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Like it or not, meetings are essential to a good working environment and communication. Therefore, it’s crucial that we work on making them as productive as possible. Today we’ll explore myriad ways to keep meetings coordinated, well documented, and talk about how to recognize and steer away from an..

This is a super niche blog post. But it’s been on my list forever to write down because this caused me grief for far too long. The setup is that you can use WooCommerce to sell things on a WordPress site, of course. If what you’re selling is a physical product, one thing you can do is set that up a..

The marketing for Core Web Vitals (CWV) has been a massive success. I guess that’s what happens when the world’s dominant search engine tells people that something’s going to be an SEO factor. Ya know what language can play a huge role in those CWV scores? I’ll wait five minutes for you to think of ..

This is new stuff from DO. App Platform is a hosting product, no surprise there, but it has some features that are Jamstack-inspired in the best possible way, and an additional set of unique and powerful features. Let’s start with some basics: Static sites can be hosted on the free tierAutomatic H..

If you’re anything like me, you like being lazy shortcuts. The “Deploy to Netlify” button allows me to take this lovely feature of my personality and be productive with it. Clicking the button above lets me (or you!) instantly clone my Next.js starter project and automatically deploy it to Netlify...

I got this exact question in an email the other day, and I thought it would make a nice blog post because of how wonderfully satisfying this is to do in CSS these days. Plus we can sprinkle in polish to it as we go. HTML-wise, I’m thinking image, text, image, text, etc. <img src="..." alt="..." he..

The click event is quite simple and easy to use; you listen for the event and run code when the event is fired. It works on just about every HTML element there is, a core feature of the DOM API. As often the case with the DOM and JavaScript, there are nuances to consider. Some nuances with the clic..

I was working on a bug ticket the other day where it was reported that an icon was sitting low in a button. Just not aligned like it should be. I had to go on a little journey to figure out how to replicate it before I could fix it. Lemme set the scene. Here’s the screenshot: See how the icon is j..

I use this line, or one like it, in a lot of quick demos. Not that it’s not a production-worthy line of code—I just tend to be a bit more explicit on bigger projects. html { font: 110%/1.4 system-ui; } Someone wrote in confused by it, and I could see how a line like that is a bit bewildering at ..

Delan Azabani digs into the (hopefully) coming soon ::spelling-error and ::grammar-error pseudo selectors in CSS. Design control is always nice. Hey, if we can style scrollbars and style selected text, why not this? The squiggly lines that indicate possible spelling or grammar errors have been a st..