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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…
December 6th, 2018 was a special date for WordPress: it marked the release of version 5.0 of the software that, to this day, powers more than one-third of the web. In the past, people working on the platform pointed out that there has never been any special meaning to version Read more…
I got this question the other day. My first thought is: weird question! Specificity is about selectors, and at-rules are not selectors, so… irrelevant? To prove that, we can use the same selector inside and outside of an at-rule and see if it seems to affect specificity. body { background: Read more…
The point of the element (behind a flag in Chrome Canary) is that you can preload another whole page (like ), but then have APIs to animate it to the current page. So “Single Page App”-like functionality (SPA), but natively. I think that’s pretty cool. I’m a fan of JavaScript Read more…
The most famous line of code to have come out of CSS grid so far is: grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fill, minmax(10rem, 1fr)); Without any media queries, that will set up a grid container that has a flexible number of columns. The columns will stretch a little, until there is enough room for Read more…
Scott Jehl: One of the most impactful things we can do to improve page performance and resilience is to load CSS in a way that does not delay page rendering. That’s because by default, browsers will load external CSS synchronously—halting all page rendering while the CSS is downloaded and parsed—both Read more…
Mike Pennisi: The web-platform-tests project is a massive suite of tests (over one million in total) which verify that software (mostly web browsers) correctly implement web technologies. It’s as important as it is ambitious: the health of the web depends on a plurality of interoperable implementations. Although Bocoup has been Read more…
