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Elm at Rakuten

In our team at Rakuten, we have been using Elm1 in production for almost two years now. This post is about our story, the lessons we learned, and our likes and dislikes. This post is quite long so if you prefer to see an overview, feel free to jump to the index. Everything started in the Berlin branch of Rakuten…

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CSS Modules

If you wanted to identify an inflection point in the recent development of CSS thinking, you’d probably pick Christopher Chedeau’s “CSS in JS” talk from NationJS in November, 2014. It was a watershed moment that set a bunch of different minds spiralling off in their own directions like particles after a high-energy…

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Amazon Location Service

Update June 1, 2021 – Amazon Location Service is now generally available and includes routing and raster (satellite) maps. You can easily and securely add maps, geocoding, routing, tracking, and geofencing to your applications. Read more about the new features in our new blog post here or try it now in the console. We…

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Firefox 93

Firefox now supports the new AVIF image format, which is based on the modern and royalty free AV1 video codec. It offers significant bandwidth savings for sites compared to existing image formats. It also supports transparency and other advanced features.