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Listen, I am no GraphQL expert but I do enjoy working with it. The way it exposes data to me as a front-end developer is pretty cool. It’s like a menu of available data and I can ask for whatever I want. That’s a massive improvement over REST and highly Read more…
You’ve created a Progressive Web App (PWA), designed an icon to represent it, and now you’re installing it to your Android home screen. But, if you have a recent Android phone, your icons will show up like this: What happened? Well, Android Oreo introduced adaptive icons, a new icon format Read more…
The landing page for Apple Arcade has a cool effect where some “white” text has a sort of translucent effect. You can see some of the color of the background behind it through the text. It’s not like knockout text where you see the exact background. In this case, live Read more…
I can’t say I use background-clip all that often. I’d wager it’s hardly ever used in day-to-day CSS work. But I was reminded of it in a post by Stefan Judis, which coincidentally was itself a learning-response post to a post over here by Ana Tudor. Here’s a quick explanation. Read more…
One of my favorite ways of adding icons to a site is by including them as data URL background images to pseudo-elements (e.g. ::after) in my CSS. This technique offers several advantages: They don’t require any additional HTTP requests other than the CSS file. Using the background-size property, you can Read more…
Kinda! There is no simple or standard way to do it, but it’s possible. You can change the cursor to different built-in native versions with CSS with the cursor property, but that doesn’t help much here. You can also use that property to set a static image as the cursor. Read more…
Blocks have become an indispensable component for managing content in WordPress since the Gutenberg editor was officially released earlier this year. Not only does WordPress include some nifty blocks right out of the box, but we’re starting to see plugin developers take advantage of them and provide some interesting ones Read more…
(This is a sponsored post.) An Event Apart juuuuust wrapped up its Washington D.C. event yesterday. We hope we got to see you at the event but if not, perhaps we’ll see you at the next one happening Aug. 28-28 in Chicago. Why would you go, you might ask? It’s Read more…
You’re probably used to fetching data in React using axios or fetch. The usual method of handling data fetching is to: Make the API call. Update state using the response if all goes as planned. Or, in cases where errors are encountered, an error message is displayed to the user. Read more…
In today’s Adobe Illustrator video tutorial we’re going to have some fun creating a retro mascot character design of a hot dog, using inspiration from the classic cartoon style of the 1930s known as “rubber hose”. Imagine the early Disney or Fleischer Studios characters with their bendy limbs, pie-shaded eyes Read more…
