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18.5.2020
It’s interesting how third-parties are sometimes super involved in pushing browser things forward. One big story there was how Bloomberg hired Igalia to implement CSS grid across the browsers.
Here’s another story of Bocoup doing that, this time for the appearance property. The story...
Notion-Powered Websites
14.5.2020
I’m a big fan of Notion, as you likely know from previous coverage and recent video. It’s always interesting to see what other people do with Notion, and even how Notion uses Notion.
I’d say most usage of Notion is private and internal, but any page on Notion can be totally...
10 Interesting JavaScript and CSS Libraries for May 2020
11.5.2020
A collection of our favorite web dev resources for the month of May, featuring useful JS tools, React components, and more!
How to Make a CSS-Only Carousel
24.4.2020
We mentioned a way to make a CSS-only carousel in a recent issue of the newsletter and I thought that a more detailed write up would be interesting and capture some of my thoughts on making one.
So, here’s what we’re making today:
There’s no JavaScript here, whatsoever! No jQuery plugins....
Fake Code
21.4.2020
Here’s a fun little idea from Knut Synstad. You give it the URL of a GitHub Gist and it converts the Gist into grayscale rounded blobs (SVG) that sorta look like code if you squint. Maybe fun for interesting dynamic backgrounds or for whatever you might use code-looking stock art for.
It...
How (some) good corporate engineering blogs are written
18.4.2020
Interesting research from Dan Luu:
… it’s pretty common for my personal blog to get more traffic than the entire corp eng blog for a company with a nine to ten figure valuation and it’s not uncommon for my blog to get an order of magnitude more traffic.
I think this is...
No-Class CSS Frameworks
13.4.2020
I linked up Water.css not long ago as an interesting sort of CSS framework. No classes. No <h2 class="is-title">. You just use semantic HTML and get styles. Is that going to “scale” very far? Probably not, but it sure is handy for styling things quickly, where — of course...
10 Interesting JavaScript and CSS Libraries for April 2020
13.4.2020
Our compilation for the month of April comes packed with awesome new web dev tools, including lots of Bootstrap goodies, a new testing framework, and more!
Detect git Directory with Bash
2.4.2020
One interesting aspect of working at Mozilla is that Firefox lives in a mercurial repository while several other projects live on GitHub in a git repository. While most focus on either Firefox or another project, I switch between both, leaving me running git commands inside the mercurial repository...
Inspirational Websites Roundup #14
30.3.2020
This roundup contains our personal selection of the most interesting websites that were released in the past couple of weeks.
Inspirational Websites Roundup #14 was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
Careful with Nested `display: grid; height: 100%;`
11.3.2020
It's not every day you can feel CSS be slow at something. Reddit user jgbbrd discovered nesting grid containers that all have 100% height can cause many-seconds of rendering delay. Probably not something you'll ever have to worry about, but still, interesting. From the comments:
What a funny...
Sass !default and themeable design systems
11.3.2020
This is a great blog post from Brad Frost where he walks us through an interesting example. Let’s say we’re making a theme and we have some Sass like this:
.c-text-input {
background-color: $form-background-color;
padding: 10px
}
If the $form-background-color variable isn’t defined then...
10 Interesting JavaScript and CSS Libraries for March 2020
10.3.2020
New JavaScript tools from the Facebook developers team, an excellent Electron starter kit. and more in our web dev resources compilation for March!
The Slideout Footer
5.3.2020
A fascinating new site called The Markup just launched. Tagline: Big Tech Is Watching You. We’re Watching Big Tech. Great work from Upstatement. The content looks amazing, but of course, around here we're always interested in the design and tech as well. There is loads to adore, from the clean...
Awesome Demos Roundup #14
3.3.2020
Over the past weeks we've collected super interesting and creative web experiments for your inspiration.
Awesome Demos Roundup #14 was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words: 18 of the Coolest Visualizations for Exploring the Bitcoin Network
1.3.2020
Analyzing and exploring the Bitcoin blockchain is always interesting, but for the more abstract thinker, several sites provide unique looks at the network, nodes, and transaction data in easy to grok, visual fashion. Some of these even border on the psychedelic or sci-fi otherworldly, taking...
Bitcoin Cash Captured More Than 10% of Darknet Sales Last Month
12.2.2020
2019 was an interesting year for darknet markets (DNMs) and a number of marketplaces closed for a variety of reasons. Despite the closures, crypto payments on DNMs doubled for the first time in five years. Moreover, statistics from the blockchain analytics provider 1000x Group show digital...
10 Interesting JavaScript and CSS Libraries for February 2020
11.2.2020
Our web dev resources compilation for February comes packed with awesome React frameworks, tools for writing better tests, and much more!
UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #3
10.2.2020
The latest collection of interesting and modern UI interaction and animation concepts.
UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #3 was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
Metanyx Gears Up for 2020 With Interesting Roadmap
9.2.2020
Metanyx, if to be described in simple words, is like a junction where many blockchain experts and enthusiasts work together, sync their skills, passion, experience, and vision to develop the blockchain ecosystem a notch higher. The platform offers cutting-edge, well-grounded staking services....