The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-Five-Year Mistake

By Chris Coyier on

Very interesting (2 hour!) conference talk from Casey Muratori that is quite a deep historical dive into Object-Oriented Programming. Some of it went over my head, but it was still a fun watch. It’s great to think about where we draw boundaries in software development, and in this case, looking at the difference between drawing […]

Promises From The Ground Up

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Josh Comeau does a great job with beginner-friendly explanations of important concepts, and Promises From The Ground Up is no exception. In a nutshell, we have Promises because we need callbacks. We need callbacks because JavaScript is single-threaded and can’t wait around for things. And so we dance. These days, you’ll see more async and […]

blur(1px) blur(1px)

By Chris Coyier on

I know that you can “chain” the CSS property filter, like: All three of those filters will apply. But somehow I never thought about applying the same filter more than once. That also works, and they don’t override each other, they “stack” (or whatever you want to call it). So here’s some useless bar trivia […]

:heading

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Hot off the presses! Firefox Nightly adds the new :heading pseudo! Easily style all headings, or use nth-child-like AnB syntax to select a range of headings! Needs layout.css.heading-selector.enabled flag enabled. Keith Cirkel Demo.

CSS Gap Decorations

By Chris Coyier on

Microsoft is working on “gap decorations” and have put together a nice playground to explore them, and I had a play. The idea is drawing lines where gaps would be, rather than empty space. It’s really quite well done with lots of control (do they hit the edges or stop short? do they overlap or […]