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- How Do Primitive Values Get Their Properties? (toot or tweet) · · javascript
- How Many Hyperlinks Are Too Many for Accessibility? (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, hypertext
- How to Make a “Raise the Curtains” Effect in CSS (toot or tweet) · · css, effects
- How to Use Higher-Order Functions in JavaScript (toot or tweet) · · javascript
- Progressive Enhancement, the New Hotness (toot or tweet) · · progressive-enhancement
- Taming CSS Variables With Web Inspector (toot or tweet) · · css, custom-properties, user-agents, tooling
- Simple Color System for Complex Digital Interfaces (toot or tweet) · · websites, design-systems, colors, complexity
- What’s Really Going On Inside Your node_modules Folder? (toot or tweet) · · nodejs, npm, dependencies
- New CSS Features in 2022 (toot or tweet) · · css
- 5 Things You Don’t Need JavaScript For (toot or tweet) · · javascript
- A Recipe for a Good Design System (toot or tweet) · · design-systems
- Accessibility Checklist: Five Things Usually Left Out (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, checklists
- Foundations: Headings (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, html, semantics
- (Not So) Short Note on Being Owned (toot or tweet) · · html, aria, accessibility
- Web Component Pseudo-Classes and Pseudo-Elements Are Easier Than You Think (toot or tweet) · · html, css, components
- How to Build a File Upload Service With Vanilla JavaScript (toot or tweet) · · javascript
- CSS “content” Property (toot or tweet) · · css
- Higher-Order Components in React Hooks Era (toot or tweet) · · components, react, hooks
- Importing ES6 Modules over HTTP/HTTPS in Node.js (toot or tweet) · · javascript, modules, http, nodejs
- Should Frontend Devs Care About Performance? (toot or tweet) · · performance
- Solid.js Feels Like What I Always Wanted React to Be (toot or tweet) · · frameworks, react
- Top 2021 CSS Frameworks Report: The CSS File Sizes (toot or tweet) · · studies, frameworks, css, performance
- 4 Simple Ways to Improve Web Accessibility (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, optimization
- How I Structure My React Projects (toot or tweet) · · react, architecture
- Overlay Position and Recommendations (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, overlays
- Screaming Architecture—Evolution of a React Folder Structure (toot or tweet) · · react, architecture
- When to Avoid the “text-decoration” Shorthand Property (toot or tweet) · · css
- Accessibility and Inclusivity in Practice (toot or tweet) · · podcasts, accessibility, inclusion
- Understanding Dependencies Inside Your package.json (toot or tweet) · · nodejs, dependencies, npm, yarn
- 5 Accessibility Quick Wins You Can Implement Today (toot or tweet) · · accessibility
- A Complete Guide to CSV Files in Node.js (toot or tweet) · · guides, nodejs, csv
- Container Queries, the Next Step Towards a Truly Modular CSS (toot or tweet) · · videos, css, container-queries
- Moving from Next to Remix (toot or tweet) · · frameworks, nextjs, remix, comparisons
- Can You Get Pwned With CSS? (toot or tweet) · · css, security
- How to Fix Your Security Vulnerabilities With npm Override (toot or tweet) · · security, npm, dependencies
- HTML Comments Work in JavaScript Too (toot or tweet) · · javascript, html, documentation
- How to Make MPAs That Are as Fast as SPAs (toot or tweet) · · performance, spas
- 15 Useful Placeholder Tools for Designers and Developers (toot or tweet) · · tooling, images, content, placeholders, testing
- Comparing Gatsby and Next.js for Website Development (toot or tweet) · · gatsby, nextjs, comparisons, static-site-generators
- Component Tokens and Themes Example (to Learn Figma Tokens) (toot or tweet) · · design, theming, design-tokens, components, figma
- Design Systems in Figma: How to Be More Productive (toot or tweet) · · design-systems, figma, productivity
- How to Prioritize Your Components (toot or tweet) · · design-systems, components
- Inclusive Design vs. Accessible Design: Understanding the Differences (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, inclusion, design, comparisons
- Reliably Send an HTTP Request as a User Leaves a Page (toot or tweet) · · http
- SPAs Were a Mistake (toot or tweet) · · spas
- Support for Marking Radio Buttons Required, Invalid (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, html
- Turning the Tables on Accessibility (toot or tweet) · · accessibility
- What Is Responsible JavaScript? (toot or tweet) · · podcasts, javascript
- The Case for Adding Validation State to Your Design Tokens (toot or tweet) · · design-tokens, validation
