Here’s a nifty post by Diana Mounter all about the design systems team at GitHub that details how the team was formed, the problems they’ve faced and how they’ve adapted along the way:When I started working at GitHub in late 2015, I noticed that there were many undocumented patterns, I had to write a lo...
There are lots of unicode symbols that make pretty good icons already, like arrows (←), marks (✘), and objects (✂︎).You can already colorize these like a normal font glyph. Then, there are emojis, those full-color suckers we all know about. What if you could take just the shape of an emoji and use it like ...
Mark this down as one of the strangest things I’ve seen in a good long while. Nicholas Jitkoff has made a tool called itty.bitty that creates websites with all of the assets being contained within their own link. You can create a website without any HTML or CSS resources at all because it’s all been base64 encoded ...
HelloSign API makes it simple to embed secure and legally binding eSignatures directly into any website. It’s 2x faster to implement than other eSign solutions and is also the only eSign API that allows customers to completely white label the integration, meaning our customers can give their customers a seamless,...
My take on trying to be helpful to a support staff. One bit is just as relevant for learning development:Writing out a ticket will help you figure out the problem. Sometimes when you have to take a second to collect your thoughts and explain something, the problem will become clear and maybe even the solution. Oftent...
One of the cool things about <svg> is that it’s literally its own document, so @media queries in CSS inside the SVG are based on its viewport rather than the HTML document that likely contains it. This unique feature has let people play around for years. Tim Kadlec experimented with SVG formats and which on...
(This is a sponsored post.) No sign up required to read the free e-book. Building modern apps (mobile, PWAs or Single Page Apps) that connect to legacy or enterprise systems is a pain. We put together an e-book that discusses the various options for how to make it all work. Here are some of the chapter contents:The C...
I was messing around with a variable font the other day and noticed this weird rendering issue in the latest version of Chrome where certain parts of letterforms were clipping into each other in a really weird way. Thankfully, though, Stephen Nixon has come to the rescue with a temporary hack to fix the issue which usi...
(This is a sponsored post.) This tutorial will show you how to add realtime comments to a Gatsby blog. You will use Node and Express to create a simple backend, allowing users to add and view comments instantly. Direct Link to Article — Permalink The post Add real-time comments to a Gatsby blog appeared first ...
Keith J. Grant:I want to look at three key characteristics of CSS that set it apart from conventional programming languages: it’s resilient; it’s declarative; and it’s contextual. Understanding these aspects of the language, I think, is key to becoming proficient in CSS.Like HTML, unknown or slightly broken ...
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