The enchanting, imaginative narratives usually bound between the covers of a book burst from the page in the sculptures of Su Blackwell. Often sourcing materials from secondhand shops, flea markets, and library sales, the British artist, who’s based in Hastings, constructs lush gardens of birds and wildflowers and quiet cottages in the midst of evergreens that appear to emerge from vintage volumes. Imbued with movement in the form of wind or waves, the whimisical works tend to revolve around the fleeting and finding refuge during times of loneliness and mundanity. More  ( 2 min )

For Trevon Latin, the best use of questions is to breed more questions, a tenet of his practice that he speaks to in a new interview supported by Colossal Members. Each quilt remnant, each barrette, each string of beads he incorporates into the work asks, What does masculinity look like? What does it mean to present yourself as a Black person? What does intimacy look like? What does it mean to exist as a corporeal, analog self versus a digital self or a self mediated through a work of art? More  ( 2 min )

It’s 2072. We solved world hunger, you can teleport to Mars, and we really did figure out how to make gas from compost like in Back to the Future. We know we can’t predict what the world looks like 50 years from now, but we still wanted to find a way to show our future selves and generations to come what means to live in 2022. Along with our friends at the Brooklyn Art Library, we’re launching The Time Capsule Project, a collection of 1,000 mini sketchbooks that will be buried in St. More  ( 2 min )

You never create one product on the web – you create a product that people can change to their needs. At least you should. I’ve been working on the web since 1997 and one thing I realised early on is a big basic idea of the web: You do not control how your web product […]  ( 3 min )

Bringing page transitions to the web * Building a button component * Web Applications 101 The post Collective #712 appeared first on Codrops.  ( 4 min )

A simple transition where a large image animates to its place in a grid. The post Image To Grid Transition appeared first on Codrops.  ( 3 min )

Don’t you hate it when you load a website or web app, some content displays and then some images load — causing content to shift around? That’s called content reflow and can lead to an incredibly annoying user experience for … Inline Image Previews with Sharp, BlurHash, and Lambda Functions originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 7 min )

By default, a button has an innate type property of submit. When tapped, clicked, or activated inside a form, it will cause that form to submit (and trigger a corresponding submit event). Activate Me let form = document.querySelector('#say-hi'); form.addEventListener('submit', function () { console.log('Someone said hi!'); }); Every now and then, you have a button inside a form that’s used for some other interaction, and should not cause the form to submit.  ( 1 min )

Levi Jacobs is a Dutch illustrator based in Rotterdam. His style is eye-catching, especially his use of colors and textures which have a refreshing escapist quality. In the end, his ability to convey ideas in fresh and interesting ways makes his work so effective, for brands, publications and advertising campaigns. Besides editorial work Levi Jacobs loves to makes prints and murals. In this he imagines a world he called Planet Tropicana. This gives him freedom to make work without boundaries.  ( 4 min )

In this article, Benjamin Ajibade introduces Kubernetes to front-end engineers and explaines why Kubernetes is integral in a production-ready microservice architecture. Some key terms that are important for team collaboration will be discussed and conclude the post with a quick deployment to getting started as a beginner.  ( 10 min )

“When we spend a lot of time in a place, and if we are paying attention, a kind of intimacy develops,” says Jeanne Simmons. The artist, who’s based in the Pacific Northwest, grounds her practice in this sense of familiarity and ease with her surroundings. “We come to know the plants that grow there and the critters that roam there… We may even begin to feel that we ourselves have become part of that place, and it is this feeling that sustains and inspires me.” After gathering natural materials like branches, wild vegetables, and bark, Simmons constructs garments that intertwine her own body with the landscape and obscure the distinction between the two. More  ( 2 min )

Since 2010, Brazilian origami artist Jo Nakashima has amassed a trove of original designs ranging from modular cubes and kinetic works to multicolor, angular wildlife. His creations require just a single sheet of double-sided paper and a deft hand and vary in complexity: Nakashima marks the eagle with pleated wings, quacking duck, and writhing snake shown here as intermediate or above. Head to YouTube for detailed instructions on folding your own versions of his intricate designs, but take note of his warning: “Although I call it ‘simplified,’ it doesn’t mean it is simple: it is just simpler than the original version, but actually it is still a bit complex.”   More  ( 2 min )

It’s easy to recognize the quirky, joyful characters of French artist Jean Jullien. Whether looming over a park or gracing a deck of cards, his dodgy dogs, smirking fish, and mischievous tree-climbers are cartoonish in style and emotionally conspicuous with their anxious expressions and good-natured gestures. A forthcoming monograph published by Phaidon celebrates Jullien’s broad body of work, which spans public sculpture, illustration, and design. More  ( 2 min )

I ask everyone who signs up for my newsletter the same question: “what’s the biggest challenge you face as a web developer?” I get back a lot of responses, but I get back a few variations of the same response more than any other… I have a tough time keeping up with all of the changes to our industry. I don’t know what to focus on. Some version of this accounts for at least half of all of the responses I get.  ( 3 min )

I was fortunate last year to get approached by Shawn Wang (swyx) about doing some work for Temporal. The idea was to cast my creative eye over what was on the site and come up with some … An Interactive Starry Backdrop for Content originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 10 min )

In this article, you will learn how to create a rollercoaster path that a ball follows using cubic beziers and CSS transitions. You’ll also learn how the `cubic-bezier` function in CSS works in detail and how to stack multiple simple animations to create one complex one.  ( 9 min )

From floral Soundsuits and found-object sculptures to a multicolor web of millions of pony beads, Forothermore surveys the 30-plus-year career of artist Nick Cave. The retrospective, which draws its name from “forevermore” and “for others,” opened last week at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and captures both the evolution and mainstays of the artist’s practice. Cave spoke with Colossal in an interview ahead of the show, saying, “Why now, why now this moment, why this exhibition, why this survey, and who is it for? More  ( 3 min )

Books have beguiled us since they first emerged in the form of ancient scrolls and codices around the world. The way we access, utilize, and enjoy reading material has seen technological transformation over the centuries, from Johannes Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press in the 15th century, to the first dictionary produced in 1532, to the advent of affordable pocket paperbacks in the early 20th century. Paper tomes have had an immeasurable impact on society and our ability to relay knowledge, and even in an age of digital e-readers, the physical volume still embodies an appeal as timeless as literature itself. More  ( 3 min )

The gharial, a large crocodile with a distinctive bulge on its snout, is critically endangered in the wild, with researchers counting only a few hundred individuals in 2017. Living primarily in the rivers of Nepal and India, the scaly reptiles saw a rapid decline since the 1930s due to overfishing and loss of habitats from sand mining and dams, and biologists estimate the population has dwindled to only two percent. Thanks to the National Chambal Sanctuary, though, which is home to a substantial group of gharial, the species is growing. More  ( 2 min )

The Inspect tool is a great way to get information about different page elements before selecting then. Once it is enabled, it shows an information overlay as you move from element to element. The main problem with the tool is that sometimes it is tough to get the information about the right element, as they […]  ( 1 min )

Utilizing icons in user interface elements is helpful. In addition to element labeling, icons can help reinforce a user element’s intention to users. But I have to say, I notice a bit of icon misalignment while browsing the web. Even … Improving Icons for UI Elements with Typographic Alignment and Scale originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 4 min )

I often say that “I support all modern browsers” with the code that I write. But what does that mean, actually? Let’s dig in. What’s a “modern browser?” For me, a modern browser is one of the evergreen (automatically updating) desktop browsers: Edge, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. It also includes the most popular and common mobile browsers: WebKit View, Chrome, and FireFox on Android; Safari on iOS. It does not include legacy browsers like IE (including IE 11).  ( 1 min )

3D Designer / Artist / Art Director from Germany. Currently freelancing and enjoying the new role as a father.  ( 5 min )

Let’s take a closer look at how you can create your very own WordPress site up and running created and hosted with the Elementor Cloud Website.  ( 7 min )

In this episode, we ask how one man can go from designing websites for local bands to heading up Google Fonts Knowledge. Smashing’s Vitaly Friedman talks to Elliot Jay Stocks to find out.  ( 24 min )

What makes the underused `Server-Timing` header uniquely powerful among all other response headers? We’ll rethink the expectation for using it exclusively for timing and see fast solutions for hard-to-solve monitoring challenges.  ( 17 min )

We are thrilled to have the first round of tooling support for the new experimental responsiveness metric, Interaction to Next Paint (INP). To learn about the metric itself, check out the official INP metric guide. # Suggested measurement The goal of measuring INP is to understand how fast your page responds to user input. The only way to get realistic data is to measure how your page is responding for real users visiting your site using data from the field. Measuring INP in the lab then helps to better understand event timings and where optimizations need to happen. Lab tools won't automatically interact with the page, so they either need manual input while they measure, or they need to be scripted with an automation tool like Puppeteer. When key interactions are identified from typical u…  ( 2 min )

Welcome to the start of year edition of "Progress in the Privacy Sandbox", covering March and April 2022, as we track the milestones on the path to phasing out third-party cookies in Chrome and working towards a more private web. In each edition, we share an overview of the updates to the Privacy Sandbox timeline along with news from across the project. # Privacy Sandbox Relevance and Measurement origin trial Early developer feedback and the ability to evolve proposals based on that feedback continues to be a top priority for us. We have opened a combined origin trial for Attribution Reporting, FLEDGE, and Topics to allow for initial feedback on these APIs in real world environments. We're starting with a very small proportion of users on the Chrome Beta channel, starting with Chrome 101. …  ( 5 min )

A brilliant greenhouse suffused with a rich spectrum of color stands at 25 Porchester Place in London. Bathed in sunlight by day and illuminated by LED bulbs at night, the translucent structure is lined with a disorienting collage of Christian iconography and folkloric imagery: saintly figures sprout insect wings and wildlife occupies spaces usually dominated by humans in a melange of spiritual symbols. Titled “Sacré blur,” the greenhouse is a 2015 project by horticultural artists Tony Heywood and Alison Condie, who originally created the piece to house psychedelic plants at the Oxford Botanic Gardens—this part of the project never materialized over fears that students might misuse the hallucinatory specimens. More  ( 3 min )

Lisa Nilsson (previously) has spent years perfecting a technique known as quilling in which thin strips of paper are rolled into coils and then pinched and nudged into shape in a process she likens to completing a puzzle. With a history thought to extend back to Ancient Egypt, the practice rose to more recent popularity in 18th century Europe. Narrow edges of gilt book pages were a popular material, creating metallic surfaces when rolled into place. More  ( 3 min )

Whether it’s to advance your career or try something new, SVACE offers more than 230 online and in-person offerings to choose from. Visit sva.edu/ce to view the courses, which begin on June 6. Online and in-person courses are available in: Advertising Animation Art & Activism Design Film Fine Arts Global Arts Illustration and Cartooning Interior Design Photography and Video Professional Development Visual and Critical Studies Visible Futures Lab Visual Narrative Free Virtual Events & Information Sessions Registration Details Course Advice ce@sva.edu to connect with one of our course advisors. More  ( 2 min )

Housing the largest aircraft and missile facility around the globe, the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson is a trove of aviation history. The Arizona boneyard is responsible for nearly 4,000 vehicles that are maintained, recycled for parts, and stored across miles of the dry, desert landscape. Photographer Bernhard Lang (previously) visited the site recently to document the aircraft, which are organized in neat rows and grouped by model. More  ( 2 min )

After the feature-packed release of Safari 15.4 two months ago, WebKit’s work for this version of Safari focused predominately on polishing existing features and fixing bugs.  ( 4 min )

Global styles, a feature of the block themes, is one of my favorite parts of creating block themes. The concept of global style variations in WordPress were introduced in Gutenberg 12.5 which would allow theme authors to create alternate … Creating Style Variations in WordPress Block Themes originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 11 min )

Whenever there’s an International ${traditionally excluded or marginalized group} Day, visible people in that group get flooded with token mentions. This International Women’s Day, I want to give a shoutout to {WELL-KNOWN WOMAN IN TECH}, who’s had a big impact on my career. It’s great to give the people you respect or who have helped you in a positive way kudos. But holidays recognizing traditionally excluded or marginalized groups are not supposed to be “shout-out that famous person you know in that group” day.  ( 2 min )

Untangling the satellite imagery supply chain.  ( 6 min )

Laetitia Ky exercises art activism by braiding African identity into hair sculpture. Born from the lack of representation she experienced growing up on the Ivory Coast, her practice started by cutting the silky straight strands off of her Barbie doll heads and meticulously re-stitching curly extensions as a child. In Love and Justice, Ky’s towering sculptures are embedded into aspects of everyday life. She draws on the strength and durability of Black hair texture to weave traditional instruments, regional wildlife, and bodies in motion into interactive portraits that capture the beauty in common aspects of culture across the continent. More  ( 2 min )

Hidden in a narrow cavern extending less than two feet from floor to ceiling, five cave drawings are the largest of their kind discovered so far in North America. Three anthropomorphic figures and two rattlesnakes are etched into the mud surface of 19th Unnamed Cave in Alabama—the name is intentionally vague to protect the exact location—with the most sizable glyph measuring nearly 11 feet. The renderings are thought to be from the Early and Middle Woodland prehistoric periods, or between 133 and 433 CE when populations began to shift from primarily nomadic hunting and gathering to settling and establishing agricultural production. More  ( 3 min )

It’s a secret to everyone! This post is for RSS subscribers only. Read more about RSS Club. Two years ago, Easter of 2020, I was chatting with some friends about crypto and one friend was starting to set aside some money and invest. Seemed harmless to do with “fun money”. We were in a pandemic after all, so no one was doing anything anyways. This was the height of the Gamestop and $DOGE meme stock market drama. I dismissed crypto at the time, but I used my Stocks app to follow the prices of $BTC, $ETH, $SOL, $DOGE, $SHIB, $LUNA, $XRP, $XTZ, and a some others that crossed my periphery field of view. You see, it’s not hard to sell me on crypto. “Big banks, payday loans, and fees are problematic” = yes. “We can decentralize identity and web logins” = yes, cool. “We can decentralize payment” …  ( 3 min )

In my last article we saw how CSS background properties allow us to create cool hover effects. This time, we will focus on the CSS text-shadow property to explore even more interesting hovers. You are probably wondering how adding shadow … Cool Hover Effects That Use CSS Text Shadow originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 7 min )

Today, I wanted to talk about one of my favorite tricks for making code a bit more readable: the early return pattern. Let’s dig in! The challenge with if checks When coding, you often want to check if a condition exists before continuing. For example, let’s say you have a function that runs whenever the user clicks a button with the .save-data class. It gets the value of the [data-id] attribute from the button, gets a saved token from localStorage, and then combines the two and saves it as a new entry in localStorage.  ( 2 min )

We waste so much today. One way of focusing on what truly matters is by identifying Top Tasks for yourself. Learn how to make tough decisions by focusing on the real, quantifiable evidence that will help create a better experience for your users.  ( 11 min )

