I’m a hyperlink maximalist: everything should be a hyperlink , including everything that is hyperlinked by the author, everything that isn’t hyperlinked by the author, and perhaps even the hyperlinks themselves. Words should be hyperlinked, but so should be every interesting phrase, quote, name, proper noun…
“Margin collapse” has a dastardly reputation, one of the trickier parts of CSS. Fortunately, it gets a lot easier once you learn a few rules! In this tutorial, we take a deep dive into the governing principles, and learn how to use them to our advantage.
The history, facts, and opinions.
I ran into an issue after accidently enabling HSTS for a website on localhost. This was not an issue for the original website that was runni...
Stop trying to make customElement happen. Do this instead.
Back in August 2020 , Google began testing a seemingly Apple Maps-inspired map style that added darker and deeper landcover colors throughout the world:
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Delve into best practices for HTTP, Ruby on Rails, and databases, and discover when to adhere to the rules or when breaking them could set your code apart.
blog-cells can turn any web page into an interactive code notebook, similar to Jupyter notebooks, but powered by JavaScript and running entirely in the browser.
Hacker News displays comments in a tree. This can be frustrating if you want to keep track of a particular conversation, as you constantly have to seek through the tree to find the latest comment.
Learn how to use to_form/1 and LiveView Streams to create a dynamic list of forms.
Ten dark patterns in UX design, from confirmshaming to the roach motel, what each one costs you in trust, and honest alternatives to use instead.
Servo project roadmap for 2023
I'm trying out TinaCMS to make it faster and easier to post here!
Trying to make web applications federated is a popular effort. Examples include things like the “fediverse”, as well as various other efforts, like attempts to make distributed software forges, and so on. However, all of these efforts suffer from a problem which is fundamental in building federated applications built…
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A rough edge with promises that can sneak up on you.
Originally, the domain part of a web address was all ASCII (so no accents, no emojis, no Chinese characters). This was extended a long time ago thanks to something called internationalized domain name (IDN). Today, in theory, you can use any Unicode character you like as part of a domain name, including emojis…
A function that computes to the first color if the used color scheme is light or unknown, or to the second color if the used color scheme is dark.
I started working on Flyaway with the intention of becoming familiar with Wayland, its protocols and extensions, and the wlroots library. Instead, I ended up genuinely liking all three.
The Qt Quick Compiler has learned a few new tricks recently that can make your QML code run a lot faster.
I've been doing a bit of work cleaning up the CSS on this blog in the past couple days — the CSS is from a template that I copied more than five years ago at this point, and it was pretty crufty even when I first got it.
Project Xanadu as a pattern language, rather than a failed software project
Comparing two identically designed websites, their weight, amount of HTML and CSS, rendering speed, and best practices.
Design unique user interfaces with dropdowns, dialogs, forms, navigation menus, tooltips, and more, all in a visual builder.
Large language models like GPT-4 are becoming increasingly capable, at an alarming rate. Within a couple of years, we won't need developers any more! …Or at least, that's the narrative going viral on social media. I'm much more optimistic about what these AI advancements mean for the future of software development.
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The age of frontend JavaScript frameworks eating the web world didn’t happen simply because some well-meaning developers found great DX. It happened because we were fed a line.
