UI Dev Newsletter #71
Issue #71
2021-08-23
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How to find the cause of horizontal scrollbars
https://polypane.app/blog/strategies-for-dealing-with-horizontal-overflows/
Kilian Valkhof explains what causes horizontal scrollbars and shows some techniques for finding horizontal scrolling issues. -
Star Rating: An SVG Solution
https://ishadeed.com/article/star-rating-svg/
Ahmad Shadeed goes through the SVG solution for star rating systems and how it works for different scenarios. -
What I learned from Software Engineering at Google
https://swizec.com/blog/what-i-learned-from-software-engineering-at-google/
Swizec Teller shares a recap of lessons after reading the “Software Engineering at Google” book. -
Does shadow DOM improve style performance?
https://nolanlawson.com/2021/08/15/does-shadow-dom-improve-style-performance/
Nolan Lawson tries to answer this question by showing how shadow DOM works and by benchmarking the selectors. -
HTML Video Sources Should Be Responsive
https://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/video-with-sizes/
Scott Jehl proposes a solution for responsibly-sized, responsive, contextually-sized videos. -
NProgress.js
https://ricostacruz.com/nprogress/
Rico Sta. Cruz shares a nanoscopic progress bar featuring realistic trickle animations to convince your users that something is happening! -
View Source
https://neatnik.net/view-source/
Neatnik shares a tool to view the source of any web page on the internet that could be very handy, especially on mobile devices. -
The joy of sharing an open source project on Reddit
https://mobile.twitter.com/perborgen/status/1427365523357044738
Per Harald Borgen shares a tweet with a negative comment from Reddit that sums up the everyday experience of using Reddit. -
Just for fun
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Infocom interactive fiction
https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/interactive/embed/container.html?url=//downloads.bbc.co.uk/interactive/h2g2/main.js&height=577px&width=944px&path=//downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio/games/h2g2/
Play a 1984 interactive fiction game written by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky and published by Infocom. -
Self-promotion
Nightmare DX (Developer Experience): Shopify
https://www.silvestar.codes/articles/nightmare-dx-shopify/
I published an article about Shopify and its (un)friendliness for developers.
Happy coding!