Web componets: template, slot, and shadow
An explanation of template, slot, and shadow.
SuperGeekery: A blog probably of interest only to nerds by John F Morton.
Welcome to my link library. These are not links to content I have created unless you see that mentioned in the link’s description. These are links I found interesting enough to want to keep track of. If you read Craft Link List, the Craft CMS newsletter I used to write, this page is a replacement of sorts for that exercise. Enough talk. Let’s hit the links.
An explanation of template, slot, and shadow.
Create diagrams and visualizations using text and code.
SVG provides a way to define how an element moves along a motion path. Paul Scanlon shares how to use it by animating race cars in an infinite loop.
This file in the aboutfeeds repo will transform your raw-looking RSS feed into a styled document when users click on your feed icon. It will now include instructions helping the user understand how to use feed icons across the web.
Quickly calculate any CSS selector specificity score along with explanations. With full support for complex CSS selectors.
Adrian Roselli shares an example of a responsive, accessible table along with a discussion of the code and the decisions behind the code.
✨ Trigger.dev is an open-source platform that allows developers to create event-driven background tasks directly in their code.
Deploy Static, NodeJS, Svelte, React, Vue, Next, Nuxt, Astro, PHP, Rust, and more types of applications hassle-free with automatic reverse proxy and free SSL certificates.
A side-effect when showing scrollbars on the web is that the layout of the content might change depending on the type of scrollbar. The scrollbar-gutter CSS property aims to give us developers more control over that. Works in Chrome and Firefox. No support in Safari yet.
Did you miss Dot All in 2022 in Brooklyn? Now you can catch up on the sessions you missed. You can’t replace meeting the people, unfortunately.
Introduction to Web Components. This is a paid course, but check out the “getting started” documentation. It’s a good document all on its own and will teach you a lot about web components.
Privacy-focused drop-in replacement for Google Fonts.
This tool will help you master multi-hued, multi-stops color scales. What is that? “While a (linear) variation in lightness is the most important quality of a sequential color scale, varying the hue can bring further significant improvements. Hue variation provides a better color contrast and thus makes the colors easier to differentiate.” — Learn more here.
Pull content from anywhere and serve it fast with Astro’s next-gen island architecture. Astro is the web framework that you’ll enjoy using.
Excitable musings about front-end development from Cassie Evans.
GetScreenshot is a powerful programmable website screenshot API that allows you to do screenshot capture operations at scale, and for less than other market solutions. No Code and Low Code Friendly.
CSS data visualization framework
A collection of other web development and design blogs to read as the Twitter migration continues.
A course that will teach you how to optimize your Chrome Dev Tools to get the most out of them for performance testing your sites and web apps.
Requestly is a cross-platform developer tool for modifying network (HTTP(s)) requests. It is one of the favorite tools in the developers’ toolkit and has helped over 100,000 web developers.
WebC is a new tool by Zach Leatherman (creator of Eleventy) for serializing custom elements at build time. It aggregates component-level CSS and JavaScript, allowing developers to keep their styles and scripts together with the markup as single file components, the way you may be used to if you work with JavaScript frameworks such as Svelte or Vue.
Can you embed HTML5 videos in email? It’s possible, but is it a wise choice? Find out how to use the right code and get answers on client support.
Developer tooling within browsers is more powerful than ever, but this brings its own problems: there’s just so much! How does it all work? Which bits do I need? What does this even do?
I bought and took this course. Highly recommended!
Create bookmarklets in your browser with a simple copy and paste. This web app helped me quickly iterate on the bookmarklet I made for saving links on SuperGeekery.com.