David Gambacorta | Longreads | March 2021 | 15 minutes (4,190 words) They needed a song, but not just any song. It had to be a throat-clearing, lapel-grabbing, hey-what’s-that-sound number that could

Variants are an excellent way to express how a component could look. It allows us to separate our design concerns into isolated rules.

Confession Time: I don’t care about the Core Web Vitals (CWV) update. For those who don’t know but still read my blog (hi, mom), here’s the quick rundown. “Core Web Vitals” is the name of three “core”

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In my previous post , I wrote about system fonts and their advantages over web fonts. I encouraged a ‘system fonts first’ approach, arguing that, compared to system fonts, web fonts (a) can negatively

I knew I was the only poor person at my tech startup because nobody else ate the Hot Cheetos that were stocked in our free snack kitchen.

Apr 23, 2021 A Guide To Newly Supported, Modern CSS Pseudo-Class Selectors About The Author Stephanie Eckles is a front-end focused software engineer. She’s the author of ModernCSS.dev which provides

A core theme of the seminal introduction to responsive web design was an acceptance of the 'ebb and flow' found on our inherently fluid web. But despite a broadly accepted view that device-based break

A custom property is most commonly thought of as a variable in CSS. .card { --spacing: 1.2rem; padding: var(--spacing); margin-bottom: var(--spacing);} Above, --spacing is the custom property with 1.2

Dear readers, it is with troublesome news I break my three months of silence. The statistics all point towards the same conclusion: we have a global outbreak of fuckarounditis. Fuckarounditis is a beh

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"Feature Toggling" is a set of patterns which can help a team to deliver new functionality to users rapidly but safely. In this article on Feature Toggling we'll start off with a short story showing s

Brilliant article about why accessibility is required when building websites and apps.

January 28, 2021 0 strokes bestowed or Why Your React Components Should Only Use Custom Hooks edit Update November 22nd, 2021: I added a recording of my CascadiaJS on this topic to the end of this pos

Contents: | | Introduction: Why good commit messages matter If you browse the log of any random Git repository, you will probably find its commit messages are more or less a mess. For example, take a

Animations should be an enhancement, not critical to a user's understanding I recognise that my pre code needs a lot of work, so the code samples are difficult to read and ugly right now. I plan to up

“If you had to offer some principles for modern software development, which would you choose?” At a recent Extreme Tuesday Club (XTC) virtual meet-up, we were discussing whether the SOLID principles a

Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny Modern action and superhero films fetishize the body, even as they desexualize it. by RS Benedict When Paul Verhoeven adapted Starship Troopers in the late 19

This is my commencement speech to the inaugural graduating class of data scientists at Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, UC San Diego given on June 15, 2020 — “You’re the ones that will ensure that w

Origin: Part 1 (1998-2003) Has it really been 20 years? I guess it does feel like 7,372 days (at the time of this post) have past since I started The Skins Factory. To understand the time period Skins

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Feb 16, 2021 DevTools Debugging Tips And Shortcuts (Chrome, Firefox, Edge) About The Author Vitaly Friedman loves beautiful content and doesn’t like to give in easily. When he is not writing, he’s mos

In popular press and social media, there’s been a misunderstanding of what is actually meant when scientists say that the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines have an efficacy of 94-95%. It does not m

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The Story of a Novel Supply Chain Attack Alex Birsan Feb 9 · 11 min read Ever since I started learning how to code, I have been fascinated by the level of trust we put in a simple command like this on

You could argue all day about which is the best chase sequence ever committed to film, but why bother? You’ll always arrive at the same and objectively correct conclusion: the two-minute toy train cha

As an analyst, I spend a lot of my time writing SQL (or other code) to answer questions about our business. These questions can range from simple customer support queries ("Does user X have the right

I've told this story at conferences - but due to the general situation I thought I'd retell it here. A few years ago I was doing policy research in a housing benefits office in London. They are singul

The verbs of the web are GET and POST. In theory there’s also PUT, DELETE, and PATCH but in practice POST often does those jobs. I’m always surprised when front-end developers don’t think about these

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You have a mind-shattering headache. You’re standing in the aisle of your local CVS, massaging your temples while scanning the shelves for something— anything —to make make the pain stop. What do you

Lee Holloway programmed internet security firm Cloudflare into being. Then he became apathetic, distant, and unpredictable—for a long time, no one could make sense of it. Content On Friday, September

I’m an Open Philanthropy Fellow of the Life Sciences Research Foundation . I’m currently a postdoc in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland under the supervision of Dr. Daniel Butts

It's December 1995. Everywhere you turn in Australia, it seems like only one song is playing. Key points: Released in 1995, Coolio's hip hop track Gangsta's Paradise remains one of the top 100 biggest