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A TC39 Proposal for Signals. A v0 draft of the signals proposal… | by EisenbergEffect | Apr, 2024 | Medium

April 3, 2024

What are signals?A signal is a data type that enables one-way data flow by modeling cells of state and computations derived from other state/computations. The state and computations form an acyclic gr...

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The Power of :has() in CSS | CSS-Tricks – CSS-Tricks

April 3, 2024

Hey all you wonderful developers out there! In this post we are going to explore the use of :has() in your next web project. :has() is relatively newish but has gained popularity in the front end comm...

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Frontend Developers: the Newest New Kingmakers

April 2, 2024

In recent years the frontend has undergone a renaissance. Frontend developers—individuals that have traditionally focused on writing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code, but increasingly work on everythi...

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(5699) Node.js: The Documentary | An origin story – YouTube

April 2, 2024

Back in 2008, most people thought of JavaScript as just a client-side language. But when Google’s V8 appeared, young developer Ryan Dahl made the connection between non-blocking servers, V8, and...

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How To Use The Web Bluetooth API · confidence.sh

April 2, 2024

In this article, I’ll show you how to build using the Web Bluetooth API to interact with Bluetooth peripherals. We’ll specifically build together an app powered by Web Bluetooth to display stats f...

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What You Need to Know about Modern CSS (Spring 2024 Edition) – Frontend Masters Boost

March 27, 2024

My goal with this bookmarkable guide is to provide a list of (frankly: incredible) new additions to CSS lately. There is no hardline criteria for this list other than that these things are all fairly ...

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Spreadsheets are all you need.ai – A low-code way to learn AI

March 26, 2024

Spreadsheets-are-all-you-need is a low-code introduction to the details behind today’s Large Language Models (LLMs) that’s ideal for:Technical executives, marketers, and product managersDevelopers...

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Accessible Forms with Pseudo Classes | CSS-Tricks – CSS-Tricks

March 26, 2024

In this post, I am going to take you through creating a simple contact form using semantic HTML and an awesome CSS pseudo class known as :focus-within. The :focus-within class allows for great control...

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a view source web

March 26, 2024

In the end, view source is a reminder that software is a human activity with all its nuance, and mundanity, laid bare waiting to be viewed in our browsers. View source is a slow space, a gesture to se...

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When to Nest CSS – Cloud Four

March 25, 2024

With the recent news that CSS nesting is now available in the major evergreen browsers, our team was discussing how it differs from nesting in Sass, and the question came up — When should you use n...

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On popover accessibility: what the browser does and doesn’t do | hidde.blog

March 25, 2024

One of the premises of the new popover attribute is that it comes with general accessibility considerations “built in”. What does “built in accessibility” actually mean for browsers that suppo...

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The box model and box sizing – Piccalilli

March 22, 2024

To open up this CSS Fundamentals series, we’re looking at one of those most important aspects of CSS to understand: how the box model is affected by box sizing.If there’s ever one really important...

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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...

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Navigating 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 ...

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Marking 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...

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On 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...

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Design 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...

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A 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...

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Supercharge 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...

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A 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...

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JavaScript 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’...

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Hello 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...

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Interaction 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...

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CSS 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...

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