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I make no secret of my love for the web design community. There’s something both unique and beautiful about sharing code, assets, and advice. But, just as a community can lift you up, certain dark corners of it can put you down. Intentional or not, some commentary can bring about a number of negati..

Container queries are going to solve this long-standing issue in web design where we want to make design choices based on the size of an element (the container) rather than the size of the entire page. So, if a container is 600px wide, perhaps it has a row-like design, but any narrower than that it ..

When I came up in web development (2005-2010 were formative years for me), one of the first lessons I learned was to have a clean foundation of HTML. “What Beautiful HTML Code Looks Like” is actually one of the most popular posts on this very site. The image in that post made its way to popular page..

Not so long ago, customers only had a couple of ways to interact with brands. If you had an issue with a product or service, you could reach out through the customer service phone number or send an email. Occasionally, sites would introduce dedicated forms on their website that allowed consumers t..

Logging, on its own, is a key aspect of any application. Logging helps developers comprehend what it is that their code is doing. It also helps save developers hours of debugging work. This tutorial is about implementing logging in a Node.js application using Pino-logger. With logging, you can stor..

Millions of us around the world eat at restaurants every day with our family, friends, co-workers, clients, parole officers… just kidding. Restaurants serve an important purpose in our lives – a purpose that has less to do with food and more to do with the way we connect with one another. The resta..

CSS is on a tear lately. Again, I’ve heard of a brand new thing I’ve never seen before, and again it’s via Miriam: CSS Conditionals. 🎉 CSSWG just resolved to adopt @tabatkins when/else proposal into the next level of CSS Conditionals. Here's the proposal:https://t.co/IXEOK7xKcL — Miriam (But ..

There is a new thing coming in CSS: @layer. As with all new things, it takes time to really wrap your head around it. And despite me tapping at my keyboard about it, full disclosure, I’m not sure my mind is fully there yet. Fortunately, smart people are on the case! This comes from Miriam Suzanne, ..

CSS ::before and ::after pseudo-elements allow you to insert “content” before and after any non-replaced element (e.g. they work on a