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How would you build Wordle with just HTML & CSS? | Scott Jehl, Web Designer/Developer
April 9, 2024
I’ve been thinking about the questions folks are typically asked in front-end interviews these days, and how well those questions assess a candidate’s depth of understanding of web standard te...
Read MoreLearning from you about AI | Blog | web.dev
April 9, 2024
Over the last few months, we’ve spoken with web practitioners to understand the landscape and how you think about AI. Of course, we can’t talk to everyone about everything. We had just a s...
Read MoreDesign Engineering at Vercel: What we do and how we do it – Vercel
April 8, 2024
Design Engineer is a new role that is gaining popularity—a role that is both confusing and exciting. Expectations for what good software looks and feels like have never been higher. Design Engineers...
Read MoreAI & the Web: Understanding and managing the impact of Machine Learning models on the Web
April 8, 2024
This document proposes an analysis of the systemic impact of AI systems, and in particular ones based on Machine Learning models, on the Web, and the role that Web standardization may play in managing...
Read MoreWhat even is a JSON Number?
April 8, 2024
Not a question people generally ponder, and seems fairly straightforward. It’s a number, obviously! But the question turns out to be somewhat hard to answer, and for API designers especially, th...
Read Morexz, Tidelift, and paying the maintainers
April 5, 2024
Late last week, a developer noticed some unusual behavior on their computer, investigated it, and uncovered a hack of epic scope, in an obscure but important library called xz. The attack was technica...
Read MoreRobin Rendle — How to Kill the Cascade
April 5, 2024
I love the tag and I love CSS. I still think the way that styles cascade and can’t error out is ingeniously resilient. But, in this blogger’s opinion, the cascade has always had this glaring, terr...
Read MoreThe View Transitions API – Frontend Masters Boost
April 5, 2024
Transitioning UI between states has been something that developers have been doing for ages, and yes, you can use things like the Web Animation API as well as CSS transitions and animations for that. ...
Read MoreElizabeth Goodspeed on the importance of taste – and how to acquire it
April 5, 2024
As templates, tutorials and tools become ubiquitous, technical skills are more accessible than ever. It’s no longer enough to be able to simply draw or design. Now, our US editor-at-large argues, yo...
Read MoreCSS Classes considered harmful – Keith Cirkel
April 5, 2024
If you’ve ever so much as peeked behind the curtain of Web user interfaces before, you’ll know what the class property is for. It’s for connecting HTML to CSS, right? I’m here ...
Read MoreText Effects
April 4, 2024
A collection of fun experiments, effects, examples and tips on how to create text effects using CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. Source: Text Effects...
Read MoreAn Interactive Guide to CSS Container Queries
April 4, 2024
Ah, container queries – a topic I explored three years ago. It’s truly satisfying to revisit it once more, this time with a deeper and more comprehensive approach.In this interactive guide to ...
Read MoreThe Blessing of the Strings
April 4, 2024
Trusted Types have been a proposal by Google for quite some time at this point, but it’s currently getting a lot of attention and work in all browsers (Igalia is working on implementations in We...
Read MoreA 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...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreFrontend 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...
Read More(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...
Read MoreHow 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...
Read MoreWhat 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 ...
Read MoreSpreadsheets 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...
Read MoreAccessible 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...
Read Morea 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...
Read MoreWhen 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...
Read MoreOn 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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