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How To Build Your Own Mouseless Development Environment
smashingmagazine.com Sep 21, 2021
Once upon a time, in the magical land of Software development, there was a young developer, your humble servant, discovering Linux for the first time. Suddenly, I had access to the Linux shell, a tool offering many ways to automate everything I...
Are Imposter Domains Re-Publishing Your Website?
smashingmagazine.com Sep 20, 2021
We think of web scraping as a tool used to harvest web content for information analysis purposes, sometimes to the detriment of the site owner. For example, someone might web scrape all the product pages of a competitor’s retail site to harvest...
Monetize Open-Source Software With Gatsby Functions And Stripe
smashingmagazine.com Sep 17, 2021
In this article, I’ll be explaining how I’ve used Gatsby Functions and the Stripe API to enable secure “Pay what you want” contributions that help fund my open-source project MDX Embed. Note: MDX Embed allows you to easily embed popular third-party...
Web Quality Assurance: From User Requirements To Web Risk Management
smashingmagazine.com Sep 16, 2021
As a chemist by trade, I received a Master’s degree in Quality Management and Quality Control from Bordeaux University. My initial career was in the wine industry, ensuring the quality of the laboratory’s operations and the analyses that came out...
Reducing The Need For Pseudo-Elements
smashingmagazine.com Sep 15, 2021
Per the W3C spec, “a pseudo-element represents an element not directly present in the document tree”. They have been around since version 1 of the CSS specification, when ::first-letter and ::first-line were introduced. The popular ::before and...
Orchestrating Complexity With Web Animations API
smashingmagazine.com Sep 13, 2021
There’s no middle ground between simple transitions and complex animations. You’re either fine with what CSS Transitions and Animations provide or you suddenly need all the power you can get. Web Animations API gives you a lot of tools to work with...
The best laptop for CAD, AutoCAD and 3D modeling
creativebloq.com Sep 10, 2021
The best laptop for CAD (computer-aided design) is a must for architects, engineers and construction professionals, as well as students and apprentices of these disciplines. If you work in CAD, chances are you'll need to use Autodesk's AutoCAD so...
The best laptops for blogging in 2021
creativebloq.com Sep 8, 2021
The best laptops for blogging enables you to comfortably type away no matter where you are. If you have your own blog – or you're thinking of starting one up – then the laptops on this page will prove to be essential tools. Blogs (once known as a...
The animation secrets of Pixar's Luca
creativebloq.com Sep 8, 2021
Pixar's Luca combines a coming-of-age story on the picturesque Italian Riviera with the richly imagined fantasy of underwater creatures living peacefully below the idyllic watery surface. To tell the story of Luca and his newfound best friend,...
Developer Decisions For Building Flexible Components
smashingmagazine.com Sep 8, 2021
In the real world, content often differs vastly from the neat, perfectly fitting content presented in designs. Added to that, on the modern web, users have an ever-increasing range of options for how they access the sites we build. In this article,...
HTTP/3: Practical Deployment Options (Part 3)
smashingmagazine.com Sep 6, 2021
Hello, and welcome to the final installment of this three-part series on the new HTTP/3 and QUIC protocols! If after the previous two parts — HTTP/3 history and core concepts and HTTP/3 performance features — you’re convinced that starting to use...
Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web
smashingmagazine.com Sep 3, 2021
As is the case with many other developers, the reports over the last few years of the huge energy requirements of the web have prompted me to take a look at my own websites and see what I can do to minimize their impact. This piece will cover some...
Interactive Learning Tools For Front-End Developers
smashingmagazine.com Sep 2, 2021
Because this industry moves so quickly, learning new skills is a regular thing for most of us. Over the last little while, I’ve been able to collect links to several interactive coding tools and apps that can help you supplement your skills in...
A Deep Dive Into The Wonderful World Of SVG Displacement Filtering
smashingmagazine.com Sep 1, 2021
Even today, the magic, wicked realm of SVG Filter Effects is largely uncharted territory. The art of SVG filtering is still surrounded by an aura of alchemy: you have to bravely dive into a dark world of inconsistencies, your dedication will...
State Management In Next.js
smashingmagazine.com Aug 31, 2021
This article is intended to be used as a primer for managing complex states in a Next.js app. Unfortunately, the framework is way too versatile for us to cover all possible use cases in this article. But these strategies should fit the vast...
Refactoring CSS: Optimizing Size And Performance (Part 3)
smashingmagazine.com Aug 30, 2021
In previous articles from this series, we’ve covered auditing CSS codebase health and the incremental CSS refactoring strategy, testing, and maintenance. Regardless of how much the CSS codebase has been improved during the refactoring process and...
Pushing Back Against Privacy Infringement On The Web
smashingmagazine.com Aug 26, 2021
At the ripe old age of 25, nytimes.com is now older than some of the people who work building it. Wikipedia turned 20 this year, and the first browser shipped 30 years ago. The Web has over 4 billion internet users and is nearing 2 billion...
Creating A Public/Private Multi-Monorepo For PHP Projects
smashingmagazine.com Aug 25, 2021
To make my development experience faster, I moved all of the PHP packages required by my projects to a monorepo. When each package is hosted in its own repository (the multirepo approach), I would need to develop and test it on its own and then...
The Endless Life Cycle of Book Cover Trends
eyeondesign.aiga.org Aug 24, 2021
) has been one of the most consequential pieces of mainstream fiction to publish this year: a modern relationship story that offers a view into urban trans culture. , sans serif title, ambiguous silhouettes. If you look too hastily at the window of...
The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games posters are a thing of beauty
creativebloq.com Aug 24, 2021
As another fantastically jam-packed Olympic games come to an end, the 2020 Paralympics are just getting started. This year's games come with an incredible set of posters that capture the strength and movement of the para-athletes. Tokyo-based...
How To Automate Documentation Workflow For Developers
smashingmagazine.com Aug 24, 2021
To get the most out of this tutorial, you should be familiar with: Git, GitHub and Linux and the command line. Many teams struggle with writing documentation. When you go to check a framework, the documentation will often be out of date or unclear....
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