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Entry (Sources) and TopicsDate#
How Good Engineers Write Bad Code at Big Companies (sea)65
quality, career, culture
Testing Methods: Focus Not Obscured (Enhanced) (dec)64
accessibility, testing, wcag, focus, keyboard-navigation
Using CSS to Fix the Irradiation Illusion (arg)63
css, readability, fonts
How Fast Can Browsers Process Base64 Data? (lem)62
performance, encoding, base64, browsers, metrics, comparisons
The Junior Hiring Crisis (ann/peo)61
hiring, engineering-management, career, community
How Modern Browsers Work (add)60
browsers, chromium, network, parsing, painting, rendering, javascript-engines, v8, memory, modules, javascript, html, css
A False Sense of Accessibility: What Automated Testing Tools Are Missing (a11)59
videos, accessibility, testing, automation, tooling
Stop Aiming for Compliance: Craft a Better Product Strategy Instead (tho)58
accessibility, compliance, product-management, strategies, processes
Designing Your Own Accessibility Vendor Monitoring Program (a11)57
videos, accessibility, business-relations, monitoring
8 PHP Performance Tips Every Developer Should Know56
php, performance, tips-and-tricks, conditionals, caching
Design Systems Are Dead—Long Live Design Systems (lur/zer)55
design-systems, tooling, outlooks
Why Pipes Sometimes Get “Stuck”: Buffering (b0r)54
command-line, unix-like
The Many Faces of Digital Accessibility (aar/a11)53
videos, accessibility, career
Let’s Learn Generators in JavaScript52
javascript, functions
Angular v19 No Signals Edition (arm/dan)51
angular
Character-Based Alignment (css)50
html, css, alignment
If Not React, Then What? (sli)49
frameworks, client-side-rendering, react, user-experience, performance
Don’t Fuck With Scroll48
websites, scrolling, user-experience, usability, accessibility, maintainability
Testing in Production With Canary Deployments: A How-To Guide47
guides, testing, deploying
Measure LCP Sub-Parts to Improve Largest Contentful Paint (mat/deb)46
performance, web-vitals, metrics
Fetch API, Do You Really Know How to Handle Errors?45
data-fetching, apis, errors
Hide and Debug Empty Elements With CSS (mic)44
css
CSS: BEM or Atomic Design43
css, bem, atomic-design, comparisons
Alternative Frontends42
web, censorship
Design That Scales41
books, design, design-systems, scalability, processes
CSS Modules (fro)40
css, modules, scope, examples
Minification and Cache Directives for the Most Popular Websites of the Internet (dvk)39
minification, javascript, css, html, lightning-css, html-minifier, metrics, caching, performance
The Complete Guide to Mobile SEO—8 Tips and Best Practices (sem)38
guides, mobile, seo, tips-and-tricks, best-practices
Speeding Up the JavaScript Ecosystem—One Library at a Time (mar)37
javascript, performance, libraries
5 Ways to Make Your JavaScript More Functional36
javascript, programming
Convert Any Value to a Boolean in JavaScript (ami)35
javascript
The Large, Small, and Dynamic Viewport Units (bra)34
viewport, css, units
Organizing the Eleventy Config File (len)33
eleventy, configuration
Stop Fighting With CSS Positioning (kev)32
videos, css, positioning, layout
Tailwind Is a Leaky Abstraction31
tailwind, css
The Fediverse and the IndieWeb (ben)30
web, fediverse, indieweb
Two Weird Things29
programming, randomness, math
aria-label Is Not Always the Answer (eev)28
html, aria, accessibility
How to Kill a Hung SSH Session27
how-tos, ssh
Strategies for Headless Projects With Structured Content Management Systems (sma)26
content-management, headless, strategies
How to Create Accessibility Statements (w3c)25
how-tos, accessibility, documentation, compliance
Browsing Versus Searching in Design24
design, browsing, searching
AWS Cloud Databases Go Serverless and Multi-Master (bel/ven)23
aws, cloud-computing, databases, serverless, dynamodb
Performance of CSS Selectors Is Still Irrelevant (j9t)22
performance, css, selectors
Experimenting With Color Fonts (fon/css)21
fonts, colors, experiments
WAI–ARIA Gets Ready for a Starring Role in HTML5 (wir)20
aria, html, accessibility
Getting Started With Sass (dde/ali)19
introductions, preprocessors, sass
How to Detect Font-Smoothing Using JavaScript (zol)18
how-tos, fonts, javascript
My 5 Favorite WordPress CSS Tricks (chr/css)17
wordpress, html, headings, css, tips-and-tricks
SEO Mistakes: Read the Fine Print16
seo, mistakes
New CSS JavaScript Library (dal/aja)15
libraries, css, javascript
My @media AJAX Keynote (bre)14
slides, javascript, open-web
WCAG 2 Activity on Cognitive Disability13
wcag, accessibility
IE Expressions Ignore CSS Media Types12
internet-explorer, browsers, css, bugs
Design Decisions: Basecamp Help (jas)11
design
Announcing Symfony 1.0 Beta 1 (fra/sym)10
release-notes, symfony
Information Architecture 3.09
information-architecture, outlooks
Usability for Developers8
usability, hci
XSLT as Pretty Printer7
xsl, formatting
Top 10 Custom JavaScript Functions of All Time6
javascript, functions
Firefox Fans Promised Version 1.5 Tonight (iai)5
firefox, browsers
Tooltip.js: Creating Simple Tooltips (dal/aja)4
libraries, javascript, tooltips
JavaScript and “Serious” Programmers3
javascript, professionalism
What Is Liquid Design?2
liquid-design, design, concepts
“How Do I Force…?”1
best-practices, principles