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5 lessons design systems teams can learn from open-source maintainers
March 22, 2024
Open source development has major differences from corporate design systems of course, but a few key similarities make it a useful comparison: Both groups face pressure to expand adoption; both groups...
Read MoreNavigating the future of frontend
March 22, 2024
The frontend ecosystem is in a period of transition. Up-and-coming frontenders navigate a complex environment of competing frameworks, concepts, advocates, preferences, and best practices. Today, the ...
Read MoreMarking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter – World Wide Web Foundation
March 22, 2024
Original Hope Three and a half decades ago, when I invented the web, its trajectory was impossible to imagine. There was no roadmap to predict the course of its evolution, it was a captivating odyssey...
Read MoreOn Design Engineering: I think I might be a design engineer…
March 21, 2024
For several years, I’ve been wondering where I fit into the web development spectrum. Reflecting on my career, I can see a convergence towards a certain way of working. But I’ve not been able to n...
Read MoreDesign Engineering
March 20, 2024
Many engineering disciplines have a role called a Design Engineer—a title that has been more popular in software in recent years. Design Engineers tend to work on products and systems that involve a...
Read MoreA Collection of Design Engineers
March 20, 2024
Collecting people I know who work at the intersection of design and engineering, in an attempt to figure out what a design engineer is Source: A Collection of Design Engineers...
Read MoreSupercharge compression efficiency with shared dictionaries | Blog | Chrome for Developers
March 20, 2024
The Chrome team has been working on making shared dictionaries usable on the web, which are now available in an origin trial for both Brotli and ZStandard. Shared dictionaries can supplement Brotli an...
Read MoreA React Developers Guide to Writing Enhance Components
March 18, 2024
Frequently, we are asked by React developers why patterns they have learned while writing components using JSX do not translate to writing web components. In this post, I’ll try to capture some comm...
Read MoreJavaScript Visualized Series’ Articles – DEV Community
March 15, 2024
JavaScript Visualised is a 7 part animated series on core concepts of JavaScript from Lydia Hallie. From the Event Loop to Asynch/Await and much in between! Source: JavaScript Visualized Series’...
Read MoreHello INP! Here’s everything you need to know about the newest Core Web Vital
March 15, 2024
After years of development and testing, Google has added Interaction to Next Paint (INP) to its trifecta of Core Web Vitals – the performance metrics that are a key ingredient in its search ranking...
Read MoreInteraction to Next Paint is officially a Core Web Vital 🚀
March 15, 2024
Today’s the day! After years of work, we’re finally ready to make Interaction to Next Paint (INP) a stable Core Web Vital metric. This marks a significant step forward in the way we measur...
Read MoreCSS for printing to paper
March 14, 2024
This article explains some of the CSS basics that control how your webpages look when printed, and a couple of tips and tricks I’ve learned that might help you out. Source: CSS for printing to p...
Read MoreGetting a pulse on your Core Web Vitals 🩺 with Annie Sullivan & Rick Viscomi from the Chrome team
March 13, 2024
Annie Sullivan and Rick Viscomi, from the team responsible for Core Web Vitals discuss the different vitals and learn how they are helpful, as well as introduce the newest vital to hit the scene, Inte...
Read MoreStreaming HTML – Frontend Masters Boost
March 12, 2024
Quick summary: Streamed HTML is as you imagine it. Rather than serving the entire HTML document at once, servers serve pieces of it. The browser gets these pieces and can start working on them, even r...
Read MoreWhy Browsers Get Built – Infrequently Noted
March 12, 2024
There are only two-and-a-half reasons to build a browser, and they couldn’t be more different in intent and outcome, even when they look superficially similar. Learning to tell the difference is...
Read MoreAccessibility Myths
March 12, 2024
A small project debunking common accessibility myths. Source: Accessibility Myths...
Read MoreAdd Superpowers to Your CSS Variables with Style Queries | That HTML Blog
March 12, 2024
We’re on the verge of yet another CSS revolution with the arrival of style queries. If you’ve ever thought: “Yeah, variables are cool and all, but it’s a bummer I can only use them to set ...
Read MoreThe Developer Dictionary | DevTerms
March 12, 2024
A crowdsourced dictionary for developers. Find definitions for all sorts of technical terms, programming jargon, and more! Source: The Developer Dictionary | DevTerms...
Read MoreWhat Is A Single-page Application?: HeydonWorks
March 11, 2024
That’s a spa, but what is a SPA? A SPA is a much less appealing and relaxing proposition. It is a type of web document named after the English expressions single-page application and sadness per Ang...
Read MoreTechniques to Break Words — Adrian Roselli
March 11, 2024
I made a page that allows you to play around with a few variations on breaking words. I use long single words in English, German, Hebrew (right-to-left), Hindi, Japanese, and Arabic (right-to-left). T...
Read MoreThe quiet, pervasive devaluation of frontend – Josh Collinsworth blog
March 11, 2024
I feel like I’m seeing a widespread diminishment of the practice of frontend. Nearly everywhere I look, I notice its importance minimized, and its challenges trivialized.This effect might be invisib...
Read MorePrioritising Accessibility for ABC Websites – ABC
March 8, 2024
As more people shift towards the internet for media consumption and as part of our digital-first plan, it has become more important that people with disabilities are able to access our content. Users...
Read MoreHandling files in enterprise web solutions – DEV Community
March 8, 2024
Correct file handling can be cumbersome without proper system integration and selection of which applications can handle what types of files.Web solutions have previously been disconnected from this b...
Read MoreSometimes, a Button Just Wants to Look Like a Button
March 8, 2024
How much was really lost in the great calamity that was iOS 7? For a UI designer like myself, quite a lot. I wandered around aimlessly for some time before finding my footing again. There was somethin...
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