Little Stuff about Markdown I Always Forget and have to Google
News about some upcoming conferences, like Clarity, CodeLand, a Grid Workshop,
Maker Series, and upcoming An Event Apart shows.
Plugins Loaded
The final demo comes as a project you can explore. And don’t miss our recent roundup of some of the best Web Audio API Pens ever on CodePen. … Read article “Recreating Legendary 8-bit Games Music with the Web Audio API”
Systems Smart Enough To Know When They’re Not Smart Enough
Let’s say you’re making a blog post layout. Content is entered into a CMS inside a WYSIWYG editor field. You echo that content to the page. You pull it up on a mobile device and notice the paragraphs go edge-to-edge. Yikes, it’s a little uncomfortable. So you add some kind of left/right padding maybe using a div.container.
Weapons of Math Destruction
I think you’d do well to read Cathy O’Neils Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy. I saw her read at the Miami Book Fair several months ago and immediately bought a copy. I even got her to sign it which is kinda cool 😉
An Animated Intro to RxJS
In Part 1 of this series, I provided some background on responsive images, describing how you can add srcset and sizes attributes to an img element to serve appropriately sized image files to users of a website based on the size and capabilities of their browser and device. I also shared how WordPress used its native image resizing functionality to implement srcset and sizes automatically and how you can use an external image service like Cloudinary to extend the native … Read article “Responsive Images in WordPress with Cloudinary, Part 2”
We built a PWA from scratch – This is what we learned
I also found the overview of the discussion of bytecode interesting. Browsers download JavaScript, parse it, turn … Read article “JavaScript Start-Up Performance”
Implementing “Save For Offline” with Service Workers
This is the second part in a five-part series about the JavaScript framework, Vue.js. In this part, we’ll go over Components, Props, and Slots. This is not intended to be a complete guide, but rather an overview of the basics to get you up and running so you can get to know Vue.js and understand what the framework has to offer.… Read article “Intro to Vue.js: Components, Props, and Slots”
Video Transcripts
Emmet is great for that. With it installed in the code editor you are using, you can type “lorem” and then tab and it will expand into a paragraph of Lorem Ipsum placeholder text. But it can do more! You can control how much you get, place it within HTML structure as it expands, and get different bits of it in repeated elements.… Read article “Need Lorem Ipsum? Inside HTML?”
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Now forevermore, the spell checker won’t catch that misspelled word. Fear not, you can fix it.… Read article “Clearing Accidentally “Learned” Words from macOS Dictionary”
Introducing the Payment Request API
“Tate-Yoko Web Award” is an award given to those who are willing to challenge the web typography of the next generation by designing and utilizing new typesetting standards in the latest CSS codings.