Across nearly 450 pages, PRIME: Art’s Next Generation offers a broad and insightful survey of the Millenials defining the future of the art world. As its title suggests, the massive tome is a primer on the innovative, subversive, and category-defying works that are captivating curators and art professionals. The volume is collated based on time period alone, bringing together more than 100 international artists working across mediums who were born between 1980 and 1995—this includes  Jordan Casteel, Tau Lewis (previously), and Firelei Báez (previously)—in a look at what’s emerged from a cultural and creative landscape shaped by the internet and increasing connectivity. More  ( 2 min )

A new report released this week by an Australian agency says that the 1,400-mile Great Barrier Reef has undergone its sixth mass bleaching. About 91 percent of the brightly colored marine ecosystems were affected by this most recent catastrophe, which occurs when water temperatures rise. Disasters like this are becoming more frequent as the climate crisis intensifies, prompting artists like Christine and Margaret Wertheim to respond with striking displays of what could be permanently lost. More  ( 3 min )

Rambling, weathered ivy constructs the walls of a home placed among the quiet, serene cemetery of Wuhan Shimenfeng Memorial Park. The project of designer Hu Quanchun of Field Conforming Studio, “The Vanished House” elicits the act of remembering in a public space devoted to mourning and memories. Tension between the enduring and transitory pervades the architectural work, shown through the combination of the sturdy material and open roof that appears to fade around the perimeter. More  ( 2 min )

Using the Quick edit bookmarklet you can make any web site editable. Drag it to your favourites toolbar, click it and you get into edit mode. You can edit, copy and paste, delete and anything else. Hitting `ESC` will end edit mode. You can use this to quickly edit web sites before taking a screenshot, […]  ( 1 min )

Firefox uses a multi-process model for additional security and stability while browsing: Web Content (such as HTML/CSS and Javascript) is rendered in separate processes that are isolated from the rest of the operating system and managed by a privileged parent process. This way, the amount of control gained by an attacker that exploits a bug in a content process is limited. In this article, we would like to dive a bit further into the latest major milestone we have reached: Win32k Lockdown, which greatly reduces the capabilities of the content process when running on Windows. The post Improved Process Isolation in Firefox 100 appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.  ( 7 min )

Motion DevTools * Voby * State of CSS 2022 * Learn CSS Subgrid * Markdoc The post Collective #711 appeared first on Codrops.  ( 4 min )

Jeremy Keith wrote an article on trust that adds another interesting angle to my article yesterday on the systems that cause developers to choose libraries over browser-native technology. Developers are more likely to trust, say, Bootstrap than they are to trust CSS grid or custom properties. Developers are more likely to trust React than they are to trust web components. On the one hand, I get it. Bootstrap and React are very popular.  ( 1 min )

Braydon Coyer recently launched a monthly CSS art challenge. He actually had reached out to me about donating a copy of my book Move Things with CSS to use as a prize for the winner of the challenge — … A CSS Slinky in 3D? Challenge Accepted! originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 11 min )

About two and a half years ago, I introduced the idea of daily ethical design. It was born out of my frustration with the many obstacles to achieving design that’s usable and equitable; protects people’s privacy, agency, and focus; benefits society; and restores nature. I argued that we need to overcome the inconveniences that prevent us from acting ethically and that we need to elevate design ethics to a more practical level by structurally integrating it into our daily work, processes, and tools. Unfortunately, we’re still very far from this ideal.  At the time, I didn’t know yet how to structurally integrate ethics. Yes, I had found some tools that had worked for me in previous projects, such as using checklists, assumption tracking, and “dark reality” sessions, but I didn’t manage to a…  ( 13 min )

Danilo Campos is a brazilian designer and developer based in Barcelona. He is co-founder of Twoo and designer at VTEX.  ( 4 min )

In this article, Dan Shappir analyzes the performance cost associated with various frameworks and explains the wide variety of framework and platform choices that are currently available to front-end and fullstack developers.  ( 15 min )

Widely regarded as one of the most renowned sculptors in Australia, the late artist Bronwyn Oliver possessed an unparalleled ability to shape thin copper wire into intricate patterns. Her sculptures of ammonites, palm leaves, and single buds are minimal in form and incredibly detailed in construction, with oscillating lines delineating the edge of a fossil or an elaborate web expanding into a plump cherry blossom. Evidence of Oliver’s devoted and time-consuming practice, the pieces are the result of intense twisting and brazing, a higher-temperature version of soldering. More  ( 3 min )

Royal frogs, masquerading lemurs, and florals with human faces are just some of the eccentric characters in acclaimed illustrator Bill Mayer’s (previously) gouache paintings. The traditional aesthetic of European still-life, aristocratic portraiture, and romantic landscape paintings set the scene for uncanny, chimerical subjects who engage in dreamlike encounters or gaze haughtily at the viewer. Gouache, which is water-soluble and more vividly opaque than watercolor, allows the artist to mimic the incredible detail of oil paint but with more flexibility. More  ( 2 min )

A portmanteau of forevermore and for others, Forothermore is a prescient title for the first retrospective of artist Nick Cave opening this week at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Cave discusses the career-spanning exhibition in a new interview supported by Colossal Members, starting with his Soundsuits, the captivating costumes of color and fur that are likely his most recognizable pieces. His work consistently confronts racism, homophobia, and other bigotries through the alluring, affecting power of art. More  ( 3 min )

A few weeks ago, I had a conversation with someone who felt that the reason developers tend to just reach for npm install solutions and implement bad websites so often is because they’re lazy. I disagree. I have a degree in anthropology, and one of the things I’ve come to believe from studying and teaching people for years is that much of human behavior is driven by systems, not individuals.  ( 2 min )

According to Toshi Omagari, the author of Arcade Game Typography, the world’s first multi-colored digital font was created in 1982 for a never-released video game called Insector. Multi-colored fonts, sometimes called chromatic type, are still relatively rare on the … COLRv1 and CSS font-palette: Web Typography Gets Colorful originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 8 min )

An experimental layout transition where a stack of images animates to a gallery view, showing some more content. The post Stack to Content Layout Transition appeared first on Codrops.  ( 3 min )

In this article, we will be taking a closer look at a design case study and discuss possible reasons why its customers abandon their online shopping carts and what solutions are recommended in each particular case.  ( 7 min )

Safari Technology Preview Release 145 is now available for download for macOS Big Sur and of macOS Monterey.  ( 2 min )

Since Chrome 92, we've been running an Early Access Program (EAP) for a feature called Private Prefetch Proxy, which speeds up outgoing navigations from Google Search by 30% at the median. Private Prefetch Proxy allows the prefetching of cross-origin content without exposing user information to the destination website until the user navigates. We expect that the feature will graduate from this EAP as early as Chrome 103, thereby no longer requiring websites to opt-in, and allowing other referrer websites to safely speed up cross-site navigations. Read on to learn about how this feature works, how it can help significantly improve your sites' Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), or how referrer websites can help their users achieve their goals by speeding up cross-site navigations. # How Private…  ( 5 min )

# Why does page load speed matter? Most users routinely identify slow page loads as a major source of frustration (54% in a user study conducted by Google). So, it should not come as a surprise that faster page loads result in better outcomes for a business. Indeed, if visitors get frustrated even before they interact with a website, it's very unlikely that they will stay long enough to appreciate its value. In fact, another Google study across 254 eCommerce, finance, and travel sites showed that sites which load in two seconds or less had 15% higher conversion rates. # Speeding up Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) As the saying goes, you can't improve what you don't measure. For user experiences on the web, we believe that Core Web Vitals constitute a solid set of user-centric metrics design…  ( 5 min )

A climate-fiction story about mundane apocalypses.  ( 16 min )

Starting with a single word or short prompt from an editor or brand, Victo Ngai (previously) imagines fantastical dreamscapes brimming with surreal details. The Los Angeles-based, Hong Kong-born illustrator collaborates on commissioned projects that, although intended to be paired with an article or advertisement, become visual narratives in their own right. She shapes a tiger from coiled red ribbons, places an enormous hound among a nighttime cityscape veiled in shades of blue, and reinterprets the sun and its rays as a colorful, segmented circle hovering above the horizon. More  ( 2 min )

Through ballpoint pen drawings and hazy oil paintings, Mexican-American artist Nicolas V. Sanchez (previously) conjures childhood memories, instances of intimacy, and a sense of yearning. Sanchez, whose works vacillate between the incredibly realistic and the dreamlike fog associated with recollection, finds his subject matter in the unassuming and every day. He fixates on the texture of a horse’s short coat and wrinkled neck, the way sleeping children hang their limbs haphazardly off the edge of a couch, and how sunlight permeates sheer curtains scrunched together on a rod. More  ( 2 min )

Hidden under a lush canopy of vegetation on Paris’s Left Bank is a minimal, mesh-like structure housing a healthcare center, restaurant, and hotel. The project of the French-Brazilian Triptyque Architecture in collaboration with the Coloco landscaping studio, “Villa M” is a mixed-used building cloaked in a vertical garden that ascends from the sidewalk to the rooftop bar. Foliage and vines trail down from the hotel room balconies and sprout from planters embedded in the facade, establishing a verdant environment spanning 8,000 square meters in the middle of the busy Montparnasse. More  ( 2 min )

Cable companies survived the great unbundling thanks to selling Internet service; they may be best place to make the bundle of the future.  ( 13 min )

Today at 3pm US Eastern, I’ll be joining Ben Myers on the Some Antics live stream to build a Monsters, Inc inspired find-the-monster game. If you want to join us and follow along, click here to get the details.

i´m Yeye Weller. i work and live as an illustrator in Munster , Germany. i like colors, soccer and the sidecar cocktail. i don’t have a smart message or a device for freedom, my illustrations come as they are: happy, colorful and bright.  ( 4 min )

By now, you are probably familiar with one or more programming languages. But have you ever wondered how you could create your own programming language? And by that, I mean: A programming language is any set of rules that convert … Let’s Create a Tiny Programming Language originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 6 min )

It’s no secret that SVGs are super powerful, and yet, they still manage to surprise. Have you ever considered using SVG’s internal coordinate system to create a responsive image grid, for example, or adding texture to an SVG? In this post, we’ll look into some magical SVG techniques that open up new possibilities.  ( 8 min )

Interested in helping improve DevTools? Sign up to participate in Google User Research here. # Preview feature: New Performance insights panel Use the Performance insights panel to get actionable and use-case-driven insights on your website's performance. Open the panel and start a new recording based on your use case. For example, let’s measure the page load of this demo page. Once the recording is complete, you get the performance insights on the Insights pane. Click on each insight item (for example, Render blocking request, layout shift) to understand the issue and potential fixes. Go to the Performance insights panel documentation to learn more with the step-by-step tutorial. This is a preview feature to help web developers (especially non-performance experts) to identify and fix pot…  ( 11 min )

Interested in helping improve DevTools? Sign up to participate in Google User Research here. At Chrome Dev Summit 2020, we demoed Chrome's debugging support for WebAssembly applications on the web for the first time. Since then, the team has invested a lot of energy into making the developer experience scale for large and even huge applications. In this post we will show you the knobs we added (or made work) in the different tools and how to use them! # Scalable debugging Let's pick up where we left off in our 2020 post. Here is the example we were looking at back then: #include #include int main() { // Init SDL. int width = 600, height = 600; SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO); SDL_Window* window; SDL_Renderer* renderer; SDL_CreateWindowAndRenderer(width, height, …  ( 7 min )

Last week, Šime Vidas complained on Twitter that it is hard to paste a block of text on a mobile device. I proposed to use pastebin.com but that needs a lot of taps before you paste. Šime then proceeded to joke that we should create pastebinzero.com and all it needs is a full-screen. So I […]  ( 3 min )

Since launching in 2016, .ART has become a popular extension for creatives and is among the top five fastest-growing domains—all through organic growth and remarkably high renewal rates. A website on .ART can be anything: an online portfolio, a point of entry for all of your social media accounts, a revenue-generating marketplace, or even a cool name for your NFT. Its community of more than 200,000 users includes creative organizations, individual personalities, and industry giants like the Louvre, Marina Abramovic Institute, LACMA, ICA London, Amazon, Bank of America, Mercedes, Pixar, Kickstarter, Vivienne Westwood, and many others. More  ( 3 min )

“I think my art is at its best when it’s subconscious-driven,” says Mark Jenkins. Veering from the witty and absurd to the disorienting and bizarre, Jenkins’ body of work confronts perceptions of reality through the surreal: a life-sized figure climbs a fire escape upside down, limp legs hang from a dumpster, and toast springs up from a sewer grate. Whether installed in alleys and urban areas or within the stark, white space of a gallery, Jenkins’ sculptures are theatrical and logic-defying, and each piece mimics “life to the point where it becomes real, to me,” he shares. More  ( 2 min )

Oxford-based artist Tach Pollard (previously) allows the sinuous shapes of hawthorn or oak branches to guide the forms of his fantastical figures. The lanky creatures stand on long limbs with hunched shoulders and bowed backs, features determined by the original curve of the wood. Based on legends like the Norse Eddas, The Mabinogion, and the Icelandic Sagas, the sculptures are mysterious and minimal—Pollard tends to leave the natural color and grain of the material intact for their faces and burns the remainder to obtain the deep, black char that envelops their figures. More  ( 2 min )

From chunky hair beads and rollers to sink strainers and brake pedals, Nairobi-based photographer Thandiwe Muriu (previously) finds fashionable use for ordinary objects. Worn as glasses that obscure a subject’s identity, the repurposed items add cultural flair to Muriu’s vibrant portraits and are connected to both her background and Kenyan life, more broadly. Red fringe evokes the tassel that hung from her uncle’s Toyota Corolla, which transported the artist home from school each day, while the orange plastic drain catcher references the joy found in sharing chores. More  ( 2 min )

AVIF (AV1 Image File Format) is a modern image file format specification for storing images that offer a much more significant file reduction when compared to other formats like JPG, JPEG, PNG, and WebP. Version 1.0.0 of the AVIF specification … Useful Tools for Creating AVIF Images originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 3 min )

About a month ago, I bought a camper, and just got back from a 3-week road trip from Massachusetts down to the Florida and back. After two years of pretty extreme social distancing, we needed to get away for a bit, and this was the only way we really feel safe traveling at the moment. (If you were wondering why I hadn’t published any new articles for a while, that’s why.  ( 2 min )

One principle I’ve come to embrace is that the answer is rarely ever a spectrum. At first glance, a single-axis spectrum might make perfect sense, a reduction of the problem, a right and a left, a binary dichotomy but with a grey area in the middle. But as I grow older a spectrum falls short for me in a couple different dimensions. Take color for instance. As kids we learned about the ROYGBIV visible spectrum of light, the zone between infrared light and ultraviolet light that most of us humans can see. The rainbow, a naturally occurring ubiquitous concept. Children love rainbows. A light spectrum makes for a great science experiment or album cover. All the hues of visible light rolled into one gradient stripe. In design tools the different hues are often represented in a 360º color wheel…  ( 3 min )

At the end of 2021, the Chrome team shipped some functionality that has the ability to make or break sites meeting the Core Web Vitals. So, let’s learn a little bit more about the Back/Forward Cache (aka bfcache), and what you can do to test if your website is compatible with it.  ( 12 min )

The web platform now ships with Capture Handle, a mechanism that helps collaboration between capturing and captured web apps. Capture Handle allows a capturing web app to ergonomically and confidently identify the captured web app. (If the captured web app has opted-in.) A few examples illustrate the benefits. Example 1: If a video conferencing web app is capturing a presentation web app, the video conferencing web app can expose controls to the user for navigating between slides. Because the controls are embedded directly in the video conferencing web app, the user doesn’t have to repeatedly switch between the video conferencing tab and the presented tab. With this burden lifted, the user is now free to concentrate more fully on the delivery of their presentation. Example 2: The "hall of …  ( 4 min )

Over the years, Chrome has been adding new capabilities to the web, such as File System Access and WebTransport, and has made further investments in technologies like WebAssembly. The web is now more capable than ever, enabling developers to bring to the web highly capable applications such as Photoshop. Though the Chrome team has been working hard to build new capabilities, we're responsible for only a small fraction of the work. Web app developers depend on countless others in the community who have built a strong ecosystem of APIs, tools, demonstration apps, and other materials. To help recognize the importance of this work and to enable more people to spend time on these projects, we're thrilled to announce today the launch of the Advanced Web Apps Fund: a new fund to support the web a…  ( 2 min )

Daily notes as a frictionless default input for personal knowledge management systems  ( 3 min )

Compositionality is the principle that a system should be designed by composing together smaller subsystems, and reasoning about the system should be done recursively on its structure.

