How Diamonds are Made?

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A short, clear, engaging website that explains how diamonds are made by Jaydip Sanghani. Several facts in there I just didn’t know at all until now, like how many diamonds have a tiny serial number carved onto them. I think it’s nice to showcase websites that do things that websites really do best. I’d maybe […]

Better Browser Caching with No-Vary-Search

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The new No-Vary-Search header can be used to tell browsers that a query string like ?product_id=7 means the content on that URL is unique based on the query parameter, so cache pages like that individually. But also that a query string like ?utm_source=frontendmasters does not have unique content, so don’t cache it individually. (As explained […]

border-shape

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Una Kravets: Creating non-standard shapes on the web, like a speech bubble or a heart have typically required you to cut off your actual borders with clip-path. […] This is where border-shape comes in. It’s a powerful upcoming CSS primitive that defines a custom shape for an element’s border. Welp, clip-path() had a good run. I’ll always be fond […]

Arrays, objects… now ‘composites’?

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Nice 9-minute video from Matt Pocock (from about a year ago) introducing composites. The problem of not being able to compare objects definitely feels worth solving. Or, more accurately, fixing the issue where when compare two objects that look exactly the same, it’s still false. And that using them as keys doesn’t work. Sounds like […]

Why I don’t chain everything in JavaScript anymore

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Matt Smith makes a lot of good points in his article about no longer chaining things in JavaScript. Just those first two code samples in the post say a lot, but stick around for all the samples and learn a little somethin’. To me, it’s the inevitability that I’m going to need to log something between the […]

Code is Clay

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A nice essay from Cam Pedersen. Clay breaks. A lot. My first few attempts collapsed on the wheel. One piece cracked in the kiln. I dropped another walking to my car. But nobody cries about it, you just start over. The clay doesn’t care. It’s just material waiting for the next idea. You’re gonna have […]