UI Dev Newsletter #73
Issue #73
2021-09-06
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Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/09/reducing-carbon-emissions-on-web/
Berwyn Powell shares his thoughts and experiences about making websites environmentally friendly. -
Understanding Z-Index in CSS
https://ishadeed.com/article/understanding-z-index/
Ahmad Shadeed shares a visual guide on how z-index and stacking contexts work in CSS. -
Exploring the CSS Paint API: Blob Animation
https://css-tricks.com/exploring-the-css-paint-api-blob-animation/
Temani Afif explains how to use the powerful Paint API and math to make a blog animation. -
Creating Accessible CSS Art
https://alvaromontoro.com/blog/67979/creating-accessible-css-art
Álvaro Montoro shares some tips and best practices to make CSS art more accessible for everyone. -
Element diversity
https://www.matuzo.at/blog/element-diversity/
Manuel Matuzović shares a list of reasons why we use divs and explains why we shouldn't use divs so much. -
Stop! Put Down That Ternary, Lines Are Free
https://careerswitchtocoding.com/blog/stop-put-down-that-ternary-lines-are-free
Simon Barker explains why we should strive to write code that is understandable to the team's newest and least experienced members by writing more readable code. -
High performance bracket pair colorization
https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_60#_high-performance-bracket-pair-colorization
Visual Studio Code starts to support native bracket pair colorization in the last update. -
Wavy Dividers Generator
https://wavier.art/
Eugene Zolotarenko shares a tool for generating wavy dividers with ease. -
Self-promotion
You want enabling CSS selectors, not disabling ones
https://css-tricks.com/you-want-enabling-css-selectors-not-disabling-ones/
Chris Coyier shares one of my articles about a selector that does a job without disabling the particular rule.
Happy coding!