Chris Coyier

Don’t underestimate `shape()` — it’s the CSS version of SVG that we absolutely needed.

A rare fundamental change to browser default stylesheets: <h1> elements used to get smaller the more <section>s they were nested within, but no more. I would guess because the HTML Outlining Algorithm never really materialized.

A bit of a pivot from the Redwood gang, splitting RedwoodJS into Redwood GraphQL … To minimize disruption and provide clarity going forward, we’re renaming the existing RedwoodJS framework to Redwood GraphQL, reflecting its strength as a mature, stable framework built around GraphQL. … and the newfangled RedwoodSDK. Redwood has always been ultra opinionated (I […]

Matt Smith on when to use map() vs. forEach() in JavaScript. Just one of those things I can imagine asking or being asked in a coding interview. Some interesting comments below the article as well.

Is there a perfectly clear and reasonable answer? Or could we get this someday?

If you’re designing something for kids, you’ve always got Comic Sans as a typeface choice. We make fun of it, but it really is playful and nice and quite readable. It’s not nearly this egregious. I’m sure you can find other good options out there too, but big high fives to the gang at Underware […]

What is the difference between ESLint and TypeScript? Perhaps that feels like a strange question as ESLint is a, uhm, linter, and TypeScript is a language that compiles to JavaScript. Josh Goldberg writes how there is some overlap: While ESLint and TypeScript operate differently and specialize in different areas of code defects, there is some […]

Most folks use one of the big browsers that we’ve all heard of. But there are more and more niche browsers built upon those big open source engines that differentiate themselves in interesting ways.

text-wrap: balanced; dropped first but text-wrap: pretty; wasn’t too far behind and they are both useful. The pretty value is now coming to Safari and Jen Simmons calls it “an unprecedented level of polish to typography on the web.” If you’ve already seen pretty and think of it as the thing that prevents short last […]