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Do you know what to use the @ sign for something other than email addresses and Twitter handles? I do! — Pawel Grzybek notes how some old physical typewriters had an “Arroba” on them which was represented with the @ sign.Atkinson Hyperlegible Font — The Braille Institute is giving away this font tha..

No matter what stage you’re at as a developer, the tasks we complete—whether big or small—make a huge impact in our personal and professional growth. Unfortunately, those tasks aren’t always recognized because they can easily get lost in the sea of other things that need to get done. The unnoticed ..

Virtually every software application evolves over time. For users, keeping track of the additions, subtractions, and bug fixes can be difficult. And, the more users an app has, the more challenging it is for developers to keep everyone in the know. WordPress faces a unique uphill climb in this area..

I didn’t realize the support for @supports determining selector support was so good! I usually think of @supports as a way to test for property: value pair support. But with the selector() function, we can test for selector support as well. It looks like this: @supports selector(:nth-child(1 of .fo..

Hey folks! Elad reached out to me to show me his new CSS reset project called the-new-css-reset. It’s quite interesting! I thought a neat way to share it with you is not only to point you toward it, but to ask Elad some questions about it for your reading pleasure. Here’s the entire code for the re..

(Note: Unfortunately, e-mail and RSS don’t support advanced layouts and features. If the graphics in this article look strange, you may want to read the article in your web browser.) Key Takeaways The length of checkout in steps has less of an impact on overall checkout performance compared to the total number of form fields users must contend with The average checkout flow today is 5.2 steps long and has 11.8 form fields But getting down to 8 total form fields is possible for many sites In this article we’ll optimize a 16-field checkout to become just 8 fields long. In our latest checkout usability study we’ve found that the average checkout contains 11.8 form fields. Yet our checkout usability testing also reveals that most sites can achieve a 20–60% reduction in the number of form fields displayed by default. In this article we’ll therefore show you how a checkout flow can be optimized to just 8 form fields. At the same time, we’ve documented that 18% of users have abandon..

When you run a WordPress website, you will inevitably have to perform essential maintenance that may result in temporary downtime. This could be testing new plugins, theme changes or updates, or some major server issues. Many developers create offline sandboxes for testing, but once you push the up..

This isn’t supposed to be any sort of decision-making based on browser User-Agent Strings. But, ya know, collectively, we do make those decisions. Karl Dubost notes that there is a significant change coming to them, notably moving the version integer past two digits: According to the Firefox relea..

I believe that a traditional WordPress theme should be able to work as effectively as a static site or a headless web app. The overwhelming majority of WordPress websites are built with a good ol’ fashioned WordPress theme. Most of them even have good caching layers, and dependency optimizations tha..

The web industry is beset by competing ideals and goals so that the simplicity of numbers makes sense to us: one is more than zero, two is more than one. When it comes to any metric, there is an understandable temptation to focus on volume. In some cases, absolute metrics make more sense than other..