Hey, this week’s links are quite interesting: A couple of web standard (proposals) that would make CSS easier again like CSS Toggles, easy progressive enhancement for form data using the web platform. But also things like a huge list of JavaScript concepts to enhance your knowledge, or simple multi-select fields without a UI library. And then, self-hosted apps seem to become more popular again as rally or planby, two open source planning/meeting/schedule tools show us. It’s always fun to collect the links for my newsletter and shows how diverse web development is. And finally, the tips from Kevin Kelly on how to see and live life are a great inspiration to become a calmer, nicer and more focused person valued in a community. Generic Taylor Hunt says I’m not smart enough for a SPA and bring…  ( 3 min )

Curled tentacles, soft spikes, and an unusually large, translucent bell distinguish a newly discovered species of jellyfish. The uncommon A. Reynoldsi became the subject of study for scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (previously) earlier this year when one of the deep-sea creatures was documented floating through the midnight zone. “Fifteen years ago, MBARI researchers spotted a large jelly that looked like Atolla but lacked the telltale trailing tentacle, and their curiosity was piqued,” MBARI says. More  ( 2 min )

Argentinian-Spanish artist Felipe Pantone (previously) magnifies the prismatic principles that ground his Subtractive Variability series to a phenomenal scale in the newly installed “Quick Tide.” Whether working in kinetic sculpture or large-scale murals, Pantone investigates the vast realm of color theory and its bottomless potential, in this instance transforming the cyan, magenta, and yellow model into a dynamic display. “The idea of creating a system in which I can create endless color combinations within the visible color spectrum by simply rotating or displacing the same image over and over (in C, M, Y)… the results are always random, unexpected, yet always interesting for me,” Pantone tells Colossal. More  ( 2 min )

In the Yucatán Peninsula, the rich wetland environment of the Ría Lagartos Biosphere Reserve is one of the most important sites for flamingos. The pink-pigmented birds flock to the area for breeding each year, with officials registering approximately 15,000 nests and 30,000 adults inhabiting the area in 2021 alone. A biologist by training, photographer Claudio Contreras Koob has spent years visiting the lanky, big-beaked avians in the reserve and documenting their mannerisms and habits, amassing a broad collection of images now compiled in a book published by teNeues Verla in collaboration with the Nature Picture Library. More  ( 3 min )

Let’s say you have a website built on a platform that excels at design and it’s available at example.com. But that platform falls short at blogging. So you think to yourself, “What if I could use a different blogging … How to Serve a Subdomain as a Subdirectory originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 7 min )

This is the second entry of three where I go over what I learned from the user research I’ve been doing for Colophon Cards. My oldest notebook The post where I outline my general theory of notetaking for all to disagree with At the end of my last post, I mentioned that I had switched to pen and paper notetaking in the early 2010s, after years of serious digital notetaking using plain text files. I wrote about how much more enjoyable the analogue notetaking was but what I didn’t mention was why I abandoned my plain text system. Nor did I write about my first foray into serious notetaking. The notebook above, from 1994, is the oldest notebook of mine I’ve found. It’s the first proper notebook I kept. It wasn’t a journal, sketchbook, drafts, or workbook for school. Just notes. And it petere…  ( 23 min )

This is the only photo I have of my old Mac Performa. Taken when I was moving out of student housing at the University of Iceland, hence the empty shelves. A prologue, of sorts I can’t remember when I first started to use plain text files for my notes and other writing. It would have been some time after 1995 when I was 18 and had recently spent the money I’d earned on my part-time job on a down payment for a Mac Performa. (I was paying for that computer for years afterwards.) That computer was an upgrade from my old Mac SE and in many ways, a major improvement: Colour! Thousands of them, even. So nice. Multi-tasking. Also great. More than one app running at a time? Sign me up. More storage. An option for a built-in modem. Hello, Internet! But, and this is where the story begins to sound …  ( 19 min )

Let’s explore how to give and receive better feedback when working remotely — feedback that is actionable, specific, kind, and that won’t set you on edge. We’ll start by explaining when feedback sessions don’t work and how to prevent it.  ( 10 min )

A deep-dive into the new CSS subgrid feature with real-life examples and use-cases.  ( 6 min )

A deep-dive into the new CSS subgrid feature with real-life examples and use-cases.  ( 6 min )

A new series of paintings by New Hampshire-based artist Shawn Huckins (previously) proposes thinking about how we wear clothing and textiles in a fresh light. Dirty Laundry continues the artist’s interest in re-interpreting 18th- and 19th-Century European portraiture, an artistic tradition steeped in symbolism and subtle commentary about wealth and class. The garments donned by the subjects of painters like John Singleton Copley or Adriaen van der Werff reflected their status and sense of self through apparel and accessories. More  ( 3 min )

Like many Korean families, artist Ema Shin’s relatives maintain a genealogy book called a jokbo, which illustrates their family tree. Shin’s ancestral record spans 32 generations, yet only male members of the family are represented. Born and raised in Japan, and currently based in Melbourne, Australia, the artist describes in a recent statement that “in the society that I was born and raised in, there was a prejudice between men and women, and their roles were predetermined. More  ( 2 min )

How do we get from where we are to where we want to be with all of these constructs in the way? How do we move forward if we are constantly having to fight back? The past rolls in like a fog and clogs conversations about tomorrow with despair. April Bey, a Black, queer, mixed-media artist, reminds us that sometimes, in order to get free, we must transcend. Positioning herself within the Afro-futurist tradition, she works with a fictional universe called Atlantica. More  ( 3 min )

Daniel is a multidisciplinary designer with a focus on Product Design & 3D Visualization. Based in Cape Town, South Africa, currently leading design on mobile for GoDaddy Studio.  ( 4 min )

The V2 version of the Microsoft Edge DevTools for Visual Studio Code extension is now live. We’ve worked hard to make the current feature set more stable and introduced new ones. Console integration Console Integration – makes it easier to use `console.log()` or interact with the document right from the developer tools. We found the […]  ( 3 min )

[Array Builder] * Scrollex * Grid Tile Patterns * RemixPress * Just Join IT The post Collective #710 appeared first on Codrops.  ( 4 min )

When deploying websites, there’s rarely a one-size-fits-all solution. Some websites benefit from server-rendered pages, some prefer statically generating content upfront. In this article, Stefan explains how a CMS such as [Storyblok](link) can help you make your site more resilient without losing the flexibility to deliver time-relevant content.  ( 10 min )

Long time readers of the blog will know I’m a fan of esoteric content delivery protocols. While compulsively checking for updates on my Playdate (a small, yellow, Gameboy-like device with a crank) and I came across this tweet: When Playdate shipped, Panic co-founder Steven wrote a little about what it meant to him. And in the spirit of doing things differently, posted it to a Gopher (!) site. If you're up for it, find it here: gopher://stevenf.com:70/0/journal/2022/04/18/first-playdates-shipping.txt — Playdate (@playdate) April 29, 2022 A gopher:// site in the year 2022!? Minutes prior I was reading a Polygon piece about Playdate’s 8-year process behind the crank and I needed more Playdate development stories. Now I find out the co-founder of Panic has a non-http gopher site where he bl…  ( 2 min )

From a shy baby fox to toads donning crowns, the felted miniatures crafted by Simon Brown and Katie Corrigan are adorable, whimsical renditions of forest creatures. The Northumbria, U.K.-based creative duo transforms thick rovings of wool into wildlife that can be found perching on a snowy branch or creeping up on a mouse through the grass-like bristles of a wooden brush. Brown tells Colossal that he plans to incorporate more found objects into the newer sculptures, which are increasingly illustrative in style, and is also working on developing automata to add a liveliness to the realistic characters. More  ( 2 min )

Artist Anne Butler cites the porcelain pieces that comprise her ongoing Objects of Time series as being “witness to their own history.” From her studio in Carryduff, Butler recreates 20th Century technologies like rotary telephones and typewriters through an array of techniques from casting and carving to assembly—watch her process in the video below. Brimming with texture and striking in dimension, the analog works explore cultural memory, associations to history and personal use, and the impressions these items have left on the world long after they’ve fallen from widespread use. More  ( 2 min )

San Francisco-based artist Rebecca Szeto (previously) applies a heavy dose of social commentary to her ongoing Paintbrush Portraits. Through whittled busts and oil-based figurative renderings, Szeto alludes to a wide array of historical moments, significant figures, and issues that continue to impact the world today. She transforms the used tools with hard bristles and stained ferrules—she’s committed to an ecologically-conscious practice that repurposes materials already available—into poetic works that are subversive and metaphorical. More  ( 2 min )

So, you’ve decided to build a blog with Next.js. Like any dev blogger, you’d like to have code snippets in your posts that are formatted nicely with syntax highlighting. Perhaps you also want to display line numbers in the … Syntax Highlighting (and More!) With Prism on a Static Site originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 9 min )

How difficult can it be to design a bulletproof language selector? It’s not as straightforward as one might think. We need to avoid redirects, decouple our language and country presets, allow for overrides, and use non-modal windows. Let’s dive in!  ( 20 min )

A special selection of the most creative websites with the finest designs from the past couple of weeks. The post Inspirational Websites Roundup #37 appeared first on Codrops.  ( 3 min )

The Miles Brothers were cinematic trailblazers, who, in 1906, filmed the historic “A Trip Down Market Street.” Traveling from 8th Street to the Embarcadero, the 13-minute journey documents San Francisco’s environment from the perspective of a cable car, showing the busy strip full of horse-drawn carriages and vehicles alongside the buildings and fashions of the time. What makes the black-and-white footage particularly notable is that it captures the city mere days before that same landscape underwent a massive transformation. More  ( 2 min )

“To be sovereign is to not be subject to another’s authority, another’s desires, or another’s gaze but rather to be the author of one’s own history.” This conviction founds Simone Leigh: Sovereignty, the artist’s new body of work created for the U.S. Pavilion of the 2022 Venice Biennale. Leigh is the first Black woman to be awarded the prestigious commission. Comprised of towering bronze works and ceramics, the exhibition continues Leigh’s questions about self-determination, historical erasure, and Black femme subjectivity. More  ( 3 min )

Immersed in dreamlike surroundings, figures interact with nature and participate in enigmatic rituals in embroideries by Michelle Kingdom (previously). The Los Angeles-based artist continues to explore what she describes as “psychological landscapes,” portraying a diverse range of figures in ambiguous activities and settings that are intricately composed from thread. Drawing on the rich traditions of needlework, she takes a more freeform approach to the medium in which stitching becomes a tool for sketching, honoring its history while subtly subverting convention. More  ( 2 min )

Every month, Colossal shares a selection of opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. If you’d like to list an opportunity here, please get in touch at hello@colossal.art. You can also join our monthly Opportunities Newsletter.   Open Calls The Latinx Project Open Call for Curatorial Proposals More  ( 5 min )

April was a busy month of new happenings and finishing projects. I did a new workshop, we got a new lawn, my kids are learning new skills, my wife got a new (short term) job, new developments at my new company, a new blog design, and to cap it all off I turned a new age number which is for sure what people call having a birthday. A new lawn My wife and I have wanted to redo the yard for awhile now. In Austin it’s hard to find people to do the work. We even offered someone an obscene amount of money to help us and they didn’t even call us back. Then our neighbor Jim said he was getting his bushes replaced by a guy named José. We asked José, not expecting to hear back, and he said he could start that week. Surprise remodeling project! Setting the landscape (heh), while the existing landscap…  ( 6 min )

If you’ve spent time looking at open-source repos on GitHub, you’ve probably noticed that most of them use badges in their README files. Take the official React repository, for instance. There are GitHub badges all over the README file that communicate important dynamic info, like the latest released … Adding Custom GitHub Badges to Your Repo originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 6 min )

Luzi grew up in the Swiss Alps, runs his typefoundry and designs typefaces.  ( 3 min )

Developers often reach for UI frameworks like Bootstrap or Material UI, hoping that they’ll save a bunch of time and quickly build a professional-looking app. Unfortunately, things rarely work out this way. Let’s talk about it.  ( 10 min )

An intro animation concept with an initial loader and an intro screen that animates to a new layout using various effects. The post Image Trail Animation for an Intro appeared first on Codrops.  ( 3 min )

Here's what you need to know: The hwb() color notation gives you a new way to specify color according to hue, whiteness, and blackness. Priority Hints give you a way to hint to the browser in which order resources should be downloaded. And there's plenty more. Let's take a look at what's available in Chrome 101. # hwb() color notation Described in an article by Stefan Judis as a "color notation for humans", hwb() specifies color according to hue, whiteness, and blackness. As with other color notations, an optional alpha component specifies opacity. h1 { color: hwb(194 0% 0% / .5) /* #00c3ff with 50% opacity */ } This method of specifying color is now well-supported, with Firefox supporting it from version 96, and Safari from version 15. # Priority Hints Priority Hints give you a way to h…  ( 2 min )

