishlist (toot or tweet) · · css, wish-lists
- Building an Animated SVG Logo with animejs (toot or tweet) · · svg, animations, vuejs
- Scaling Accessibility Through Design Systems (toot or tweet) · · videos, design-systems, accessibility, scaling
- The User Activation API (toot or tweet) · · apis, javascript
- Angular Reactivity with Signals (toot or tweet) · · angular, signals
- Is It Worth Learning JavaScript? Popularity, Salaries, and Future (toot or tweet) · · javascript, career
- A Practical Approach to Automated Accessibility (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, testing, automation
- How the Web Works: Understanding the Architecture of the Web (toot or tweet) · · web-platform, protocols, rendering
- Some of the Future Is Now for CSS: A Postscript (toot or tweet) · · css
- Automation Is Not the Enemy (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, testing, automation
- Quick Tip: How to Hash a Password in PHP (toot or tweet) · · php, security, passwords, tips
- Well-Known Symbols (toot or tweet) · · javascript
- Container Queries Land in Stable Browsers (toot or tweet) · · css, container-queries, user-agents, support
- The (Extremely) Loud Minority (toot or tweet) · · community, communication
- Is It Time to Go Back to the Monolith? (toot or tweet) · · monoliths
- My CSS Wish List (toot or tweet) · · css, wish-lists
- CSS Grid Gap Behavior with Hidden Elements (toot or tweet) · · css, layout
- How to Inspect Interactions in the Browser (toot or tweet) · · user-agents, dev-tools, debugging
- Git: How to Skip Hooks (toot or tweet) · · git
- Change Tab Bar Color Dynamically Using JavaScript (toot or tweet) · · javascript, colors, theming, user-agents
- An Approach to Lazy Loading Custom Elements (toot or tweet) · · custom-elements, performance
- So, What’s Next [for core-js]? (toot or tweet) · · javascript, open-source, community, economics
- This Is Why Performance Matters (toot or tweet) · · performance, javascript, user-experience
- Declarative Shadow DOM (toot or tweet) · · dom, shadow-dom
- Technical Writing Process: How to Write a Good Technical Article (toot or tweet) · · writing, processes
- Rethinking the Modern Web (toot or tweet) · · javascript, web-platform, tooling
- Sandboxing JavaScript Code (toot or tweet) · · javascript, security
- My CSS Wishlist (toot or tweet) · · css, wish-lists
- A Minimal, Multi-Framework, Responsive Image Component (toot or tweet) · · components, responsive-design, frameworks
- Automated Testing Won’t Solve Web Accessibility (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, testing, automation
- Technical SEO Basics for React Developers (toot or tweet) · · seo, react
- A Comparison of SUS, UMUX-LITE, and UEQ-S (toot or tweet) · · studies, research, user-experience, comparisons
- Platform Engineering Teams Done Right… (toot or tweet) · · principles
- Why I’m Not the Biggest Fan of Single Page Applications (toot or tweet) · · spas
- Foundations: Introduction to WAI-ARIA (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, introductions, aria
- Discovering Primitive Objects in JavaScript (toot or tweet) · · javascript, objects
- How to Scale Node.js Applications with Clustering (toot or tweet) · · nodejs, scaling
- Caching at DEV (toot or tweet) · · caching, performance
- React.js: The Documentary (toot or tweet) · · videos, react, history
- The Case for Frameworks (toot or tweet) · · javascript, frameworks, web-platform
- Different Ways to Get CSS Gradient Shadows (toot or tweet) · · css, gradients, shadows
- Quick Guide for YAML (toot or tweet) · · guides, yaml
- Improved Font Fallbacks (toot or tweet) · · fonts, typography, graceful-degradation
- You Kinda Want an Orange Favicon (toot or tweet) · · images, favicons, user-agents, theming
- Can You Be a Designer If You Have No Training? (toot or tweet) · · design, career
- Classless CSS Frameworks (toot or tweet) · · css, frameworks
- Moving Backgrounds (toot or tweet) · · css, backgrounds
- My CSS Wishlist (toot or tweet) · · css, wish-lists
- The Troublesome Life and Lamentable Death of Success Criterion 4.1.1 (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, wcag, conformance, standards
- What’s New in Lighthouse 10 (toot or tweet) · · release-notes, performance, google, lighthouse
- More Control over “:nth-child()” Selections with the “of S” Syntax (toot or tweet) · · css, selectors
- Creating Sites, the Jamstack Way (toot or tweet) · · jamstack
- Top 13 Node.js Books for Beginners and Advanced Coders (toot or tweet) · · books, nodejs
- CSS Wish List 2023 (toot or tweet) · · css, wish-lists
- Try Out CSS Nesting Today (toot or tweet) · · css, nesting, user-agents, support
- Use Maps More and Objects Less (toot or tweet) · · javascript, objects
- No SVG, No Image, CSS-Only Fluid Slider with “input[type=range]” (toot or tweet) · · code-pens, css, sass, effects
- Focus Appearance Thoughts (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, css
- Modularizing React Applications with Established UI Patterns (toot or tweet) · · react, components, modules
- A “color-contrast()” Strategy for Complimentary Translucent Backgrounds (toot or tweet) · · css, colors, contrast, backgrounds, strategies
- Advanced Figma Prototyping Tips and Tricks (toot or tweet) · · figma, prototyping, tips, tricks
- Table of Contents Progress Animation (toot or tweet) · · html, css, javascript, animations
- How to Add an Event Handler in React (toot or tweet) · · react, dom, events
- Mozilla, Like Google, Is Looking Ahead to the End of Apple’s WebKit Rule (toot or tweet) · · mozilla, google, apple, rendering, engines, webkit
- Quick Tip: How to Check If a Variable Is Set in PHP (toot or tweet) · · php, tips
- How to Write Semantic CSS (toot or tweet) · · videos, css, semantics
- How to Build Accessible Main Navigation? (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, navigation
- Testing Colour Accessibility with Dev Tools (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, colors, testing, user-agents, dev-tools
- Testing Vue Components the Right Way (toot or tweet) · · vuejs, components, testing
- Frontend Frameworks for Web-App Development (toot or tweet) · · frameworks, web-apps