The Double Emphasis Thing
December 27, 2023
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I used to have this boss who loved, loved, loved, loved to emphasize words. This was way back before we used a WYSIWYG editors and I’d have to handcode that
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Moving Backgrounds
December 27, 2023
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We often think of background images as texture or something that provides contrast for legible content — in other words, not really content. If it was content, you’d probably reach
Healthcare, Selling Lemons, and the Price of Developer Experience
December 27, 2023
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Every now and then, a one blog post is published and it spurs a reaction or response in others that are, in turn, published as blogs posts, and a theme
An Approach to Lazy Loading Custom Elements
December 27, 2023
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We’re fans of Custom Elements around here. Their design makes them particularly amenable to lazy loading, which can be a boon for performance. Inspired by a colleague’s experiments, I recently
Caching Data in SvelteKit
November 28, 2023
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My previous post was a broad overview of SvelteKit where we saw what a great tool it is for web development. This post will fork off what we did there
Different Ways to Get CSS Gradient Shadows
November 28, 2023
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It’s a question I hear asked quite often: Is it possible to create shadows from gradients instead of solid colors? There is no specific CSS property that does this (believe
A Fancy Hover Effect For Your Avatar
November 28, 2023
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Do you know that kind of effect where someone’s head is poking through a circle or hole? The famous Porky Pig animation where he waves goodbye while popping out of
Creating a Clock with the New CSS sin() and cos() Trigonometry Functions
November 28, 2023
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CSS trigonometry functions are here! Well, they are if you’re using the latest versions of Firefox and Safari, that is. Having this sort of mathematical power in CSS opens up
Managing Fonts in WordPress Block Themes
November 28, 2023
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Fonts are a defining characteristic of the design of any site. That includes WordPress themes, where it’s common for theme developers to integrate a service like Google Fonts into the
Everything You Need to Know About the Gap After the List Marker
November 28, 2023
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I was reading “Creative List Styling” on Google’s web.dev blog and noticed something odd in one of the code examples in the ::marker section of the article. The built-in list