Safari Technology Preview Release 144 is now available for download for macOS Big Sur and of macOS Monterey.  ( 2 min )

Suspended from gallery ceilings or strung across an open courtyard, innumerable lengths of yarn comprise the chromatic installations by artist Eric Rieger, aka HOTTEA (previously). He arranges the soft textiles in concentric circles or wide gradients that stretch from wall to wall, creating vibrant fields of color that shift in composition depending on the perspective. Most reflect the artist’s memories or experiences, and in recent years, he’s installed site-specific pieces in cities like Minneapolis, Houston, and Miami. More  ( 2 min )

Alongside an eccentric metallic menagerie, artist Barbara Franc stitches shaggy hounds with frayed fur and coats layered with assorted patches of prints. The fabric creatures are part of Franc’s collection of animals constructed with repurposed materials that range from buttons and vintage tapestries to windshield wipers and cutlery. To create these soft sculptures, she wraps scraps of worn trousers, curtains, and scarves around a padded, wire armature, defining a muscular hind leg with tweed or a stomach with an embroidered fairytale scene. More  ( 2 min )

This summer, Rhode Island School of Design Continuing Education is thrilled to resume in-person instruction on RISD’s campus for adults, teens, and middle school students. You can also enjoy the flexibility and convenience of learning online from wherever you are. All in-person programs will follow the RISD COVID Plan as it evolves. RISD CE adult online courses offer students a wide range of classes for all skill levels and can be taken at any time of day or night. More  ( 2 min )

A sense of confinement pervades Kylli Sparre’s most recent photographic works, which center on figures trapped in clear vessels, encircled by narrow pools, or enclosed in empty concrete rooms. These surreal, claustrophobic images depart from Sparre’s otherwise energetic shots that tend to position women and young girls in motion, whether leaping in the air or sprinting through a house trailed by a swath of white fabric. The Tallinn, Estonia-based fine art photographer (previously) tells Colossal that the recurring theme of physically constraining her subjects was unintentional and likely informed by the limitations of the last few years. More  ( 2 min )

In design, reflections are stylized mirror images of objects. Even though they are not as popular as shadows, they have their moments — just think about the first time you explored the different font formats in MS Word or PowerPoint: … Creating Realistic Reflections With CSS originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 3 min )

It's been a while since I've written anything due to some personal concerns that I might write about later, but don't worry, I'm still…  ( 8 min )

Illustrated notes on the Building A Second Brain course

Let’s welcome May with a new collection of wallpapers. Designed with love by artists and designers from across the globe, they come in versions with and without a calendar for May 2022.  ( 8 min )

Wikilinks come to Subconscious. Also *bold*, _italic_, `code`.

Selected as one of ten projects for the International Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival, João Gonzalez’s “Ice Merchants” is a frigid and precarious tale about a father and son. As the title suggests, the pair sells the frozen material, although to reach the market in the village below, they have to grab their parachutes and leap from their cliff-side home each day. Gonzalez, who also performed and composed the accompanying soundtrack, created “Ice Merchants” in a minimal style similar to his award-winning “Nestor” and “The Voyagers.” He shares about the new film in a statement: “Something that has always fascinated me about animation cinema is the freedom it offers us to create something from scratch. More  ( 2 min )

Los Angeles-based artist Seth Armstrong (previously) gravitates toward saturated palettes of greens and blues to render the steep, hilly landscapes of his hometown. Evening sunsets bathe the staggered houses, trees, and sloping streets in a warm glow, adding a tinge of magic to the densely populated neighborhoods. Balancing light with shadow and hyperrealism with more ethereal details, the oil-based works, while similar in composition and subject matter, rarely follow the same process, Armstrong shares. More  ( 2 min )

Howdy y’all! Unless you’ve been living under a rock (and maybe even then), you’ve undoubtedly heard the news that CSS-Tricks, was acquired by DigitalOcean. Congratulations to everyone! 🥳 As a little hurrah to commemorate the occasion, I wanted to … Creating the DigitalOcean Logo in 3D With CSS originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 10 min )

Introducing Partytown, a lightweight open-source solution that reduces execution delays due to third-party JavaScript by offloading third-party scripts to web workers, which run in background threads.  ( 7 min )

On seeing tools for thought through a historical and anthropological lens  ( 2 min )

A profound sense of curiosity and a search for answers consumes Chiharu Shiota’s practice. The Osaka-born, Berlin-based artist is known for her massive installations that crisscross and intertwine string into mesh-like labyrinths. Simultaneously dense in construction and delicate and airy, the site-specific works rely on negative space and a recurring theme of “absence in existence,” Shiota tells Louisiana Channel in a new interview. Chronicling the artist’s evolution and surveying her works across decades, the short film visits her Berlin studio, where a suspended boat hangs from the ceiling and Shiota shares some childhood paintings. More  ( 2 min )

Splashes of primary colors enhance the dotted lines and angular forms that compose Expanded Eye’s tattoos. Artists Jade Tomlinson and Kev James (previously) are behind the distinctly geometric designs that pair foliage and natural matter with architectural constructions and figures: single hands extend with delicate gestures, fragmented faces open to unveil inner dimensions, and stripes, chevrons, and other patterns fill structural elements. The ink-based works are poetic and surreal, with each composition rooted in narratives of consciousness, relationships, and universal human emotions like grief and joy. More  ( 2 min )

Within the confines of a tiny jewelry box, Canadian-Trinidadian artist Curtis Talwst Santiago (previously) nestles miniature scenes imbued with in-depth narratives of home and intimacy, diasporic identity, and memory. The elaborately built dioramas are part of Santiago’s ongoing Infinity Series, which he began in 2008 and has since expanded to include dozens of pieces replete with lush foliage, architectural features, and minuscule figures preserved in time. In recent years, the artist has referenced his childhood and family life in the mixed-media works, including in the “Soca in the Suburbs” collection that incorporates replicas of his parents’ basement complete with thick shag carpeting and a distinctly ’70s aesthetic. More  ( 3 min )

CSS Toggles Explainer & Proposal * HyperUI * Web color is still broken * Progressively Enhanced Builds The post Collective #709 appeared first on Codrops.  ( 4 min )

The latest Common Voice dataset, released today, has achieved a major milestone: More than 20,000 hours of open-source speech data that anyone, anywhere can use. The dataset has nearly doubled in the past year. Mozilla’s Common Voice seeks to change the language technology ecosystem by supporting communities to collect voice data for the creation of voice-enabled applications for their own languages. The post Common Voice dataset tops 20,000 hours appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.  ( 2 min )

Almost a month ago, we announced MDN Plus, a new premium service on MDN that allows users to customize their experience on the website. We are very glad to announce today that it is now possible for MDN users around the globe to create an MDN Plus free account, no matter where they are. The post MDN Plus now available in more markets appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.  ( 1 min )

In my last article, we went over how to set up a web app that serves chunks and bundles of CSS and JavaScript from CloudFront. We integrated it into Vite so that when the app runs in a browser, … Setting Up CloudFront to Host Your Web App originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 10 min )

Carlos Kun is a designer and art director, co-founder of Twoo, an independent design studio based in Barcelona working worldwide.  ( 4 min )

Check the details of the design process on brand identity, web, and mobile UX design for the fintech service Crezco whose aim is to help small businesses grow easier.  ( 8 min )

.gradient-start stop { stop-color: var(--accent, #2451f5);} .gradient-start stop[offset="0"] { stop-opacity: 0.35; } .gradient-start stop[offset="1"] { stop-opacity: 0; } For the last 3 years, I’ve been running both client-side analytics and server-side analytics on my site and I’ve noticed some alarming discrepancies. I thought I was alone until Jim Nielsen posted his comparison Comparing Data in Google and Netlify Analytics. My data story and Jim’s data story end up similar (we’re both popular in Germany?); a situation where the more data you have, the less the data seems true. The data Here’s my data from Mar 25th, 2022 ~ April 25th, 2022. The data collection methods differ like so: Fathom is a client-side script served from a self-hosted, first-party subdomain (stats.d…  ( 4 min )

In this article, Nathan Smith explains how to create modal dialog windows with rich interaction that will only require authoring HTML in order to be used. They are based on Web Components that are currently supported by every major browser.  ( 16 min )

The inert property is a global HTML attribute that simplifies how to remove and restore user input events for an element, including focus events and events from assistive technologies. Inert is a default behavior in dialog elements, such as when you use showModal to open a dialog for users to make a selection and then dismiss it from the screen. In new browser versions, the inert attribute is available to bring similar accessible experiences to custom UI elements and interactions more granularly. In Chromium 102, inert is available by default for developers. Inert means lacking the ability to move, so when you mark something inert, you remove movement or interaction from those DOM elements. Button 1 I am not inert …  ( 3 min )

Collapsing content sections, sometimes described as an accordion, are a common UI pattern. However, content hidden in the collapsed sections becomes impossible to search using a find-in-page search. Also, it isn't possible to link to text fragments inside collapsed regions. The hidden=until-found HTML attribute and beforematch event can solve these problems. By adding hidden=until-found to the container for your hidden content, you make it possible for the browser to search text in that hidden region, and reveal the section if a match is found. In addition to allowing find-in-page search on hidden regions, this feature will allow this hidden content to be accessible to search engines. Google Search will even form links that scroll to the revealed fragment. These features are available from…  ( 2 min )

Erupting from floors, doorways, and furniture, artist Henrique Oliveira’s artworks (previously) are a remarkable comment on the relationship between the built environment and the power of nature. In installations that explore the relationship between reality and otherworldly spectacle, enormous wooden limbs and vine-like forms emerge from walls and ceilings that have been cracked, broken, and twisted around the emerging growth, unable to contain it. Oliveira uses various readymade and organic materials such as bricks, wood, PVC, tree branches, mud, and other found items. More  ( 2 min )

Chaotic masses of rounded shapes morph into insects, animals, and other organic lifeforms in a new animation by Hideki Inaba, aka kanahebi (previously). Drawing on the inevitability of change, “FLOW” opens with a small cluster of matter that swirls into a diatom-like disk. The digital renderings expand in size, form, and density throughout the short film as they contort into increasingly complex creatures from beetles and butterflies to birds and sweeping, radial motifs containing multiple species. More  ( 2 min )

In 2008, artist Kehinde Wiley (previously) exposed the violence against Black bodies in a series of majestic portraits titled DOWN. Holbein’s painting “The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb,” which depicts an emaciated Jesus outstretched on white cloth, inspired Wiley’s collection that reimagined the 16th Century piece and other art historical works in the same vein with contemporary metaphors of pain and ecstasy. More  ( 3 min )

A while ago, Geoff wrote an article about a cool hover effect. The effect relies on a combination of CSS pseudo-elements, transforms, and transitions. A lot of comments have shown that the same effect can be done using background … Cool Hover Effects That Use Background Properties originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 11 min )

The next frontier of platform capitalism is carbon management.  ( 13 min )

We should be able to measure how well a particular design solves a particular problem. Let’s explore design KPIs that capture user’s experience, how to measure them and how to keep both users and business stakeholders happy, over time.  ( 5 min )

For artist Estelle Chrétien, the expansive lawns, fields, and wooded ravines around her home in Nancy, France, and other parts of Europe become sites of mischievous mixed-media interventions. Through a playful approach that she refers to as gauillant, akin to the feeling of playing in the mud or jumping in puddles, the works develop through chance encounters with the landscape and objects within it. Displayed in an “open-air” exhibition style, her pieces can be encountered by viewers in a similar way, with the potential to surprise and delight. More  ( 2 min )

For artist Estelle Chrétrien, the expansive lawns, fields, and wooded ravines around her home in Nancy, France and other parts of Europe become sites of mischievous mixed media interventions. Through a playful approach she refers to as gauillant, akin to the feeling of playing in the mud or jumping in puddles, the works develop through chance encounters with the landscape and objects within it. Displayed in an “open-air” exhibition style, her pieces can be encountered by viewers in a similar way, with the potential to surprise and delight. More  ( 2 min )

Millions of tourists stream through the hallowed halls of Vatican City to see one of Western art history’s most treasured artworks: Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel. Gazing up 44 feet from the floor, visitors witness dramatic biblical scenes unfold throughout the monumental painting as it sprawls across the expansive architecture. The only drawback of looking up at such a height is that it’s difficult to discern smaller features and subtleties. The Sistine Chapel, a massive three-volume tome published by Callaway Arts and Entertainment and Italy’s Scripta Maneant, is dedicated to the details and presents up-close 1:1 scale images of the artist’s seminal painting in a limited-edition book. More  ( 2 min )

Learn how the inert attribute provides an efficient way to hide elements from assistive technology and disable element interactions such as being focused, clicked, edited, or selected.  ( 3 min )

A selection of the most popular and flexible multipurpose WordPress themes for building almost any type of website. The post 8 Multipurpose WordPress Themes to Use in 2022 appeared first on Codrops.  ( 6 min )

When creating a component-based, front-end infrastructure, one of the biggest pain points I’ve personally encountered is making components that are both reusable and responsive when there are nested components within components. Take the following “call to action” (… Avoiding the Pitfalls of Nested Components in a Design System originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 7 min )

Caleb Worcester is a Kansas City based Illustrator and Animator. His work combines traditional and 3D artforms to create compositions that pop off the page and screen.  ( 3 min )

When bad UX has lingered in a product for so long, it can feel like a mountain to overcome. In this article, Ceara Crawshaw shares her advice on how you can invoke joy and assure the quality in the work done on product teams.  ( 13 min )

I got some landscaping done this month and as a reward the YouTube algorithm brought me a new genre of video called “Tall Grass”. These are the lawns with shoulder high grass, filled with mice and snakes, endlessly consuming buildings, fences, and concrete. It’s complete and utter ASMR for me. My favorite among them is Al Bladez. Al and his best friend AJ take one day a week and offer to mow someone-in-need’s yard for free. To be clear, there’s an economy here, the homeowner gets their yard mowed and Al gets a YouTube video out of the deal which garners a million views. But the homeowners — and more often than not, the neighbors — are incredibly thankful to see the transformations. The circumstances differ from yard to yard. Sometimes the homeowner is elderly, ailing, deceased, or in the hospital; unable or unfit to mow their lawn. In those situations Al’s work is a simple act of charity. Sometimes, the homeowner is perfectly able but hasn’t mowed their lawn. What I love about Al is that he doesn’t show an ounce of judgement. Al doesn’t care if you’ve been in jail, or if you’re too poor, your mower broke, you’re unemployed, you’re struggling with addiction, or you’re just plain lazy. He’s there to cut grass — tall grass — and bring a bit of pride back to his community and hopefully help people dodge citations from the city. To top it off, Al’s personal slogan is “Impact Over Views” and whew, that’s a lot to think about. I love that outlook and wish I could embody it more. Whatever religion Al is peddling, I want to be a part of it.  ( 1 min )