- Favi-Gone: 6 Reasons Why Your Favicon Disappeared from the Google Search Results (toot or tweet) · · images, favicons, google, seo
- A Complete Guide to CSS Cascade Layers (toot or tweet) · · guides, css, cascade
- CSS Quick Tip: Animating in a Newly Added Element (toot or tweet) · · css, animations, tips
- Design System: How to Successfully Collaborate? (toot or tweet) · · design-systems, collaboration
- How Websites Die (toot or tweet) · · web, link-rot
- Let’s Get Inclusive: Designing Products for Everyone (toot or tweet) · · design, inclusion
- Writing Logic in CSS (toot or tweet) · · css
- Column Headers and Browser Support (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, html, semantics
- Invisible Characters (toot or tweet) · · websites, unicode
- Minimizing Google Fonts by Only Loading It for Certain Characters (toot or tweet) · · typography, fonts, google, performance, minimalism
- React State Management Libraries in 2022 (toot or tweet) · · react, state-management, libraries
- You Can “throw()” Anything in JavaScript—and Other “async”/“await” Considerations (toot or tweet) · · javascript
- There Is No Character Limit for “Alt Text” (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, html
- Comparing Node JavaScript to JavaScript in the Browser (toot or tweet) · · javascript, nodejs, user-agents, comparisons
- Core Web Vitals: What Next? (toot or tweet) · · performance, web-vitals, seo
- Structuring Documentation in Multi-Brand Design Systems (toot or tweet) · · design-systems, documentation
- Using “mask” as “clip-path” (toot or tweet) · · svg, css, masking
- Flexbox Dynamic Line Separator (toot or tweet) · · css
- Web Developers and Cognitive Biases (toot or tweet) · · productivity, career
- What Makes Writing More Readable? (toot or tweet) · · writing, readability
- How to Create a Search Page for a Static Website With Vanilla JS (toot or tweet) · · html, javascript
- 7 Lessons I’ve Learned in the Last Year as a Software Engineer (toot or tweet) · · career
- The Harsh Reality for JavaScript Developers: If You Don’t Study the Fundamentals You Will Be Just Another “Coder” (toot or tweet) · · javascript, fundamentals, career
- The State of JavaScript 2021 (toot or tweet) · · surveys, javascript
- Track Down the JavaScript Code Responsible for Polluting the Global Scope (toot or tweet) · · javascript
- What is the Difference Between WCAG Compliance Level A, AA, and AAA? (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, wcag, compliance
- An Auto-Filling CSS Grid With Max Columns of a Minimum Size (toot or tweet) · · css, layout
- 10 Mental Models Developers Can Use to Get Unstuck (toot or tweet) · · productivity
- Colors That Make Sense (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, semantics, colors
- Foundations: Colour and Meaning (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, colors
- The Basics of package.json (toot or tweet) · · nodejs, dependencies, npm, yarn
- Version 100 in Chrome and Firefox (toot or tweet) · · user-agents, support, google, chrome, mozilla, firefox
- 7 Killer One-Liners in JavaScript (toot or tweet) · · javascript
- WCAG 2.2 Update (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, wcag
- Functions and the Future of Design Systems (toot or tweet) · · design-systems
- The Entire Cascade (as a Funnel) (toot or tweet) · · code-pens, css, cascade
- Hello, CSS Cascade Layers (toot or tweet) · · css, cascade
- Using the Language Attribute to Make Your Website Accessible (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, localization, internationalization
- Why Radio Buttons Are Called Radio Buttons in UIs? (toot or tweet) · · html, semantics, naming
- Multi-Value CSS Properties With Optional Custom Property Values (toot or tweet) · · css, custom-properties
- How to Keep Your Repo Package Dependencies Up to Date Automatically (toot or tweet) · · dependencies, tooling
- Moving from JavaScript to TypeScript (toot or tweet) · · javascript, typescript
- Accessibility Monitoring: How We Test (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, monitoring, testing
- Everything Publishers Need to Know About URLs (toot or tweet) · · seo, naming
- How Thinking About Hierarchical Grids Helps You Take a Content-First Approach to Design (toot or tweet) · · design, layout, content
- How to Make CSS Slanted Containers (toot or tweet) · · css
- MHTML in Chromium (toot or tweet) · · html, user-agents
- Only 2% of Sites Meet Accessibility Standards—Let’s Change That (toot or tweet) · · accessibility
- The Difference Between Brotli and Gzip Compression Algorithms to Speed Up Your Site (toot or tweet) · · performance, compression
