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JSR Is Not Another Package Manager
May 1, 2024
Over the past years, new package managers like yarn and pnpm have emerged, enhancing how packages are downloaded. However, the npm package registry, a cornerstone of the JavaScript ecosystem, has bare...
Read MoreOpinion | How Should I Be Using A.I. Right Now? – The New York Times
May 1, 2024
There’s something of a paradox that has defined my experience with artificial intelligence in this particular moment. It’s clear we’re witnessing the advent of a wildly powerful technology, one ...
Read MoreHTML attributes vs DOM properties – JakeArchibald.com
May 1, 2024
Attributes and properties are fundamentally different things. You can have an attribute and property of the same name set to different values Source: HTML attributes vs DOM properties – JakeArch...
Read MoreLatency numbers every frontend developer should know – Vercel
April 30, 2024
Web page load times and responsiveness to user action in web apps is a primary driver of user satisfaction–and both are often dominated by network latency. Latency itself is a function of the user&#...
Read MoremusicForProgramming();
April 30, 2024
Through years of trial and error — skipping around radio streams, playing entire collections on shuffle, or repeating certain tracks over and over — we have found that the most compelling music fo...
Read MoreDemystifying the Shadow DOM – by Petar Ivanov
April 29, 2024
Last year I taught Advanced JavaScript classes at the local university. One of the topics I explained was about the Shadow DOM. Since I wasn’t very familiar with it, I had to dig deeper and understa...
Read MoreInvoking elements by using only HTML: A first look at invokers | utilitybend
April 29, 2024
Wouldn’t it be cool if we could click on a button to open a modal with just HTML? How about those file input elements? Imagine that creating a custom play button for video controls would be an easy ...
Read MoreThe Anatomy of a Component Sprint | Figma Blog
April 26, 2024
The Washington Post’s inclusive process for creating new design system components bridges the gap between design and development to make features that help navigate the news online. At The Washingt...
Read MoreProduct Design Is Lost / Design Systems International
April 26, 2024
How the field of product design lost its way — and how it can find its way back The ongoing tech layoffs have decimated UX and UI positions to such a degree that some have wondered whether the tec...
Read MoreNo Web Without Women
April 26, 2024
WEB WITHOUT WOMEN A collection of innovations by women in the fields of computer science and technology. Source: No Web Without Women...
Read MoreLooking for AI use-cases — Benedict Evans
April 26, 2024
We’ve had ChatGPT for 18 months, but what’s it for? What are the use-cases? Why isn’t it useful for everyone, right now? Do Large Language Models become universal tools that can do ‘any’ tas...
Read MoreUpgrading jQuery: Working Towards a Healthy Web | Official jQuery Blog
April 24, 2024
With the rise of modern JavaScript frameworks, fewer developers may be choosing to use jQuery for new projects, but worldwide usage is still extremely high. After analyzing the results of a survey con...
Read MoreConsiderations for AI Opt-Out
April 24, 2024
Creating a Large Language Model (LLM) requires a lot of data – as implied by the name, LLMs need voluminous input data to be able to function well. Much of that content comes from the Internet, and ...
Read MoreWe Need To Rewild The Internet
April 23, 2024
Our online spaces are not ecosystems, though tech firms love that word. They’re plantations; highly concentrated and controlled environments, closer kin to the industrial farming of the cattle feedl...
Read MoreHow web bloat impacts users with slow devices
April 22, 2024
In 2017, we looked at how web bloat affects users with slow connections. Even in the U.S., many users didn’t have broadband speeds, making much of the web difficult to use. It’s still the ...
Read MoreAI isn’t useless. But is it worth it?
April 22, 2024
But there is a yawning gap between “AI tools can be handy for some things” and the kinds of stories AI companies are telling (and the media is uncritically reprinting). And when it comes t...
Read MoreWhat’s Going On in Dark Theme / Light Theme Land – Frontend Masters Boost
April 19, 2024
There has been a fresh round of enthusiasm and writing around light mode / dark mode support for the web lately. I think it’s driven partially by the new light-dark() function in CSS (CSS Color Modu...
Read MoreA primer on the cascade and specificity – Piccalilli
April 19, 2024
Often feared by developers, the cascade and specificity is actually really simple if you utilise the right mental model when authoring CSS. Source: A primer on the cascade and specificity – Picc...
Read MoreComing Soon to JavaScript Near You? (TC39 Stage 2 Proposals) | That HTML Blog
April 19, 2024
It’ll definitely be a while before we see some of these getting prototyped in browsers, but it’s always fun to take a sneak peak at the future of this vital web language. Source: Coming Soon to Ja...
Read MoreInterview with a Senior JS Developer 2024
April 19, 2024
The satirical interview series from Programmers are also human is always worth a watch, with a genuine understanding of the technology, and obsessions and rituals and beliefs of various types of devel...
Read MoreThings That Can Break aspect-ratio in CSS – Frontend Masters Boost
April 18, 2024
CSS has an aspect-ratio property, which has had full support since around 2021. It can be a very satisfying property to use, because it can help match how your brain 🧠 works or what the desired des...
Read MoreTea Uglow: Inclusion in tech and beyond | SBS Audio
April 17, 2024
Tea Uglow is an influential voice in the tech world. A pioneering force behind Google’s Creative Lab where she led experimental tech projects for 17 years, Tea Uglow’s brilliance extends b...
Read MoreWhy Good Captioned Videos Are Important – Meryl.net home
April 16, 2024
With the growing number of tools for captioning videos making do-it-yourself captions possible, so is the growing number of captioned videos with crappy captions. Sometimes people don’t realize the ...
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