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Computer Science Unleashed, Chapter 1: Connections
This article is actually an excerpt from Wladston Ferreira Filho‘s new book Computer Science Unleashed. This book is about all the groundbreaking technologies behind the World Wide Web. We might even take them for granted these days, but there are important and learnable technologies behind how it a..
10 Free Design Agency Web Templates for Photoshop
If you’re working on a website redesign for your creative agency, it pays off to have a few design resources stored on your computer that will help you speed up the design process. This includes web templates for Photoshop that you can use when you need inspiration.
In this roundup, we’ve gathered ..
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The Story Behind TryShape, a Showcase for the CSS clip-path property – A look at how you can leverage CSS to make all manner of custom shapes.
Projectile – A GUI-based app to help you manage your JavaScript projects.
20 Free Payment Method & Credit Card Icon Sets – Add a touch of style to your eCo..
Shadow Roots and Inheritance
There is a helluva gotcha with styling a
element, as documented here by Kitty Guiraudel. It’s obscure enough that you might never run into it, but if you do, I could see it being very confusing (it would confuse me, at least).
Perhaps you’re aware of the shadow DOM? It’s talked about a lo..
How to Use Quizzes More Effectively in Interactive Content
Content is the king of the digital world. This is an undisputed fact among marketers and business owners alike.
However, not all content is created equal. Interactive content is a more immersive form of marketing specifically intended for the digital age. Great for companies that need to develop de..
Minding the “gap”
You might already know about the CSS gap property. It isn’t exactly new, but it did gain an important new ability last year: it now works in Flexbox in addition to CSS Grid. That, and the fact that I believe the property is more complicated than it appears, made me want to go back and explain exactl..
Static Site Generators vs. CMS-powered Websites: How to Keep Marketers and Devs Happy
(This is a sponsored post.)
Many developers love working with static site generators like Gatsby and Hugo. These powerful yet flexible systems help create beautiful websites using familiar tools like Markdown and React. Nearly every popular modern programming language has at least one actively deve..
Clients Make Too Many UX Decisions. Here’s How to Stop Them.
The boundaries between a web designer and their client can often become blurred. Designers, in an effort to please paying customers, put client feedback into action – even if it leads the project in the wrong direction.
A client may be pleased with themselves and happy to get their own way. But at ..
2021 Scroll Survey Report
Here’s a common thought and question: how do browsers prioritize what they work on? We get little glimpses of it sometimes. We’re told to “star issues” in bug trackers to signal interest. We’re told to get involved in GitHub threads for spec issues. We’re told they do read the blog posts. And, somet..
kbar
It’s not every day that a new pattern emerges across the web, but I think cmd + k is here to stay. It’s a keyboard shortcut that usually pops open a search UI and it lets you toggle settings on or off, such as dark mode. And lots of apps support it now—Slack, Notion, Linear, and Sentry (my current g..
