A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
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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Lea Verou shows a method to implement dark mode, not by swapping entire colors, but by simply changing their lightness The basic idea is to use custom properties for the lightness of colors instead of the entire color. Then, in dark mode, you override these variables with 100% – lightness. This generally produces light colors …
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Great post by Hidde, warning about blindly trusting accessibility claims. Not all ‘accessible components’ are created equal, some will work a lot better for our end users than other. In this post I have listed a number of things you can look at if you are considering third-party components. I especially like this part: Sometimes, …
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If you watch Fireflies closely, some species will sync up their flashing to eventually blink as a group. Pretty mesmerizing stuff. But how to they do it? So, how do thousands of fireflies pick a leader to follow, a maestro to keep their flashing in time? The answer, the scientists found, is simple: They don’t. …
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. — Martin Fowler