Howdy! If you frequent this website often, you’ll notice some changes. This weekend I started on my planned redesign, but as I started nudging my About section, I found myself in a fight with my typography. After some hemming and hawing, I made the drastic decision to nuke my stylesheets and start over. ~81 file changes later, I made another decision to yeet my changes live and do an open redesign. Not my original plan, but it’ll be good blog fodder. One thing I want to avoid is killing blogging momentum by getting sunk in a redesign branch. Without further ado, as with any redesign, let’s see what we’re dealing with first… Website feature inventory Here’s a list of all the features on my little website that I maintain: 330+ blog posts Art-directed posts with custom CSS, JavaScript, and SV…  ( 3 min )

Well, it looks like Elon Musk is buying Twitter. Pandemonium! Amplifying the angst is the fact that the Twitter is fundamentally feudal. This town square is owned and controlled by a single company, now by a single person. There is lofty talk about democracy and free speech

Shanghai-based production company Linmon Pictures created a lovely logo animation that runs before their films, notable for its use of oil paints. Directed by Lin Zhe, the short features a lone figure who opens a curtain to reveal a brilliant explosion of abstract color that gradually envelopes the frame. The animation was first created in 2D using digital techniques before a team of four fine artists physically hand-painted it frame by frame, not unlike the 2017 film Finding Vincent. More  ( 2 min )

Barcelona-based artist Raya Sader Bujana (previously) defines her work as something between sculpture and illustration, creating impossibly tiny replicas of houseplants that rest atop a finger. From leaves to blooms and thorns to branches, even the delicate woven baskets that contain the plants are constructed from paper with the aid of tweezers and scalpels in a process more akin to surgery than origami. Her background in architecture translates to an exacting quality of “composition, use of color, texture, volume, light and sometimes subject matter,” she shares. More  ( 2 min )

Amazon's new Buy With Prime announced the arrival of Amazon Logistics as a Service, and is a big red flag for Shopify.  ( 9 min )

A look into the making of a mini-city full of post effects and micro-interactions using Three.js. The post Case Study: Windland — An Immersive Three.js Experience appeared first on Codrops.  ( 9 min )

A coding session where you'll learn how to create an interactive scene to claim a tank with sunflowers using Three.js and Polycam. The post Growing Sunflowers with Three.js appeared first on Codrops.  ( 3 min )

In this article, Jhey Tompkins explores putting an impractical whimsical spin on a well-known native element ``.  ( 11 min )

Over the last decade, identity federation has played a central role in raising the bar for authentication on the web, in terms of ease-of-use (such as password-less single sign-in), security (such as improved resistance to phishing and credential stuffing attacks) and trustworthiness compared to per-site usernames and passwords. With identity federation, a RP (relying party) relies on an IDP (identity provider) to provide the user an account without requiring a new username and password. Key Term Identity federation delegates authentication or authorization of an individual (user or entity) to a trusted external party (an identity provider or IdP). The identity provider then allows the individual to sign in to a website (a relying party or RP). Unfortunately, the mechanisms that identity …  ( 11 min )

The Capabilities Project (code name Project Fugu) is a cross-company effort with the objective of making it possible for web apps to do anything platform-specific apps can. We enable amazing web applications like Photoshop by exposing the capabilities of the underlying operating system platforms to the web platform, while maintaining user security, privacy, trust, and other core tenets of the web. But what are examples of some of the apps that make use of these capabilities? The Project Fugu API Showcase embedded below is sourced by community submissions and contains a filterable list of apps that make use of one or more APIs that were developed in the context of the project. You can propose missing apps by submitting them via an anonymous form. Submissions are reviewed on a regular basis and the showcase will be updated accordingly. You can launch each app by clicking the app's name, the app's preview image, or the Launch app link. For many apps, you can also see the source code by clicking Source code. On supporting browsers, you can share any of the listed apps via the Share app feature. As a special inception Easter egg, the Project Fugu API Showcase is of course contained in the Project Fugu API Showcase. Happy browsing!  ( 1 min )

The last time we checked in with filmmaker Vadim Sherbakov he was soaring high above Iceland, capturing stunning aerial views with the help of a drone. In his latest short, Velocity, he zooms into ethereal mixtures of soap, ink, glitter, and alochol that appears to simulate a combination of biological and galactic phenomena. The driving idea behind the film’s creation was simply the idea of “a colorful journey though uncharted cosmos,” says Sherbakov. More  ( 2 min )

Automated front-end tests are awesome. We can write a test with code to visit a page — or load up just a single component — and have that test code click on things or type text like a user would, … Writing Strong Front-end Test Element Locators originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 15 min )

A sight familiar to those who travel along the old roads and by-ways of the North American countryside, an abandoned farmhouse is a touching reminder of changes in the landscape and the people who live there. Based in rural Saskatchewan, artist Heather Benning has spent the last several years making work that explores themes related to the impact of large-scale, industrialized agriculture on local communities, family farms, and a sense of home. In 2007, this took the shape of “The Dollhouse,” a monumental artwork constructed within a dilapidated homestead near the tiny town of Sinclair, Manitoba, that had been empty since the 1960s. More  ( 2 min )

In Looks, artist Derrick Adams references the immense potential of a wig to alter an appearance and construct a persona. The exhibition, which is on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art through May 29 alongside a survey of art and fashion photography titled The New Black Vanguard (opens May 8), shows nine of Adam’s portraits rendered in the artist’s distinct geometric style evocative of “Benin heads, Kwele masks, Kota reliquary figures,” and other West African masks and sculptures, he says in a statement. More  ( 2 min )

In February, I got nerd-sniped by a mention on Twitter about a productivity system called PARA. PARA is a way to organize your digital life in to separate buckets: Projects, Areas, Resources, and Archives. After watching some videos, I started applying PARA to my second brain in Notion. The timing to choose to redo my entire Notion setup was horrible, of course. I was busy with work, writing a workshop, moving ShopTalk to its own YouTube channel… why not pick up another big project and redo my entire organization system? The psychology checks out though. When large tasks loom you don’t feel in control over your schedule and doing something you can control (like organizing your organizer) helps you feel more in control. And it did help. Quantifying the “Projects” I’m committed to over vari…  ( 1 min )

A fresh set of selected motion design shots for your inspiration. The post UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #23 appeared first on Codrops.  ( 3 min )

Have you ever wondered, why do people write CLI tools? When is a good time to think about yours? Today we’ll touch on these questions, along with some tips to remember when creating one. However, all of this serves as a prelude to the real topic: end-to-end testing of CLI tools.  ( 14 min )

Spanning an open-air Taiwanese warehouse to a Cuban theater teeming with vibrant leaves, the sites that Jonathan Jimenez visits are relics of the industries and cultural institutions of the past. The French photographer, who works as Jonk (previously), has cultivated a practice centered on documenting abandoned structures around the globe, many of which have been cloaked in mosses, lush foliage, and even jungle-like vegetation. In his most recent collection, Jonk visits 35 locations in 25 countries and captures the crumbling roofs, peeling facades, and rusted trains in their midst. More  ( 2 min )

At once fantastically imaginative and embedded in tradition, the shimmering piñatas that comprise Roberto Benavidez’s body of work expand the boundaries of the conventionally festive object. The Los Angeles-based artist (previously) cuts skinny, triangular strips of material that he attaches to paper mache forms in the shape of birds, hybrid animals, and otherworldly creatures. His metallic works often address questions of identity—the artist speaks about this further in a Colossal interview—particularly considerations of gender and sexuality through the lens of his layered forms. More  ( 2 min )

Using data transmitted by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, filmmaker Seán Doran edited an incredibly high-resolution timelapse that unveils a rippling, rugged crater on the Red Planet’s dusty surface. Doran stitched together images captured by the spacecraft’s HiRISE camera, creating a short video that appears to set the imprinted, extraterrestrial landscape in motion. The stunning footage is the latest in his archive of stellar composites—watch his mesmerizing works focused on Jupiter and the sun’s evolution—and you can find more on YouTube. More  ( 2 min )

On March 1st, 2022, MDN Web Docs released a new design and a new brand identity. Overall, the community responded to the redesign enthusiastically and we received many positive messages and kudos. We also received valuable feedback on some of the things we didn’t get quite right, like the browser compatibility table changes as well as some accessibility and readability issues. The post Adopting users’ design feedback appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.  ( 4 min )

From concept to code, I work hand-in-hand with developers and designers—juxtaposing the intuitive with the curious to create delightful and engaging experiences for the world wide web.  ( 4 min )

Providing visibility into your work is one of the most underrated developer soft skills. Coworkers are often too busy to keep track of what’s going on with engineering work, even if it’s their job to know what’s going on with engineering work. It’s generally not out of malice or lack of interest, but a lack of time and energy to chase down every issue or conversation thread. And to be fair, engineering is an opaque process where we trick the rocks inside a computer to act like a business. Standups are a great tool for sharing visibility. Unfortunately, not everyone loves standups. I’ve personally experienced some extremely toxic scrum master situations. Impersonal bots can have the same effect. A daily status report can feel like micromangement leading to a loss of autonomy. Also, that vis…  ( 2 min )

JavascriptDB * The Future of CSS: CSS Toggles * Loaders * The Front-End Developer's Guide to the Terminal The post Collective #708 appeared first on Codrops.  ( 4 min )

In UX, we can use navigation queries, evaluation journeys, A-Z index and tap-ahead autocomplete to help users get where they want to be, faster. Let’s find out how.  ( 11 min )

Signed exchanges (SXGs) are a means to improve your page speed—mainly Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). When referring sites (currently Google Search) link to a page, they can prefetch it into the browser cache before the user clicks on the link. It's possible to make web pages that, when prefetched, require no network on the critical path to rendering the page! On a 4G connection, this page load goes from 6s to 0.9s (the remaining 0.9s being mostly by CPU usage): Most people publishing SXGs today are using Cloudflare's easy-to-use Automatic Signed Exchanges (ASX) feature (though open source options exist too): In many cases, checking the box to enable this feature is enough to get the kind of substantial improvement shown above. Sometimes, there are a few more steps to ensure th…  ( 13 min )

A visual metaphor for imperfection and the possibilities of repair, the porcelain sculptures created by Ohio-based artist Glen Taylor (previously) are steeped in contrast. Soldered spikes confront the gilded, floral designs on a stack of teacups, a rusted pair of scissors binds shards of a plate, and wire restrains a concrete hand as it lurches from dinnerware. In his most recent pieces, Taylor also draws on his background in ceramics, creating the witty “Introvert Mug” with the handle strategically placed inside the vessel. More  ( 2 min )

The street theater group known as La Machine revived one of its legendary beasts for an ongoing show in Toulouse. “Long Ma,” an enormous dragon-horse hybrid weighing 45 tons and standing 11 meters tall, was originally unleashed in Beijing in 2014 and now joins a minotaur and gigantic spider for an ongoing exhibition at La Halle in the French city. Each day through May 8, a team of artists animates the mechanical creature, which can be seen trotting, galloping, and rearing upward through the streets while she greets her similarly massive companions. More  ( 2 min )

Armed with polyurethane foam, epoxy resin, and acrylic, artist Dan Lam (previously) sculpts technicolor forms that ooze, bubble, and trickle in long drips. She layers materials into masses of neon color progressions and textured blobs, forming amorphous puddles and mounds with cavernous insides. Lam’s solo show Personal Legend expands the artist’s repertoire to include perfectly round reliefs with concentric gradients. Created by pouring and spreading resin over the foundational shape—head to Lam’s Instagram to dive into the process—the wall-based works are coated in droplets that bead on the surface. More  ( 2 min )

In the 15 or so years since I started making WordPress websites, nothing has had more of an impact on my productivity — and my ability to enjoy front-end development — than adding Tailwind CSS to my workflow (and it … Adding Tailwind CSS to New and Existing WordPress Themes originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 8 min )

A reflection on the rise of the cloud from somebody who experienced it firsthand.  ( 8 min )

Who doesn’t love a good timesaver? In this post, we compiled useful productivity tips and tools that help you speed up routine tasks, enhance your development workflow, and stay organized.  ( 17 min )

A tutorial that explores some hands-on changes of "The Aviator" game to make it more fun and engaging. The post How to Add More Fun to a Game: Extending “The Aviator” appeared first on Codrops.  ( 8 min )

Check the big set of illustrations by tubik artists employing the power of art to spread the painful word on what is going on and ask the world to stand with Ukraine.  ( 12 min )

A palimpsest of history, politics, and art, a short film by Lisbon-based director João Pombeiro is an ode to the Midwest’s largest city and its people. “Chicago” travels across time periods and neighborhoods in a poetic collage of community and culture: cutout photographs of children sit in front of reconstructed streetscapes, animated snippets depict cars from today and decades earlier driving next to each other, and the El runs through the background. More  ( 2 min )

Texas-based Thai artist Parn Aniwat, who also goes by Wood You Mind, hews charming figures from timber, embellished in bright colors and playful outfits. Ranging from about four to eight inches tall, each unique character has a distinct personality, whether it’s a sweet face emerging from an owl costume, a bee sitting in a flower, or a vibrantly striped whale. Using traditional tools like a small hatchet and chisel knife, every piece begins with a rough sketch of the design before the contours and details are revealed by chipping small pieces away. More  ( 2 min )

A brilliantly designed commercial for Mastercard is intended to be as accessible as the product it’s promoting. The project of filmmaker Fredrik Bond in collaboration with branding agency McCann, the advertisement opens with an audio description produced for people who are blind or partially sighted, a feature that overlays the remainder of the work. The ensuing narrative, which is used as an essential storytelling device rather than optional addition, follows the protagonist, Marjorie—played by actress and activist Marilee Talkington—as she leaves her apartment to grab a coffee. More  ( 2 min )

I'm a 3D artist from Dublin, Ireland.  ( 4 min )

In this article, Ekene Eze shares his thoughts about the direction of the web in 2022, and what solutions we can expect to see come up in the ecosystem to significantly improve the Jamstack experience.  ( 6 min )

This post is a part of a series on the Chromium rendering engine. Check out the rest of the series to learn more about RenderingNG, RenderingNG architecture, key data structures, VideoNG, and LayoutNG. Blink refers to Chromium's implementation of the web platform, and it encompasses all the phases of rendering prior to compositing, culminating in compositor commit. You can read more about blink rendering architecture in a previous article in this series. Blink began life as a fork of WebKit, which is itself a fork of KHTML, which dates to 1998. It contains some of the oldest (and most critical) code in Chromium, and by 2014 it was definitely showing its age. In that year, we embarked on a set of ambitious projects under the banner BlinkNG, with the goal of addressing long-standing deficien…  ( 14 min )

