Studio

By Chris Coyier on

It’s worth noting that Automattic shipped a thing called Studio: … a fast, free way to develop locally with WordPress. Share your local sites with clients or colleagues and keep your local development process smooth and simple. It’s amazing to me that WordPress got to be as dominant as it is without any real answer […]

Printing music with CSS Grid

By Chris Coyier on

What is sheet music if not icons placed in particular vertical and horizontal positions? Stephen Band turned the system of sheet music into a CSS grid system where you control the placement of everything with classes and data-attributes.

https://cruncher.ch/blog/printing-music-with-css-grid/

Icônes

By Chris Coyier on

Icônes is an amazing icon resource site. There are tens of thousands of free-to-use icons which are easy to browse and find. Export or copy in SVG, PNG, or as a component in many popular frameworks.

https://icones.js.org/

“Multiplexed” Fonts Have a Cool Superpower

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Just to cut to the chase, the superpower is being able to adjust their weight (or at least one of their attributes, or as variable fonts call them, an “axis”) without changing the space they occupy. This means that interactive effect and animations can be done without worry for awkward reflow situations and performance problems. […]

HTML attributes vs DOM properties

By Chris Coyier on

Speaking of Jake, his recent article HTML attributes vs DOM properties is a good one for all y’all on that journey to senior developer. I could imagine asking this in an interview. I’d say you should straight up know this is the case and learn over time the more nuanced stuff like which properties reflect […]

On Alt

By Chris Coyier on

Good advice: “Write alternative text as if you’re describing the image to a friend.” Or, if it’s helpful, don’t forget to include the emotion in an image.