Interactive Rebase: Clean up your Commit History

This article is part of our “Advanced Git” series. Be sure to follow Tower on Twitter or sign up for their newsletter to hear about the next articles. Interactive Rebase is the Swiss Army knife of Git commands: lots of use cases and lots of possibilities! It’s really a great addition to any develop..

Semantic menu context

Scott digs into the history of the element. He traced it as far back as HTML 2 (!) in a 1994 changelog. The vibe then, it seems, was to mark up a list. I would suspect the intention is much like

Easy Dark Mode (and Multiple Color Themes!) in React

I was working on a large React application for a startup, and aside from just wanting some good strategies to keep our styles organized, I wanted to give this whole “dark mode” thing a shot. With the huge ecosystem around React, you might think that there would be a go-to solution for style themes, ..

Quickly Get Alerted to Front-End Errors and Performance Issues

(This is a sponsored post.) Measuring things is great. They say what you only fix what you measure. Raygun is great at measuring websites. Measuring performance, measuring errors and crashes, measuring code problems. You know what’s even better than measuring? Having a system in place to notify y..

Don’t Snore on CORS

Whatever, I just needed a title. Everyone’s favorite web security feature has crossed my desk a bunch of times lately and I always feel like that is a sign I should write something because that’s what blogging is. The main problem with CORS is that developers don’t understand CORS. The basic conce..

Quick and Dirty Bootstrap Overrides at Runtime

Oh, Bootstrap, that old standard web library that either you hate or you spend all your time defending as “it’s fine, it’s not that bad.” Regardless of what side you fall on, it’s a powerful UI framework that’s everywhere, most people know the basics of it, and it gives you extremely predictable res..

cleanup.pictures

Nice domain, eh? Does just what it says on the tin: cleans up pictures. You draw over areas of the image you want cleaned up, and it does its best using weird science. It’s like Photoshop’s Spot Healing Brush, only a single-use free website. Much like the amazing remove.bg which is an equally amazin..

Detecting Specific Text Input with HTML and CSS

Louis Lazaris breaks down some bonafide CSS trickery from Jane. The Pen shows off interactivity where: You have to press a special combination of keys on a keyboard.Then type a secret password. From there, a special message pops up on the screen. Easily JavaScript territory, but no, this is done h..

VideoPress for WordPress

(This is a sponsored post.) The leade here is that VideoPress makes video on WordPress way better. VideoPress is a part of Jetpack. And now, if VideoPress is the only thing you care about from the Jetpack world, you can pay for it à la carte as low as $4.77/month. Or, get it included in the Jetpack..

React Suspense: Lessons Learned While Loading Data

Suspense is React’s forthcoming feature that helps coordinate asynchronous actions—like data loading—allowing you to easily prevent inconsistent state in your UI. I’ll provide a better explanation of what exactly that means, along with a quick introduction of Suspense, and then go over a somewhat re..