If you need a mini build process just for your CSS, Lightning CSS is a pretty good modern choice. That, plus a file watcher and live reloader offers pretty good DX.
“Reactivity” is how systems react to changes in data. There are many types of reactivity, but for this article, reactivity is when data changes, you do things.
When we chat about AI, getting lost in a sea of buzzwords and futuristic predictions is easy. We’ve all heard the debates – will AI revolutionize our world or make our jobs obsolete? So, let’s look beyond the hype and instead look at how AI can help with the subject of my course on creating high-converting […]
Do you ever feel like the web has turned into Mos Eisley, “a wretched hive of scum and villainy”? A place where anything goes as companies attempt to persuade us to click, download or buy. The web seems full of deceptive design patterns that use psychology to manipulate people into handing over personal information (also known […]
How often have you scrambled to assemble a resume, only never to hear back from the company you applied to? You’re not alone. Often your resume competes against hundreds (or even thousands!) of other resumes. So…how do you get noticed? A resume isn’t something most people regularly update (even though we probably should). When you […]
If you start an app project today, there are some simple decisions, such as the cloud provider or the backend stack you will use. But the biggest challenge is to choose the right frontend app platform: PWA or native? Flutter or one native app per platform? What about React Native? You are looking for a […]
How Game Engines Like Unity Help You Get Into Game Development If you like to play video games or are in the orbit of technical jargon, you’ve probably heard about game engines like Unity and Unreal. These industry leaders power a massive chunk of the modern gaming industry. At their core, game engines are software […]
Have you heard the story of the 500 mile email? It’s a facinating story about someone on a college campus who could only send an email around 500 geographical miles. It sounds absurd, but it ended up being true!
Harley Hicks has started a brand new site/newsletter named after this famous debugging story in order to share more stories like that. The one about the Wi-Fi only working in the rain is similarly satisfying.
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 to pull off and may never happen at all. Not to assign bloated importance to my own industry, but web technology affects a massive slice of the population of Earth, so major changes in how it works are a big deal.
They’ve also done Ruby on Rails, React, Vue, Ember, GraphQL, and others. All stuff you can learn on Frontend Masters, weird 😛.
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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 to the web platform where everyone will benefit. For JavaScript, that’s TC39, and there is a brand new proposal for signals by Rob Eisenberg and Daniel Ehrenberg. Cool!
You never know where these “Stage 0” proposals are going to go though. There is massive evidence that people like types in JavaScript, but the proposal to standardize that is two years old now and hasn’t gone anywhere.
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 well with really progressive demos.
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