Each spring, a fledgling creature waddles, wriggles, or slithers across a Dutch beach. The sculptural animals are known as Strandbeests and are part of a growing menagerie by artist Theo Jansen (previously), who’s been constructing large-scale, kinetic beings powered entirely by the wind since 1990. Jansen unleashes the skeletal works—which weigh around 180 kilograms and use 2,000 to 3,000 meters of PVC pipe—in the early part of the year and uses the summer months to tweak their function so that they better withstand the sand, water, and other elements. More  ( 2 min )

Since its inception, the internet has offered its users new instruments on a regular basis. Today, most of us are juggling dozens of social and media platforms, hoping that they will provide maximum exposure to our ideas and endeavors. Yet this buffet of options has had the opposite effect, creating a glut of digital white noise that sucks up attention and traffic. It’s time to consolidate your digital assets with .ART. As a fast-growing domain zone for creatives, we decided to investigate how our community of 200,000+ is taking on the challenge of existing in a chaotic online world. More  ( 3 min )

After spending a few years hauling and selling antique rugs from its trunk, a vintage Mercedes underwent a lavish makeover with one of the plush textiles. A project of photographer and designer Mikael Kennedy, the luxury model is lined with pieces of a Farahan rug that covers its floorboards, trunk and subwoofer, and rear deck, adding colorful, ornate patterns to the otherwise streamlined interior. The retro revamp was part of Kennedy’s decade-plus repair of the vehicle and a collaboration with a professional upholsterer, who aligned the motifs under the dash and centered the main design in the trunk. More  ( 2 min )

Known for experimenting with an assortment of in-camera techniques, photographer Maria Lax transforms quiet, nighttime vistas and frozen forests into fantastically colored dreamscapes. She’s always been fascinated by the interplay of light and color, she tells Colossal, and following formal training in cinematography, has developed a distinct style that vividly interprets the outside world. Lighting and filters produce the kaleidoscopic range that overlays Lax’s images, and the London-based photographer is conservative with equipment. “I often shoot in remote locations in difficult conditions—some of these images were shot in temperatures reaching -30 C,” she says. More  ( 2 min )

Mermaid diagrams and flowcharts have been gaining traction, especially with GitHub’s announcement that they are natively supported in Markdown. Let’s take a look at what they are, how to use them, and just as importantly: why. Just like you … Making Mermaid Diagrams in Markdown originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 4 min )

Twitter should go private and return to its pre-2012 approach of being a centralized service with third-party clients.  ( 10 min )

What are the benefits of using push notifications and what can you use them for? In this article, Lee Munroe explains how to implement them and which practices are best to follow.  ( 8 min )

The Google Chrome team will be hosting office hours, where developers who are testing and integrating the Privacy Sandbox technologies can ask questions directly of Chrome leads. Access the Google Meet joining links and dial-in information. The first sessions will be dedicated to origin trials: how they work and how developers can test new features. Office hours will be offered in multiple time zones and languages. # Available office hours Our first session is this week, followed by additional sessions next week. Find a time that's best for you. # Session A: AMER and EMEA-friendly time, in English April 20th at 7:00 am PT April 20th at 10:00 am ET # Session B: APAC-friendly time, in Japanese April 27th at 5:00 pm PT April 27th at 8:00 pm ET April 28th at 9:00 am JST (Japan Standard Time) # Session C: APAC-friendly time, in English April 27th at 6:30 pm PT April 27th at 9:30 pm ET April 28th at 9:30 am SST (Singapore Standard Time) # Prepare for office hours To best prepare for the developer office hours, read the following articles: Getting started with Chrome's origin trials What are third-party origin trials? Troubleshooting Chrome's origin trials No registration is required. You can access the Google Meet joining links and dial-in information. We look forward to your attendance, and we encourage you to jump in and ask questions. Feature image by Matt Hoffman on Unsplash.  ( 1 min )

There are specific reasons why the internet is so generative, and they can be mapped back to architectural choices. One of the key architectural principles of the internet is modularity.

Gathering thousands of miniature porcelain vessels over large surfaces and curvatures, Grégoire Scalabre confronts preconceptions of form, scale, and material in his intricate sculptures. The Paris-based artist hand-turns countless tiny, vase-like containers reminiscent of amphorae, or ancient storage jars that were typically long and narrow so that they could be snugly stored together. Drawing on a centuries-old tradition of French porcelain making and an interest in Greek mythology, his dynamic works combine incredible technical skill with a desire to recast the medium in a new light and experiment with its physical limits. More  ( 3 min )

A hand-picked collection of the most creative and interesting web experiments from the past times. The post Awesome Demos Roundup #20 appeared first on Codrops.  ( 3 min )

An expert in the hypnotic, Wales-based artist Jon Foreman continues his exquisite constructions that position stones and shells into perfectly arranged formations. His most recent pieces include a mesmerizing gradient circle, concentric swirl, and seaside surge that show an evolution from his earlier land art by adding even more density and precision to his already meticulous practice. Because he works in public spaces subject to the elements, Foreman’s compositions last only a short period, although he sells prints in his shop for those wanting to preserve their entrancing nature. More  ( 2 min )

Designer Adam G. is known for utilizing his signature black and red to define the minimal illustrations coming out of the Santa Monica-based studio TRÜF Creative (previously). He describes his style as messymod, or messy modernism, an aesthetic that manifests as an eclectic array of shapes rendered in a tight color palette. Curved components and thin lines leading to perfectly round dots form his interpretation of the 36 Days of Type project, an ongoing endeavor that asks creatives to imagine their own renditions of the alphabet and numeral system. More  ( 3 min )

From her studio in South Portland, Maine, Zoe Keller (previously) continues to work at the intersection of art and science with her ongoing Ocean Biodiversity Print Series. The digital illustrations are evidence of Keller’s meticulous technique and attention to anatomical detail, and each piece highlights a vast array of marine life, with dozens of species of octopuses, jellyfish, and other sea creatures congregating in dense crowds—she also pairs every work with a key to easily identify each specimen. More  ( 3 min )

Storytelling is a powerful tool for any UX designer. It helps create a product and understand the people who use it. In this article, Marli Mesibov takes a real-life example of an app she helped to build in 2017 and explains five steps you can use to help you build a story into your user experience.  ( 13 min )

With a background in medicine, Edinburgh-based artist Flore Gardner fosters a creative practice that explores the body and its untapped potential. She works in an array of mediums from printmaking and ink-based illustrations to mixed-media installations and fiber, pushing the limits of human anatomy into the realm of the absurd or subversive. No matter the material, each work centers on a primary interest in drawing and utilizes the same techniques and principles that fill the pages of her notebooks. More  ( 3 min )

“My work has always been a tribute to all the hard-working women in my life,” says Kelly Reemtsen. The artist (previously), who lives and works between Los Angeles and London, has spent the last decade producing a subversive body of work devoted to exploring gender, its constructs, and real-world impacts, from wage gaps to the continual rollback of reproductive rights. Her practice spans printmaking, sculpture, and painting and juxtaposes visual markings of femininity with objects associated with masculinity. More  ( 3 min )

In Between Art and Science, Debora Lombardi harnesses the creative potential of ultraviolet light. The Italy-based designer and photographer splashes single flowers with the radiation, unveiling an entire spectrum of colors otherwise invisible to the human eye: saturated purple and blue tones delineate the veins in a leaf and yellows add a neon-like glow to stamen rich with pollen, transforming the blooms into otherworldly specimens. “I started experimenting with this technique in the darkness of my studio during the lockdown of March 2020, making it my main outlet in that equally dark period,” Lombardi tells World Photography Organization, which named the series a finalist in this year’s awards. More  ( 3 min )

A polemic against rationalization.  ( 6 min )

This week I finished my Frontend Masters Web Components Course. To market it celebrate that accomplishment, I wanted to share ~7 tips and tricks I’ve learned preparing my course or I feel aren’t super obvious about Web Components. 1. You can manipulate props right on a Lit element This may be something only I would do, but if you make an element with Lit that exposes its properties, you can edit those props externally using querySelector. const myCounter = document.querySelector('my-counter') myCounter.counter = 10 2. :host-context let’s you style an element based on its parent You can use :host-context() to style an element based on its parent. Your HTML may look like this: <…  ( 2 min )

The other day, I wrote about how emoji don’t count as a single character, and some of the challenges with counting them in a string. I also shared a simple trick for getting the number of emoji. Unfortunately, that trick falls apart pretty quickly with more complex emoji. Today, I wanted to dig deeper, and share a modern browser API that fixes this problem. Let’s dig in! The problem The trick I shared uses a for.  ( 2 min )

I'm a Creative Director based in Singapore who enjoys "making things" for the digital age.  ( 2 min )

Ideal SVG exports * CSS Parent Selector * Lexical * CryptoFont * Just a Calendar The post Collective #707 appeared first on Codrops.  ( 4 min )

Whether you work in-house or run a digital agency, there are occasions when you will consider hiring freelancers to supplement your team. Today, we’ll take a look into a platform known as [Upwork](https://upwork.pxf.io/c/1221738/1245573/13634) and the best ways in finding the the right freelancers as well as integrating them into your team.  ( 8 min )

Floating atop swirls of whimsically cut wooden waves, a miniature humpback springs to life with the help of a simple hand-crank. The kinetic whale is part of a growing marine menagerie designed by Sylvain Gautier, who whittles and assembles the mechanical sculptures from his workshop near Toulouse. This particular creature is carved from basswood, with a walnut frame and acacia base, and is named “Wooden Migaloo,” “after the albino humpback whale often seen on the coasts of Australia,” he writes. More  ( 2 min )

The team at Present & Correct recently released a set of six Riso-printed notecards in homage to the Ukrainian art of pysanka. A springtime staple, the annual activity involves decorating eggs with folk motifs utilizing a wax-resist method—read more about the technique previously on Colossal. Each blank card showcases four different designs in pastel tones above a phrase reading “Peace and Hope” in Ukrainian, a message steeped in the tradition itself. More  ( 2 min )

Infused with wit and metaphor, the oil paintings of Toronto-based artist Richard Ahnert imagine the glum, peaceful, and rambunctious lives of animals. His new collection, on view through May 6 as part of Bear With Me at San Francisco’s Modern Eden Gallery, centers on the eponymous mammals, which are shown in the midst of relatable, deeply human activities. Rendered with soft, hazy edges in subtle colors, the anthropomorphized characters are caught in the rain, slouched over a bar, and enjoying a mid-day reprieve on the water. More  ( 2 min )

We’re pleased to announce that we have partnered with Center for Humane Tech, a nonprofit organization that radically reimagines the digital infrastructure. Its mission is to drive a comprehensive shift toward humane technology that supports the collective well-being, democracy and shared information environment. The post Mozilla partners with the Center for Humane Technology appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.  ( 2 min )

Carousels don’t have a good reputation, and rightfully so. But we can make them more useful. **Best practices and guidelines** to improve the carousel design with honest scrolling direction, labels, thumbnails and grouped prev/next-buttons.  ( 24 min )

An on-scroll animation that shows repeated fragments of a big text as seen on the website of Dr. Dabber. The post On-Scroll Text Repetition Animation appeared first on Codrops.  ( 3 min )

A deep-dive into the CSS :has parent selector with some use-cases and examples.  ( 8 min )

A deep-dive into the CSS :has parent selector with some use-cases and examples.  ( 8 min )

Embedded content is the best way to keep users on your site, while sharing content from other pages or sites. This could be as small as an embedded Tweet, which displays in Twitter's style and format. It could be as large as an entirely separate site embedded onto your own, such as an embedded Shopify shop where visitors can make a purchase without leaving your site. Now more than ever, it's important that our sites remain secure when we embed content. There are several ways developers can embed content on a website. The most common technique is to use an , which allows you to embed any content onto your site with just a URL. It's already possible to add the sandbox attribute to make an iframe more secure. Alternatively, you could use a proposed HTML element: is propo…  ( 4 min )

Developers often tell us that it’s difficult to keep up with changes on the web and understand why these changes are happening. Today, we’re kicking off a new series called Chrome Dev Insider where we’ll share (1) What’s cool and newsworthy, (2) An insight into how we made a decision on a key topic (for example changing FLOC) or approach our work with the ecosystem (for example Interop 2022), and (3) any really important things that you need to know about (for example changes in user agent strings). As we share what we are working on, it will be in the context of our four priorities for 2022: Enabling delightful user experiences: make things intuitive for users; whether it’s performance, transactions, identity or transitions. Advancing the web’s capabilities: support the web's evolving rol…  ( 6 min )

Evoking the biological illustrations of Ernst Haeckel (previously) and photographic portraits of Merlin Tuttle, an ongoing project explores the incredible diversity of bats through geometric paper sculptures. Juan Nicolás Elizalde, who is half of the creative team behind the Buenos Aires-based studio Guardabosques (previously), began the series in 2019 after discovering variances in the animals’ ear shapes, fur patterns, and other distinctive characteristics. More  ( 3 min )

Tagged with graffiti and pockmarked with decay, the ramshackle structures by Simon Laveuve envision a disquieting safe haven in a post-apocalyptic world. The Paris-based artist (previously) creates miniature shelters on wooden support beams or atop grassy hills that soar high into the air, appearing to offer refuge from below. Constructed as assemblages of worn materials, vintage signs with peeling paint, and a stockpile of everyday objects, the mixed-media sculptures imagine a landscape where only the remnants of life remain. More  ( 3 min )

From its Catskills studio, Greentree creates sculptural candles in hues from sage and celadon to terra cotta and lilac. The company, helmed by artist Jennifer Green, hand-pours and finishes collections of feathery partridges, pinecones, clean-cut gemstones, and sets of vintage bottles that are equally design objects as they are functional goods. Each unscented candle is made of pure beeswax, meaning it burns cleanly and emits a naturally sweet smell as melts. In addition to the whimsical creations shown here, Greentree also sells angular pillars, tapers with spiraling edges, and other elegant designs in its shop. More  ( 2 min )

I’m a big fan of movies by J.J. Abrams. I enjoy their tight plots, quippy dialog, and of course: anamorphic lens flares. Filmmakers like Abrams use lens flare to add a dash of ‘homemade’ realism to their movies, … Add a CSS Lens Flare to Photos for a Bright Touch originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 5 min )

Machine-learning generated content has major implications on the Metaverse, because it brings the marginal cost of production to zero.  ( 8 min )

Today, I wanted to talk about emoji, and how weirdly JavaScript (and other programming languages) handle them. Specifically, emoji never have a length property of 1, which makes a lot of things harder than they should be. This came up during the current session of the Vanilla JS Academy workshop, and one of my students came up with a simple solution for counting emoji length. Let’s dig in! The problem Let’s look at the ice cream cone emoji: 🍦.  ( 2 min )

First-generation Brazilian-American, music industry transplant, and product designer working on the creator team at Pinterest. Passionate about amplifying marginalized voices in the industry, spicy street food, and powerlifting. Semi-professional dogspotter.  ( 6 min )

