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Choosing the right tools to build a website for your organization is essential, but it can be tough to find the right fit. Simple site builders like Wix and Squarespace are easy for marketers to use, but severely limit developers when it comes to customizing site functionality. WordPress is a Read more…

I fell in love with coding the moment I created my first CSS :hover effect. Years later, that initial bite into interactivity on the web led me to a new goal: making a game. Table of contents What’s the game (and what’s that name)? Choosing Nuxt Achieving native app feel Read more…

I like a good trick. What if… a URL was… a promise… that fetched said URL? www.codepen.io.then((response) => { console.log(response); }); That’s what @justjavac did with JavaScript Proxys. A clever trick, that. Don’t @ me about the practicality. Trick, folks. Direct Link to Article — Permalink The post proxy-www appeared Read more…

Making GitHub’s new homepage fast and performant — Tobias Ahlin describes how the scrolling effects are done more performantly thanks to IntersectionObserver and the fact that it avoids the use of methods that trigger reflows, like getBoundingClientRect. Also, WebP + SVG masks! Everything we know about Core Web Vitals and Read more…

By our last estimate, there are now more PDFs in the world than atoms in the universe (not verified by outside sources) so chances are, from time to time, you’re going to run into a PDF document or two. Browsers do a reasonably good job of handling PDFs. Typically, clicking Read more…

Stefan Judis, two days before I mouthed off about using (X, X, X, X) for talking about specificity, has a great blog post not only using that format, but advocating that browser DevTools should show us that value by selectors. I think that the above additions could help to educate Read more…