Chris Coyier

I enjoyed watching Honeypot’s recent Node.js Documentary. Props to Honeypot for taking the time and resources to do these historical dives into some of our industries most major technologies. I like seeing the human side of these things. I feel like if too much more time passed, documentaries like these would get a lot harder […]

The JavaScript architectural pattern of “signals” has really had a moment in the last year. There are lots of frameworks that have adopted it as the predominant way to declare and respond to variables that change across componentry. Web standards bodies, at their best, notice things like this and step in to help bring them […]

Looks like Mandy Michael has been busy lately! I’m just seeing her fairly new Text Effects site, which has a growing collection of cool looks for text with demos and tutorials (GOLD!). Then I noticed her Variable Fonts site has kind of joined the fray with a similar design and a third site, Text Lab as […]

Have you ever been like, ughkgh, is it npm run dev or npm run start? Is it yarn testwatch or yarn test:watch? If you do it every time you open a project, I’d suggest setting up tasks. But I mean more for one-off or less frequently used scripts. I’m forever forgetting the exact scripts from […]

I’m a GUI guy when it comes to using Git. I like to click over to a native app and immediately see useful things. Like a list of files that were changed in the repo I’m actively working on, on the branch I’m actively working on. This feels efficient and productive to me. I can […]

I’ve had this Tweet bookmarked for months now from Brian Lovin who does a classic and well-deserved wrist-slapping of flashy design at the cost of communication. It’s all-too-easy to focus on exotic micro-interactions that will get likes on social media, but fail to communicate what a product does or tell a compelling story. Criticism of […]

My goal with this bookmarkable guide is to provide a list of (frankly: incredible) new additions to CSS lately. There is no hardline criteria for this list other than that these things are all fairly new and my sense is that many people aren’t aware of these things. Or even if they are, they don’t […]

I feel like I’ve always been in the minority on this: I don’t think you should use target=”_blank” on links. Unless you have a very good reason, that is, like there is currently-playing media that would stop, or a user has unsaved work you don’t want to interrupt. But I find that most people disagree, and have their own philosophy.

Jermey Keith visited a school doing this exact project, and I thought it was a great idea for learning: There’s a specific module his students are partaking in that’s right up my alley. They’re given a PDF inheritance-tax form and told to convert it for the web. You could make doing this job really well […]

Matej Latin has rejected the vast majority of portfolios he’s seen in his career for one reason, a “linear design process”: By “linear design process” I mean cookie-cutter case studies that always read the same. The designer learned about a problem, conducted user interviews, created user personas, proceeded to sketches, then mockups and wireframes, made […]