Like many things, a design system isn’t ever a finished thing — it’s a journey. How we go about that journey can affect the things we produce along the way. Before diving in and starting to plan anything out, be clear about where the benefits and the risks might lie.  ( 14 min )

Interested in helping improve DevTools? Sign up to participate in Google User Research here. # Import and export recorded user flows as a JSON file The Recorder panel now supports importing and exporting user flow recordings as a JSON file. This addition makes it easier to share user flows and can be useful for bug reporting. For example, download this JSON file. You can import it with the import button and replay the user flow. Apart from that, you can export the recording as well. After recording a user flow, click on the export button. There are 3 export options: Export as a JSON file. Download the recording as a JSON file. Export as a @puppeteer/replay script. Download the recording as a Puppeteer Replay script. Export as a Puppeteer script . Download the recording as Puppe…  ( 10 min )

Webaim.org releases an annual report called the WebAIM Million. This is a deep analysis of the one million most visited web sites how accessible they are. And every year the result is pretty grim. Across the one million home pages, 50,829,406 distinct accessibility errors were detected—an average of 50.8 errors per page. This is 1.1% […]  ( 3 min )

Strands of silk thread are delicately intertwined to create inviting pastoral scenes in miniature needlework sculptures by Ágnes Herczeg (previously). The Hungarian artist has recently begun to incorporate found driftwood into her pieces, foraged from the shores of the nearby Danube River where floodplain trees dot the riverside. Drawing inspiration from her surroundings, Herczeg’s subjects include animals, trees, landscapes, and women performing tasks like pouring tea, weaving, or taking a walk. More  ( 3 min )

An expansive exhibition sprawling through the Starrett-Lehigh Building in Chelsea offers an intimate and holistic glimpse at the life that inspired Jean-Michel Basquiat’s body of work. Opened Saturday, King Pleasure is curated by the artist’s two younger sisters, Lisane Basquiat and Jeanine Heriveaux, who unearthed more than 200 artworks and artifacts as part of the broad, deeply personal look at their brother’s world. Many of the objects, which range from stacks of books and home movies on VHS tapes to early pieces and paintings, are on view for the first time. More  ( 3 min )

The traveling collective known as AnonyMouse squeaked through Malmö’s bustling streets the last few weeks installing the latest additions to its tiniest cultural scene. After working in cities across Europe, the unidentified group visited the Swedish coast to wedge a miniature art museum, arcade, and shipping dock just big enough for a few mice into the long-established architecture. Built at street level, each minuscule creation is an elaborate and witty rendition of its human-sized counterpart: games like “Feline Fighter 2″ and “Cheese Invaders” are packed into the glowing arcade, while small boats, a cafe, and an ominous flag printed with a mouse and crossbones appear at the inland port. More  ( 3 min )

Welcome to the fourth feature update on Private Click Measurement, our proposed web standard for measuring advertising in a privacy-preserving way.  ( 4 min )

This new attribute will enable us to fine-tune relative resource priority, improve LCP performance, deprioritize JavaScript fetch calls, and much more. Let’s check out fetchpriority and explore some potential use cases.  ( 8 min )

A coding session where you'll learn how to create the interactive liquid-like effect from the PixiJS website using Three.js. The post Creating a Fluid Distortion Animation with Three.js appeared first on Codrops.  ( 3 min )

When strong winds gush out of a collapsing thunderstorm as it rips across a dry landscape, they sometimes generate a thick wall of dust known as a haboob. Photographer and storm chaser Mike Olbinski (previously) has been documenting these monumental weather events for the past decade and recently compiled dozens of clips into a dramatic timelapse showing just how quickly these phenomena form and subsequently obscure visibility. More  ( 2 min )

Vanilla JS provides a handful of approaches for creating unique copies of arrays and objects. But one ongoing challenge with all of them is that if an array or object is multidimensional—if it has an array or object nested inside it as an item or property—that item is not copied, but treated as a reference to the original. Today, we’re going to look at how to create deep, immutable copies of arrays and objects.  ( 3 min )

Using the Edge Developer Tools for VS Code extension, you can live edit files in the browser developer tools and all the changes are also happen in your source files. That way you never lose a change you did to your web projects in the developer tools. It makes tweaking a layout much more convenient […]  ( 1 min )

Data is among the most important things that make up a web application or a conventional native app. We need data to be able to see and perhaps understand the purpose of an application. In this article, we’ll look at another approach to obtaining data in an application that requires authentication or authorization using Next.js.  ( 6 min )

The freshest and most intriguing web designs from the past couple of weeks to get your creative juices flowing. The post Inspirational Websites Roundup #36 appeared first on Codrops.  ( 3 min )

Safari Technology Preview Release 143 is now available for download for macOS Big Sur and of macOS Monterey.  ( 3 min )

At once malleable in material and secure in shape, the vessels that comprise Suzanne Shafer-Wilson’s body of work are intricate studies of texture, pattern, and space. The Illinois-based artist loops and twists lengths of wire into intricate baskets that range in size from 20 inches tall to the width of a fingertip. Using a technique similar to the one employed by sculptor Ruth Asawa to create her rounded, metallic forms, Shafer-Wilson works with an Italian needle lace method designed for fibers like wool and silk. More  ( 2 min )

One of New York City’s most discerning and essential documentarians, photographer Jamel Shabazz has built a career around capturing the unique visual lexicon of the outer boroughs. His images are deeply empathetic and resolute in the value of all life regardless of race, class, and social status. With a self-described goal of preserving “the world history and culture,” Shabazz continually finds the joy and vibrancy emanating from communities like Brownsville, Red Hook, and Harlem. More  ( 3 min )

Paris-based designer and artist Alice Pegna revolves her practice around structures. She’s concerned with both the relationship between individual components and how a larger framework responds to its environment, and her pieces tend to amplify the connection between adornment and the human body. “The structure is an integral part of the universe,” she tells Colossal. “It is not always visible, yet always present, material or immaterial, just like our body, our thoughts, and our life.” This interest culminates in her architectural body of work that’s comprised of sculptural garments, headdresses, and accessories with sharp points and acute angles. More  ( 3 min )

Your website is a small (or, depending on where you work, not-so-small) pollution machine. Today, I wanted to share some things you can do to make the web a bit more green. Let’s dig in! How much pollution are we talking about? The internet is responsible for about as much pollution as the airline industry. One of the biggest contributors is data centers. Running the servers themselves isn’t that bad, but servers generate a tremendous amount of heat, and data centers consume massive amounts of energy keeping them cool.  ( 2 min )

Surya Anand is a self-taught designer with an intent to explore and learn everything that he loves.  ( 4 min )

Hey, if you read this email, it’ll be technically different from the previous. When I recently updated my newsletter service server software nearly everything broke into pieces. I was using mailtrain v1 for a long time now but it’s deprecated and using old node versions. Upgrading to v2 wasn’t easy enough for me and I also wanted to have an easier to maintain mailer anyway. The new email is sent via Spatie’s Laravel Mailcoach. So far it’s a pretty manual process again since it doesn’t support RSS-campaigns. At some point in future I want to publish the newsletter via Kirby to the Mailcoach API. But at this point I now changed my template as well to a modern MJML based template code. This should hopefully fix all the rendering issues you reported to me recently. I tried to support light and…  ( 3 min )

#100CoolWebMoments * Tweaking In The Browser * The Story of Next.js * Nitric * Yaade The post Collective #706 appeared first on Codrops.  ( 4 min )

Set to a gentle, upbeat track by Moby Gratis, “Moonlight Mojave” spins through the desert landscape of Joshua Tree National Park under the glow of a night sky. The timelapse compiles 20-second exposures into a deceptive display of light and movement, with the moon and stars illuminating the arid expanses as if it were daytime. Peeking through the eponymous, shrub-like trees, photographer Gavin Heffernan (previously) captures radiant star trails that streak across the bright blue sky, emphasizing the earth’s usually imperceptible rotation. More  ( 2 min )

The innovative team over at the Catskills-based studio Nervous System (previously) released a new line of miniature jigsaws that match organic shapes with similarly natural subject matter. All spanning less than eight inches, a spotted mushroom, mottled moth, fern, succulent, and blooming begonia comprise the collection that’s a small but challenging display of the planet’s tiny wonders. Each puzzle is encased in a plywood frame and has approximately 40-45 pieces with one whimsy cut in the shape of the larger form. More  ( 2 min )

An adorable little shell with one googly eye, pink shoes, and a charming sense of humor is back in the limelight this summer. Announced this week, a feature-length mockumentary from A24 will follow the iconic “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On,” whose debut stop-motion short directed by Dean Fleischer-Camp was a viral sensation a decade ago when it garnered myriad awards, prompted two sequels, and spurred an illustrated book. More  ( 2 min )

Yesterday, we learned how to get the value of an input as a number with JavaScript. Today, we’re going to learn how get a Date object instead. Let’s dig in! An example Let’s imagine you have an input element with a [type="date"] attribute. This creates a browser-native date picker that works in all modern browsers. The value property of the input will return the selected date in YYYY-MM-DD format.  ( 2 min )

In this series of articles, we highlight design patterns and techniques to design better interfaces. You can also find more examples in [“Smart Interface Design Patterns”](https://smart-interface-design-patterns.com/), a 6h-video course with 100s of hand-picked examples, curated by Vitaly.  ( 23 min )

[Devs For Ukraine](https://www.devsforukraine.io/) is a free online charity conference organized by the lovely people at Remote. Two days filled with talks from engineering leaders around the globe, in support of Ukraine. April 25–26.  ( 1 min )

Read about effective types of web animation and check plenty of motion design examples by tubik team, showing how motion supports web interactions and usability.  ( 13 min )

Today, after a decade or so of using MacOS, I realised that preview has a zoom lens built in. You can toggle it using the backtick ` key.  ( 1 min )

Lined with gilt edges and secured with a gold clasp, a bracelet by the Amsterdam-based duo of Lyske Gais and Lia Duinker packs a vast art historical collection within the span of a wrist. The pair created a wearable catalog back in 2015 that binds 1,400 pages into a thick book. Its contents contain black-and-white hand illustrations from 303 of Rembrandt’s etchings and drawings, subject matter inspired by its availability in Rijksmuseum’s digital archive. More  ( 3 min )

From Looney Tunes and Mickey Mouse to The Simpsons, cartoons have a long history of imagining the most ridiculous, chaotic moments possible and dramatizing them into absurdity. The animated characters and their hijinks are rooted in humor, and yet, as artist Peter Frederiksen recognizes, they also have a more sinister side. “Violence is a shorthand for conflict, confrontation, fears,” he tells Colossal, noting that many iconic cartoons were created post-war or have been produced during times when “violence was in the ether… I don’t put guns in embroideries because I like guns. More  ( 3 min )

Manila-based artist and designer Leeroy New challenges us to think about the waste produced from everyday materials by constructing elaborate sculptures out of discarded plastics. His large-scale works are made by cutting, twisting, and tying together found objects like water jugs, film reels, tubes, and bottles into forms that evoke a sense of  movement or migration. Embracing the exterior of a building as part of the Biennale of Sydney earlier this year, the tentacle-like public installation “Balete” was inspired by the discovery of piles of discarded irrigation hoses at recycling centers in Australia. More  ( 3 min )

Today, we’re going to look at how to get the value of an input element as a number using vanilla JS. We’ll look at the traditional way of doing that, and an awesome modern property that makes it even easier. Let’s dig in! An example Let’s imagine you have an input element with a type of number. Pick a number Whenever the user updates the value of the field, you want to get the value of the num field as a number.  ( 1 min )

An investigation into everybody’s favorite way to build software.  ( 18 min )

A Romanian designer looking to make an impact in people’s lives through design. I believe in continuous development and aiming for the long run. Currently working as a Senior UX Designer at Endava.  ( 4 min )

Whether you work in-house or for an external agency, we all share one challenge — dealing with stakeholders, be they your boss, colleagues, or clients. In this post, veteran web designer Paul Boag shares his approach to getting things done in even the most challenging organizations.  ( 8 min )

It is not that hard to create a script that shows and hides parts of the document, but often we forget about how our visitors use the products we build. Especially when it comes to navigating huge documents, people tend to use the “find in page” functionality of browsers. And when they do and we […]  ( 1 min )

A simple layout switch example where we go from a typography row view with inline images to a large image preview with more content. The post Lines to Content Layout Animation appeared first on Codrops.  ( 3 min )

Content delivery networks, or CDNs, allow you to improve the delivery of your website’s static resources, most notably, with CDN caching. They do this by serving your content from edge locations, which are located all over the world. When a … Adding CDN Caching to a Vite Build originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 5 min )

Nestled within polka-dotted expanses, stripes, and leafy motifs are Sandra Apperloo’s miniature faces. The quirky characters with pointed noses, freckles, and tiny, black eyes are part of the Utrecht-based ceramicist’s line of Weirdo Bud Vases, which are just wide enough to hold a stem or two within their tall, slim bodies. To create each piece, Apperloo (previously) hand-builds the rounded vessel, slip-casts facial features and arm-like handles, and finally, paints strands of hair and colorful patterns. More  ( 2 min )

Every month, Colossal shares a selection of opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. If you’d like to list an opportunity here, please get in touch at hello@colossal.art. You can also join our monthly Opportunities Newsletter.   Voice NFT ResidencyFeatured More  ( 4 min )

In one hour alone, the sun pummels the earth with more power than the world uses in the span of an entire year. This staggering fact inspired German photographer Tom Hegen (previously), whose recent aerial images survey the plants harnessing this source of renewable energy. The Solar Power Series peers down at landscapes across the U.S., France, and Spain that are covered with scores of square panels—according to PetaPixel, the locations include California’s Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, Nevada’s Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project, the Les Mées Solar Farm in France, and the PS10 Solar Power Plant and Gemasolar Thermosolar Plant, both near Seville. More  ( 3 min )

One day I came across this video about Muharrem, a deaf man, and how his whole neighborhood conspired against him for a surprise. Here I am, crying at my desk, moved to tears by an advertisement for a Samsung product in Turkey. You watch as Muharrem’s expression moves from confused, to disbelief, to overwhelm. Muharrem tears up, I tear up. Imagine what it must feel like to leave your house and the mismatch you feel every day got erased; the world works for you in a way that it didn’t before. What if… What if we could do this with the Web. What if… one day everything got better? The WebAIM Million Project scans the top 1,000,000 homepages and runs automated accessibility tests on them. In the report WebAIM identifies six (6) categories of issues that account for 96.5% of the over 50 millio…  ( 2 min )

As with all open-ended problems in life, the stepping stones are unknown.

