A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
google-webfonts-helper — A Hassle-Free Way to Self-Host Google Fonts
To self-host Webfonts from Google Fonts — which you should — there’s google-webfonts-helper which you can use. They offer the entire Google Fonts catalog and provide a way to easily download the fonts and accompanying CSS snippets you need. google-webfonts-helper → Via Sebastian
Good slidedeck by Benno Lœwenberg: We all are only sometimes abled. Therefore accessible solutions benefit everybody. Treating accessibility not just as an afterthought to comply with regulations, but as an essential UX factor right from the start can lead to building better products and services. This talk is about how to lay an accessible foundation …
I like these little masterpieces by Marco Sodano. Pixel-art using LEGO, if you like 🙂 Self-Portrait, Vincent Van Gogh (1889) Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1503–1506) Girl with a Pearl Earring, Johannes Vermeer (c. 1665) More artworks in the links. LEGO – MASTERS (Set 1) →LEGO – MASTERS (Set 2) →
Anyone who has worked with dates and time in JavaScript knows how broken the built-in Date is. In the near future we’ll be able to use Temporal instead, an ECMAScript feature currently at Stage-3 Nathan Sebhastian has a good overview on how it compares to Date, along with some practical examples. The new Temporal API …
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Instead of resorting to faux underlines using injected content, Michelle Barker shares that we nowadays can animate the text-decoration-* properties to achieve similar (and better) results. This approach however won’t work in Chromium, as only Firefox/Safari support animating text-underline-offset at the moment … but thankfully a tiny amount of CSS Houdini Magic can be sprinkled …
Continue reading “Container Queries are Actually Coming / Say Hello To CSS Container Queries”
Over at CSS-Tricks Hugh Haworth has done a nice write-up on the next generation of build tools that have been popping up. A bunch of new developer tools have landed in the past year and they are biting at the heels of the tools that have dominated front-end development over the last few years, including …
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