If you’re not entirely familiar with CORS, this guide by Lydia Hallie will explain it to you using lots of visuals. CS Visualized: CORS →
CORS Visualized
Responsible Web Applications
Good little collection of tips for creating responsible (= responsive + accessible) web applications by Joy Heron. With modern HTML and CSS, we can create responsive and accessible web apps with relative ease. In my years of doing software development, I have learned some HTML and CSS tips and tricks, and I want to present …
Design Principles For The Web
The opening presentation from An Event Apart Online Together: Front-End Focus held online in August 2020 It’s a typical Jeremy Keith talk with many things mentioned, all converging to what he described before in his blog post Robustness and least power (and also covered in other talks). Definitely worth your time. Hit the link for …
Unclack for macOS: Automatically mute your microphone while you type
Unclack is the small but mighty Mac utility that mutes your microphone while you type. No more getting called out for clacking your way through a Zoom meeting on your clicky keyboard! Heh, clever. Unclack for macOS → Related: I’m a happy user of Krisp, which uses AI to automatically filter out background noises (and …
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Ruffle — Flash Player Emulator built in Rust
With Adobe Flash now gone, there’s no way to play SWF files. For sites like The Web Archive this can be troublesome as many of the old Flash-built websites will no longer be viewable. Ruffle will help them out: Ruffle is a Flash Player emulator written in Rust. Ruffle runs natively on all modern operating …
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Guide to Advanced CSS Selectors
Two part series by Stephanie Eckles on CSS Selectors In this two-part mini-series, we’ll explore some of the more advanced CSS selectors, and examples of when to use them. Even if you’re doing frontend but not primarily writing CSS you should learn these, along with the basic CSS vocabulary. This knowledge will allow you read …
Running GitHub Actions for Certain Commit Messages
Ryan Chandler shares how to configure your GitHub Actions Workflow in such a way that they skip a build when a certain word appears in the commit message. jobs: format: runs-on: ubuntu-latest if: "! contains(github.event.head_commit.message, 'nobuild')" You can also flip it around, to only build whenever a specific word is present. Running GitHub Actions for …
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Snowpack v3.0
Version 3.0 of the aforementioned Snowpack got released, and it’s quite exciting I must say! Pre-bundled streaming imports – Import any npm package, on-demand. Integrated build optimizations – Built-in bundling, preloading, minification, and more. JavaScript API – Integrate with Snowpack’s brand new native JS API. Node.js Runtime API – Import your Snowpack-built files directly into …
The complete guide to CSS media queries
Last summer Kilian Valkhof did a wonderful write-up on the Polypane blog covering CSS Media Queries. Media queries are what make modern responsive design possible. With them you can set different styling based on things like a users screen size, device capabilities or user preferences. But how do they work, which ones are there and …
Alt vs Figcaption
This message by Elaina Natario writing over at Thoughtbot cannot be repeated enough: While both the alt attribute and the figcaption element provide a way to describe images, the way we write for them is different. alt descriptions should be functional; figcaption descriptions should be editorial or illustrative. Examples of both functional and editorial descriptions …