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Reading Time: 3 minutes On August 17th I m going to be in Austin, Texas so that I can see the premier of a short film called Terms Conditions. Normally I wouldn t share this kind of menial life update. Except, in this case… it s because the film is based on a story I wrote. The film is called Terms Read More
Reading Time: 13 minutes This second installment in the "You don't know HTML" series is going to be all about the ways that we put collections of things together
Reading Time: 2 minutes This is a deep dive into HTML tables that cover its vocabulary parts, Table Object Model, Cell headers, and the semantic value of table headers and footers
Reading Time: 14 minutes Every once in a while someone asks specifically about how to manage CSS performance for a website. What if there's a lot of components? What if there's a lot of animations? What if there's a lot of just CSS?
Reading Time: 11 minutes One of the first deliveries of the National Design Studio is AmericaByDesign — which is deplorable for all.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Sometimes I get stuck with a problem that I don t really like: When I can t execute my little bit of code until another bit of code executes, and there s no events coming from that other code to tell me that it s⠀run. When I find myself in the situation where I need something off of an Read More
Reading Time: 6 minutes There's a newish CSS feature called hyphens that specifies how you want words to be hyphenated when the text wraps. But if you use it, you're going to need to make sure you're also correctly identifying the language. And to understand why that matters, we need to talk about words and syllables.
Reading Time: 14 minutes Hygenic code is commented code. But often, it can be difficult to understand where, when, or even how to comment your front end code. So I'd like to share a small guide for writing comments in your front-end that makes the developer experience better for everyone.
Reading Time: 3 minutes So the :nth-child structural pseudo class is mighty handy already since it lets you select based on mathematical rules. But to my surprise, it got handier and no one told me. Which makes me think no one told you, either: :nth-child() can do filtering now! A Quick Primer on Structural Pseudo-classesWatermark:FrankMTaylor So I wrote about Read More
Reading Time: 5 minutes I ve complained in the past about how I don t like application architectures being led by the front-end team. Rather than complain some more, I want to talk about how front-end developers could meaningfully participate in the architecture of a project — particularly the CMS part. I want to talk about how front-end developers can be Read More