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How I Built a Cross-Platform Desktop Application with Svelte, Redis, and Rust
At Cloudflare, we have a great product called Workers KV which is a key-value storage layer that replicates globally. It can handle millions of keys, each of which is accessible from within a Worker script at exceptionally low latencies, no matter where in the world a request is received. Workers KV..
Slinkity
Perhaps the #1 reason I love Astro is that it brings the JavaScript component authoring experience to the Static Site Generator world with zero JavaScript (except bits you very specifically opt-in to). That HTML-first approach is also why I like Eleventy. It’s just that, as awesome as Eleventy is, I..
Will Full Site Editing Help WordPress Themes Finally Reach Their Potential?
Marketing buzz has never been a true reflection of reality. No, the “right” drink won’t make you more desirable. A new car won’t bring your family a higher level of togetherness. And a WordPress theme can’t possibly fulfill every single need.
The myth of that last one has persisted throughout the y..
Popular Design News of the Week: July 19 2021 – July 25, 2021
Every day design fans submit incredible industry stories to our sister-site, Webdesigner News. Our colleagues sift through it, selecting the very best stories from the design, UX, tech, and development worlds and posting them live on the site.
The best way to keep up with the most important stories..
Web Features That May Not Work As You’d Expect
As the web gets more and more capable, developers are able to make richer online experiences. There are times, however, where some new web capabilities may not work as you would expect in the interest of usability, security and privacy.
I have run into situations like this. Like lazy loading in HTM..
My petite-vue review
Dave:
petite-vue is a new cut of the Vue project specifically built with progressive enhancement in mind. At 5kb, petite-vue is a lightweight Alpine (or jQuery) alternative that can be “sprinkled” over your project requiring no extra bundling steps or build processes. Add a tag, set a v-sc..
Weekly News for Designers № 602
Pattern Collect – Browse this curated gallery of patterns from around the web.
Designing for the Unexpected – Thoughts on designing for situations and devices you didn’t anticipate.
GradientArt – Give this feature-packed, web-based CSS gradient editor a try.
The Current State of Homepage UX – 8 C..
Organize your CSS declarations alphabetically
Eric, again not mincin’ no words with blog post titles. This is me:
The most common CSS declaration organization technique I come across is none whatsoever.
Almost none, anyway. I tend to group them by whatever dumps out of my brain as I’m writing them, which usually ends up with somewhat logical ..
Making Your Mark: 6 Tips for Infusing Brand Essence into Your Website
What makes a company special? There are hundreds of organizations out there selling fast food, but only one McDonalds. You’ve probably stumbled across dozens of technology companies too, but none of them inspire the same kind of loyalty and commitment as Apple. So why do people fall in love with som..
Using Google Drive as a CMS
We’re going to walk through the technical process of hooking into Google Drive’s API to source content on a website. We’ll examine the step-by-step implementation, as well as how to utilize server-side caching to avoid the major pitfalls to avoid such as API usage limits and image hotlinking. A read..