On A List Apart you can read an excerpt from the book Resilient Management by Lara Hogan. It’s from chapter 2, entitled “Grow your teammates”: To spur this course-correction and growth in your teammates, you’ll end up wearing four different hats: Mentoring: lending advice and helping to problem solve based on your own experience. Coaching: […]
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Indicating focus to improve accessibility
Great article by Hidde. It totally rhymes with my Building Better Forms™ by not taking away affordances post. It’s a common, but fairly easy-to-fix accessibility issue: lack of indicating focus. In this post I will explain what we mean by focus and show you how focus outlines make your site easier to use. Indicating focus […]
An introduction to the JAMstack
This introduction to JAMstack – or is it SHAMstack? – is quite complete: Traditional websites or CMS sites (e.g WordPress, Drupal, etc.) rely heavily on servers, plugins and databases. But the JAMstack can load some JavaScript that receives data from an API, serving files from a CDN and markup generated using a static site generator […]
Accessible Icon Buttons
Sara Soueidan: An icon button is an icon that triggers some sort of action on the page. More accurately, technically speaking, an icon button is a button that contains an icon and no (visible) accompanying text. Putting aside the UX side of the coin and whether or not an icon alone is enough to convey […]
Creating Pixel Art with CSS
Using box-shadow, it’s possible to create a pixels on screen: See the Pen Pixel Art 3: Side-by-Side Box-Shadow by Jacque (@jschrag) on CodePen. As you can define multiple box-shadow entries – comma-separated – it’s possible to draw multiple pixels on screen … Creating Pixel Art with CSS →
Internal classes in PHP
As a (PHP) package developer, you sometimes have classes that are meant for internal use – inside the package itself – only. PHP has no built-in solution for this, but using a DocBlock Tag one can indicate its intended use. As Nuno Maduro explains: Maybe in the future, the PHP language will have the internal […]
Tests and types
Brent has some thoughts on strong and weakly typed programming languages. Starting point: a simple function that needs testing: rgbToHex(red, green, blue) { // … } Testing the result the function should return is easy. But what about edge cases? What happens though if we pass doubles instead of integers? Or numbers outside of the […]
The new Mac Pro is a design remix
Arun Venkatesan takes a deep dive into the design and engineering behind the new Mac Pro: Apple held its annual developer conference, WWDC, this week in San Jose. In the keynote, aside from a slew of developer-focused software announcements, one new hardware announcement has attracted the most attention, the 2019 Mac Pro and Pro Display […]
Pika CDN – A CDN for modern JavaScript
Yesterday the aforementioned Pika announced some new things. One of the things that stood out is Pika CDN: The Pika CDN was built to serve the 60,000+ npm packages written in ES Module (ESM) syntax. This module syntax runs natively in the browser, so you can build for the web without a bundler. With our […]
Self-Host Your Static Assets
Harry Roberts: One of the quickest wins—and one of the first things I recommend my clients do—to make websites faster can at first seem counter-intuitive: you should self-host all of your static assets, forgoing others’ CDNs/infrastructure. In this short and hopefully very straightforward post, I want to outline the disadvantages of hosting your static assets […]