- What I Learned Implementing a Design System for an Existing Product (toot or tweet) · · design-systems
- Building an Adaptive Favicon (toot or tweet) · · images, favicons
- Debugging JavaScript (toot or tweet) · · javascript, debugging
- Developing a Focus Style for a Themable Design System (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, design-systems, theming
- This Is Why Your Node.js Application Is Slow (toot or tweet) · · performance, nodejs
- Aspect Ratio Is Great (toot or tweet) · · css, layout
- New in JavaScript: “reportError”—a Method to Report to Global Event Handlers (toot or tweet) · · javascript, events
- Move Over JavaScript: Back-End Languages Are Coming to the Front-End (toot or tweet) · · javascript
- Replace JavaScript Dialogs With the New HTML Dialog Element (toot or tweet) · · html, semantics
- Accessibility Testing Best Practices in CI/CD (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, testing, ci-cd, best-practices
- Creating Generative SVG Grids (toot or tweet) · · javascript, svg
- CSS Animations Tutorial: Complete Guide for Beginners (toot or tweet) · · guides, css, animations
- Do We Need Screen Reader for Accessibility Testing (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, testing, user-agents, assistive-tech
- Modern, Single-Page Web Design: UX Design Trends and Tips (toot or tweet) · · design, user-experience, trends
- Introducing the Dialog Element (toot or tweet) · · html, introductions
- How to Favicon in 2022: Six Files That Fit Most Needs (toot or tweet) · · images, favicons
- How to Create a UX-Vision Statement (toot or tweet) · · user-experience
- How to Use the Accessibility Tree for A11Y Testing (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, testing
- UX and User Personas: How to Get it Right (toot or tweet) · · user-experience, usability, personas
- Are We Live? (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, aria
- Design System Versioning: Single Library or Individual Components? (toot or tweet) · · design-systems, versioning
- Foundations: Colour Contrast (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, colors, contrast
- Understanding the W3C’s Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Requirements (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, conformance, testing
- What Web Frameworks Solve: The Vanilla Alternative (toot or tweet) · · frameworks, javascript, react
- 8 Key Elements for Creating a Culture of Accessibility (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, culture
- The Impact of Motion Animation on Cognitive Disability (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, css, javascript
- Why Efficient Hydration in JavaScript Frameworks Is So Challenging (toot or tweet) · · javascript, frameworks, hydration
- Reducing the Web’s Carbon Footprint: Optimizing Social Media Embeds (toot or tweet) · · social-media, embed-code, sustainability, performance
- No Accessibility Without Disabilities (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, user-experience
- Assistive Technology, Accessible Technology, and the Accessibility Tree (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, user-agents, assistive-tech, tooling
- Grow Your Design System from Good to Great (toot or tweet) · · design-systems
- Settings Are Not a Design Failure (toot or tweet) · · design, usability, user-experience
- State of Frontend 2022 (toot or tweet) · · surveys
- Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting (toot or tweet) · · javascript, performance, bundling, optimization
- 24 Lesser-Known HTML Attributes You May Want to Use (toot or tweet) · · html
- 5 Pitfalls of Using Micro Frontends and How to Avoid Them (toot or tweet) · · micro-frontends
- Building Like It’s 1984: A Comprehensive Guide to Creating Intuitive Context Menus (toot or tweet) · · guides, design, usability
- Career Advice Nobody Gave Me: Never Ignore a Recruiter (toot or tweet) · · career
- Structuring Your Storybook (toot or tweet) · · storybook
- Website Themes and Color Schemes (toot or tweet) · · design, theming, color-palettes
- “Evergreen” Does Not Mean Immediately Available (toot or tweet) · · user-agents
- CSS—Understanding the Cascade (toot or tweet) · · videos, css, cascade
- Cascade Layers Are Coming to Your Browser (toot or tweet) · · css, cascade, user-agents, support
- 4 Questions to Ask Before Using ARIA (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, aria, semantics, testing
- Accessibly Insecure (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, security
- Speed Matters, but It Isn’t Everything (toot or tweet) · · performance, user-experience, metrics
- The Focus-Indicated Pseudo-Class “:focus-visible” (toot or tweet) · · css
- Use Cases for CSS “fit-content” (toot or tweet) · · css
- Learn Responsive Design (toot or tweet) · · courses, responsive-design
- A More Easy Way to Write “if … or” Checks With Vanilla JavaScript (toot or tweet) · · javascript
- Preventing Smooth Scrolling With JavaScript (toot or tweet) · · javascript, scrolling
- Inclusive Design (toot or tweet) · · design, inclusion
- Cascade Layers: First Contact (toot or tweet) · · css, cascade
- Internal Onboarding for Design System Teams (toot or tweet) · · design-systems, onboarding
- Why Testing After Is a Bad Practice (toot or tweet) · · testing
- Why You Should Use a Developer Font (toot or tweet) · · fonts, typography, productivity
- What Web Frameworks Solve and How to Do Without Them (toot or tweet) · · frameworks, react, svelte
- WCAG, but in Language I Can Understand (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, wcag
- How Does “!important” Actually Work? (toot or tweet) · · videos, css, cascade
- A Pipe Operator for JavaScript: Introduction and Use Cases (toot or tweet) · · introductions, javascript
- Caching Header Best Practices (toot or tweet) · · performance, caching, best-practices
- Cherry Picking Commits in Git (toot or tweet) · · git, command-line
- Demystifying TypeScript Discriminated Unions (toot or tweet) · · typescript
- Naming Design Tokens (toot or tweet) · · design-tokens, naming
- There’s No Such Thing as Clean Code (toot or tweet) · · developer-experience, quality
- To Create an Excellent Design System, Treat It Like a Collaborative Process (toot or tweet) · · design-systems, processes, collaboration
- Top Ten Most Common Web Accessibility Issues (toot or tweet) · · accessibility
- WebAssembly Feature Detection (toot or tweet) · · webassembly, feature-detection, support
- Design System: How to Efficiently Scale Development? (toot or tweet) · · design-systems, scaling
- How to Convert Markdown to HTML (toot or tweet) · · markdown, html, conversion
- The Baseline for Web Development in 2022 (toot or tweet) · · web-platform
- The Double-Assignment Pattern in jQuery’s Source Code (toot or tweet) · · jquery, javascript
- The Return of Server Side Routing (toot or tweet) · · routing
- Overview of Accessibility Testing Using DevTools (toot or tweet) · · dev-tools, accessibility, testing, user-agents, microsoft, edge
- What’s New in DevTools? (toot or tweet) · · dev-tools, user-agents, google, chrome, microsoft, edge, apple, safari, mozilla, firefox
- Fancy CSS Borders Using Masks (toot or tweet) · · css, decoration, masking
- Here’s What I Didn’t Know About “:where()” (toot or tweet) · · css, selectors
- An Introduction to CSS Cascade Layers (toot or tweet) · · introductions, css, cascade
- Best Practices for Creating Your UX Design Portfolio (toot or tweet) · · user-experience, design, career, best-practices
- Foundations: Text Descriptions (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, writing
- Monorepo Explained (toot or tweet) · · websites, monorepos
- The Risks and Rewards of App Modernization (toot or tweet) · · maintenance, modernization, quality
- Why Don’t Developers Take Accessibility Seriously? (toot or tweet) · · accessibility
- Drift: Why Your Design System Isn’t Working (toot or tweet) · · design-systems, design-debt
- More to Give Than Just the Div: Semantics and How to Get Them Right (toot or tweet) · · html, semantics, accessibility
- Context-Aware Web Components Are Easier Than You Think (toot or tweet) · · components, html, javascript
- How to Check What Item Is in Focus When Accessibility Testing (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, testing
- Technology Time-Outs (toot or tweet) · · processes, productivity
- The Many Ways to Modify Leading and Trailing Characters from Strings With JavaScript (toot or tweet) · · javascript
- Accessibility Acceptance Criteria (toot or tweet) · · websites, accessibility, testing, components
- Big Images, Blazingly Fast (toot or tweet) · · performance, images, quality
- Frontend Predictions for 2022 (toot or tweet) · · web-platform
- Div Divisiveness (toot or tweet) · · html, semantics
- Optimize Your PNGs With Oxipng and pre-commit (toot or tweet) · · images, png, performance, compression, tooling
- The Future of CSS: Detect At-Rule Support With “@ supports at-rule(@ keyword)” (toot or tweet) · · css, support
- An Introduction to High Contrast Accessibility (toot or tweet) · · introductions, accessibility, contrast
- Design Systems Are Flawed (toot or tweet) · · design-systems
- Giving Web Standards a Seat at the Table (toot or tweet) · · standards, history
- How to Avoid Layout Shifts Caused by Web Fonts (toot or tweet) · · performance, user-experience, fonts
- The Breakpoints We Tested in 2021 and 2022, and the Ones to Test in 2023 (toot or tweet) · · responsive-design, css
- What Should Someone Learn About CSS If They Last Boned Up During CSS3? (toot or tweet) · · css
- Create an Open Graph Image Generator With Node.js (toot or tweet) · · nodejs, open-graph, images
- How to Set Up a Node.js Project With TypeScript (toot or tweet) · · nodejs, typescript
- Making IT Accessible for All! (toot or tweet) · · videos, accessibility
- Naming Conventions for Your Design System (toot or tweet) · · design-systems, naming, conventions
- Quick Accessibility Tests Anyone Can Do (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, user-experience, testing
- TypeScript Features to Avoid (toot or tweet) · · typescript
- Building UI Components With SVG and CSS (toot or tweet) · · components, svg, css
- Using PostCSS With Media Queries Level 4 (toot or tweet) · · css, tooling, media-queries
- Becoming a Better Writer as a Software Engineer (toot or tweet) · · writing, career
- Frontend Challenges: Front-End Engineer Assignment (toot or tweet) · · react, javascript, typescript, training
- Modern Fluid Typography Using CSS Clamp (toot or tweet) · · css, typography
- On the Difficulty of Counting the Number of HTML Elements (toot or tweet) · · html
- Rethinking Component Libraries (toot or tweet) · · components
- The Real Added Costs of Accessibility (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, economics
- Comparing CSS Specificity Values (toot or tweet) · · css, cascade
- Find HTML Parsing Errors (toot or tweet) · · user-agents, dev-tools, html, parsing, quality
- Choosing Open Source License Wisely (toot or tweet) · · open-source, licensing
- “structuredClone()”: Deeply Copying Objects in JavaScript (toot or tweet) · · javascript, objects
- Accessibility Data Is Not the Enemy (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, metrics
- CSS Cascade Layers: An Overview of the New “@ layer” and “layer()” CSS Primitives (toot or tweet) · · videos, css, cascade
- Accessibility and 2022: 13 Design Trends from a Usability Perspective (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, design, trends, usability
- Building an Accessible Digital World (toot or tweet) · · accessibility
- Git Organized: A Better Git Flow (toot or tweet) · · git, command-line, processes
- Rationalise It! 5 Steps to Introduce a New Component to the Design System (toot or tweet) · · design-systems, components
- An Introduction to Tech Debt (And Why It Can Change Your Career) (toot or tweet) · · introductions, technical-debt, career
- Boolean Attributes in HTML and ARIA: What’s the Difference? (toot or tweet) · · html, aria
- Web Accessibility Lawsuits Dramatically Rose in 2021 (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, conformance, legal
- Website Performance and the Planet (toot or tweet) · · performance, sustainability, caching
- Make Beautiful Gradients (toot or tweet) · · css, gradients
- PHP in 2022 (toot or tweet) · · php
- Remix vs. Next.js (toot or tweet) · · remix, nextjs, comparisons
- Social Media Image Sizes 2022: Cheat Sheet for Every Network (toot or tweet) · · cheat-sheets, social-media, images
- Software Is Automating Design—What Does That Mean for Designers? (toot or tweet) · · design, automation
- Revisiting Why Hyperlinks Are Blue (toot or tweet) · · design, hypertext
- A Deep CSS Dive into Radial and Conic Gradients (toot or tweet) · · css, gradients
- Alt Tag Emptiness (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, html, images, aria
- Don’t Fight the Cascade, Control It! (toot or tweet) · · css, cascade
- Foundations: Animations and Flashing Content (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, animations
- How Not to Learn TypeScript (toot or tweet) · · typescript
- HTML is General, ARIA is Specific (toot or tweet) · · html, aria
- Writing With Respect (toot or tweet) · · writing
- Memory Leaks, How to Avoid Them in a React App (toot or tweet) · · memory, react
- 22 Smart Google SEO Tips for 2022 (toot or tweet) · · seo, google, tips
- Ban Embed Codes (toot or tweet) · · embed-code
- Your CSS Reset Needs “text-size-adjust” (Probably) (toot or tweet) · · css, resetting
- Two Ways to Clear an Array With Vanilla JavaScript (toot or tweet) · · javascript, arrays
- How to Measure Your Design System? (toot or tweet) · · design-systems, metrics
- Labeling the Point: Scenarios of Label Misuse in WCAG (toot or tweet) · · accessibility, wcag, html
- Reduce the Pressure on Young and Inexperienced Developers (toot or tweet) · · career, training
- Memory Leaks: The Forgotten Side of Web Performance (toot or tweet) · · performance, memory
- 30 Frontend Tips (toot or tweet) · · career, tips