Last week, I joined the folks at the JavaScript LA meetup to chat about what it’s like to be a developer with ADHD. This was more of an open conversation than most of my events, and I really enjoyed chatting with bunch of fellow ADHDers about some of the things we struggle with and some of the ways we work around those challenges. If that’s you, or if you just want to learn more about ADHD, you can watch the whole thing here.  ( 1 min )

Netflix has been resolutely opposed to selling ads, prioritizing the user experience; however, the market conditions for streaming have changed, and so should Netflix  ( 8 min )

Ever wondered how to build a paginated list that works with and without JavaScript? In this article, Manuel explains how you can leverage the power of Progressive Enhancement and do just that with Eleventy and Alpine.js.  ( 15 min )

Case study on a set of digital illustrations for a video production company CUBE: check a diversity of people characters and informative graphics supporting the brand image.  ( 7 min )

A few thoughts on why designing in the browser isn’t designing. It’s more of a tweaking process.  ( 8 min )

A few thoughts on why designing in the browser isn’t designing. It’s more of a tweaking process.  ( 8 min )

March came and gone. I chased fitness. We went on Spring Break. Growing a business. Baseball games. Failed on blogging. Here is a retelling of the vibes. Closing my rings This month I decided I would undergo a challenge to close my rings on my Apple Watch every single day for the whole month and I succeeded!1 It’s safe to say this hasn’t ever happened. My regiment was a mixture of walks, special Apple Fitness+ celebrity-guided walks (Dolly and Malala), and a heap of Apple Fitness+ workouts. As far as workout programs go, I appreciate the body diversity in Apple Fitness+ — it’s not a bunch of yoga thin hard bodies yelling at me to touch my toes to my ears, it’s real people. Did it make a difference in my weight? No. Not at all. In fact, I weigh a half pound more. My consumption habits were …  ( 4 min )

What’s in a Cloud?  ( 3 min )

In lunar astronomy, a phenomenon known as libration is the perception that the Moon is wavering or swaying in the sky when viewed from Earth. Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy (previously) wanted to record this fascinating occurrence in high resolution to emphasize the changes in light and contrast across the vast and cratered lunar surface. For nearly a month, he traveled around the state of Arizona in search of clear skies, dodging bad weather and a dust storm to capture clear images of the Moon as it reached its zenith every night. More  ( 2 min )

Following her series centered around the healing properties of Prussian blue, Portland-based artist Yellena James continues to imagine vibrant ecosystems brimming with fantastical life from land and sea. Her delicate organisms appear to float in washes of pastel colors and evoke coral, kelp, and daisies with an unearthly and whimsical twist. Recently on view at Stephanie Chefas Projects, James’s Origin series works in this vein and explores the most fundamental aspects of existence. More  ( 3 min )

When it comes to just about anything, habits matter more than skill or intelligence. The best developers I know—the ones I look up to and learn from—aren’t naturally gifted geniuses who just “know all the things.” They’re people who’ve built habits. Nearly every day, they learn a little something new. Nearly every day, they share a little something new that they learned. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. Keeping up with everything in our industry is impossible.  ( 1 min )

Next.js’ recent 12.0 release included a new beta feature: middleware. For a detailed explanation, you can read all about it in Sam’s previous article, “[Next.js Wildcard Subdomains](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/11/nextjs-wildcard-subdomains/)”. This article, on the other hand, dives into the overall concept of middleware and how handy it can be in building things.  ( 6 min )

Asheville-based artist Judit Just of jujujust (previously) transforms twisted ropes, skeins of cotton, and plush, carpet-like tufts into roving, abstract tapestries. Suspended from skinny wooden dowels painted to match their hanging counterparts, the sculptural textiles tend to swell in amorphous patches and curved lines before falling into thick patches of fringe. Just’s color palettes parallel the contrast in textures, with soft, pastel tones alongside bright, neon-like hues. The artist is currently working on a large-scale tapestry for Culture Object, which opens on May 10 at Culture Object, and plans to release new pieces in her shop this Friday. More  ( 2 min )

Giant striped characters, the world’s first inflatable fountain, and a mass of towering arches occupy the otherworldly installations designed by ENESS. The Melbourne-based studio creates immersive worlds of whimsical creatures and puffy, illuminated structures that spring from the ground. Often paired with upbeat soundscapes and interactive elements like squirting water and digital eyeballs, the air-filled sculptures are arranged as wonderlands of light and color that at night, bathe the viewer in a kaleidoscopic glow of LED bulbs. More  ( 3 min )

Through intricately woven displays of minuscule glass beads and rhinestones, Big Chief Demond Melancon continues a legacy. He belongs to the tribe of the Young Seminole Hunters in New Orleans, where he was born and raised, and is a leader in the tradition of creating Mardi Gras suits. The “wearable sculptures” are elaborate and celebratory, and Melancon’s works are known for their immense nature and for exhibiting his deft technical skill. Extremely labor-intensive, the garments tend to envelop their wearer in multiple layers and contain more than one million glass beads precisely stitched into evocative narratives of American history. More  ( 4 min )

There’s a bit of a setup to this song: Big Bird is pouting in his nest, jealous of the new baby Cody which gets a lot of attention. The whole street is concerned about Big Bird. If you ask me, Big Bird is being a bit of a bitch about it all but clearly he’s going through some strong feelings. The ever-graceful Buffy Sainte Marie1 comes in to share a song with him about the different kinds of love and attention you can give people based on their needs, with the refrain “different people, different ways.” Big Bird seems placated. “Different people, different ways” has been a useful parenting tool. It helps us resolve unfairness in moments of sibling rivalry, but also helps in explaining differences of the human condition. Why do they use a wheelchair? Why are they short? Why do they talk lik…  ( 1 min )

Today on Twitter, Matt Hobbs from the Gov.uk team shared that they recently removed jQuery from the site, and saw some big performance improvements as a result. 🧵 As I mentioned last week GOV.UK removed jQuery as a dependency for all frontend apps, meaning 32 KB of minified & compressed JS was removed. So let’s see what difference this has made for users by examining our RUM data. Thread will mainly focus on JS CPU time.  ( 1 min )

Jordan Egstad is a graphic designer and web developer creating expressive and enduring brand identities, websites, apps, typefaces, imagery, and more.  ( 4 min )

Understanding Layout Algorithms * Spruce CSS * PWA Resources * Variable fonts in real life The post Collective #705 appeared first on Codrops.  ( 5 min )

Let’s welcome the new month with some new wallpapers. Designed with love by artists and designers from across the globe, they are available in versions with and without a calendar for April 2022.  ( 7 min )

Visit ChromeStatus.com for lists of current deprecations and previous removals. Chrome 101 beta was released on March 31, 2022 and is expected to become the stable version in late April, 2022. # Reduce user agent string information Chrome is reducing the amount of information the User-Agent string exposes in HTTP requests as well as in navigator.userAgent, navigator.appVersion, and navigator.platform. We're doing this to prevent the user agent string from being used for passive user fingerprinting. To join the origin trial, see its entry on Chrome Origin Trials. # Remove WebSQL in third-party contexts WebSQL in third-party contexts is now removed. The Web SQL Database standard was first proposed in April 2009 and abandoned in November 2010. Gecko never implemented this feature and WebKit d…  ( 2 min )

The Privacy Sandbox includes a selection of proposals to enable advertising use cases without the need for cross-site tracking. Origin trials provide the opportunity for developers to evaluate and provide feedback on new web technologies through real-world testing. In previous origin trials sites have been able to test against individual APIs. For the Topics, FLEDGE and Attribution Reporting APIs we are providing a single origin trial that will allow sites to run unified experiments across the APIs making up an initial version of the end-to-end ad lifecycle. The APIs are available for local developer testing in the Chrome 102 Canary release now and we expect to make the origin trial available as soon as possible during the Chrome 101 Beta window. The Chrome 101 Beta will also see updates t…  ( 5 min )

Packed within Rain Szeto’s introspective works are untidy kitchens, cluttered market shelves, and mechanical disarray. The San Francisco-based illustrator finds magic in the mess and chaos of everyday life and imagines solitary activities like hanging laundry on the line or browsing record bins. Dreamy in color, the pieces exude a sense of calm and nostalgia for quiet moments. Each work is replete with colorful objects stacked and assembled into tight spaces, a style Szeto developed drawing comics in art school. More  ( 2 min )

Ghanaian-born Nigeria-based artist El Anatsui is known for sprawling metal sculptures that drape, twist, and fold across expansive surfaces in colorful, undulating patterns. A forthcoming book, El Anatsui: The Reinvention of Sculpture, traces his work and career that has pushed the boundaries of sculpture, starting with the terracotta pieces made in the late 1970s. In the following decade, he transitioned to using wood and began to experiment with scale, layers, color, and pattern. More  ( 3 min )

Since 2017, a multi-faceted initiative has celebrated hundreds of street photographers whose work develops and expands the boundaries of what’s historically been a male-dominated field. The project of Gulnara Samoilova, Women Street Photographers connects the widespread and deeply personal by highlighting the subtle, nuanced ways the world appears when viewed by different people. Broad in subject matter and style, the initiative’s collection ranges from Anna Biret’s intimate, shadow-laden portrait of a young girl in India to Debrani Das’s candid shot of children at play in black and white. More  ( 3 min )

We recently covered creating fancy borders with CSS mask properties, and now we are going to cut the corners with CSS mask and clip-path! A lot of techniques exist to cut different shapes from the corners of any element. … Tricks to Cut Corners Using CSS Mask and Clip-Path Properties originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 12 min )

In Firefox 98, we’re shipping a new version of the existing Performance panel. This panel is now based on the Firefox profiler tool that can be used to capture a performance profile for a web page, inspect visualized performance data and analyze it to identify slow areas. The post Performance Tool in Firefox DevTools Reloaded appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.  ( 3 min )

Earlier today, Remy Sharp tweeted… Cripes, I still use this tool I wrote 15 years ago. It’s a teenager going on adult 😱 http://entity-lookup.leftlogic.com that said, jsbin turns 14 in September… I guess I’ve always wanted my wares to last… It’s interesting to think about how much different our industry would be if more people built things to last. So much of our work is spent chasing trends and shiny objects instead of building simple, durable, useful tools that stick around for a while.  ( 1 min )

In this series of articles, we highlight design patterns and techniques to design better interfaces. You can also find more examples in [“Smart Interface Design Patterns”](https://smart-interface-design-patterns.com/), a 6h-video course with 100s of hand-picked examples, curated by Vitaly.  ( 10 min )

A glowing welcome center of interlaced bamboo stands at the entrance of the resort Grand World Phu Quoc in Vietnam. One of many designs by Vo Trong Nghia Architects that utilizes the ubiquitous material, the facility is comprised of arches, domes, and angular grids built from 42,000 culms, or hollow shoots. The open facade and embedded skylights allow light to stream through the building, helping to illuminate a 1,460-square-meter footprint, with visitors entering through an interior shaped like a lotus and bronze drum. More  ( 2 min )

Using his signature style of paper-like cutouts, Estonian illustrator Eiko Ojala (previously) digitally renders works that play with shadow and depth. He frequently collaborates with well-known publications like The Guardian and The Washington Post, among others, on editorial projects that unpack the legacy of James Joyce’s Ulysses, recount the experiences of pandemic meetups, or dive into political analyses. Ojala’s timely works are colorful and minimal, with each piece based on a strong visual metaphor. More  ( 2 min )

Whether cloaked in thick moss and debris or almost entirely preserved, the abandoned churches photographed by Roman Robroek document the effects of a changing landscape. At least 1,000 of the religious spaces are left unoccupied in both small towns and cities throughout Italy and stand in varying degrees of disrepair. In visiting approximately 100 chapels for his series CHIESA, Robroek witnessed how the once-sacred structures have been left behind. “If a church, once the most important haven in the community, can become a pile of ruins, what does that say about what we hold certain today?” he asks in an essay. More  ( 3 min )

Gabby is a designer living in New York and co-founder of Super Keen. Passionate about storytelling and design systems, her work focuses on branding for early-stage founders and projects.  ( 4 min )

After two years where almost everything moved online, 2022 marks the return of in-person conferences. In fact, [SmashingConf is back](https://smashingconf.com/conferences): coming to San Francisco and Austin in June, Freiburg (Germany) in September, and New York in October.  ( 3 min )

Are you a designer or developer affected by the war in Ukraine? Here are some options to consider if you’re looking for a design or tech job.  ( 3 min )

Today, we’re going to look at some modern JavaScript methods for working with forms and form data. Let’s dig in! The FormData object The FormData object provides an easy way to serialize form fields into key/value pairs. Use the new FormData() constructor to create a new FormData object, passing in the form to serialize as an argument. Form fields must have a name attribute to be included in the object.  ( 2 min )

Learn how to build an interactive line graph using the D3 JavaScript library and CSS custom properties to create different color schemes. The post Building an Interactive Sparkline Graph with D3 appeared first on Codrops.  ( 16 min )

Here's what you need to know: Chrome 100 has a three digit version number Take a stroll down memory lane and celebrate #100CoolWebMoments since Chrome's first release. There are some important changes to the user agent string. The Multi-Screen Window Placement API makes it possible to enumerate the displays connected to a user's machine, and place windows on specific screens. And there's plenty more. I'm Pete LePage. Let's dive in and see what's new for developers in Chrome 100. # Chrome 100 When browsers first reached version 10, there were a few issues as the major version number went from one digit to two. Hopefully, we learned a few things that'll ease the transition from two digits to three. Chrome 100 is available now, and Firefox 100 ships very soon. These three digit version number…  ( 3 min )

Google Chrome launched in 2018, and in March 2022 we are celebrating the launch of Chrome version 100 with a scroll down memory lane. #100CoolWebMoments remembers some cool, fun, interesting, and important things that have happened in the past 14 years. A lot has happened on the web since 2018. If you read Ethan Marcotte’s 2010 A List Apart article on responsive web design on the day of publication you might have done so with Chrome 4. By the time Media Queries became a W3C Recommendation in 2012, Chrome 19 was available. Chrome was at version 43 when Alex Russell and Frances Berriman introduced Progressive Web Apps in 2015, with Microsoft announcing Edge as the new browser to replace Internet Explorer in the same year. In March 2017, version 57 brought us CSS Grid, the layout method was shipped in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari within days of each other. This shared release of a major feature happened again more recently, with Cascade Layers landing in Chrome 99, along with Firefox 97, and Safari 15.4. Tell us which moments you loved the most. If we've missed anything (and we're sure we have), tweet us @ChromiumDev with #100CoolWebMoments.  ( 1 min )

A bookmarklet is a JavaScript-based bookmark that adds to a web browser. I’d like to show you some awesome web browser hacks to aid your web development workflow and how to convert those hacks into time-saving bookmarklets. Activating design mode … 6 Useful Bookmarklets to Boost Web Development originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 5 min )

Photographer Kathrin Swoboda frequents Huntley Meadows Park in Alexandria in search of red-wing blackbirds as they sing. On a cold morning back in 2019, she captured the conspicuous avians mid-tune, an activity that produced what appears to be smoke rings emanating from their beaks. The frigid temperatures make the hazy formations of condensation visible, and the serendipitous shot won the top prize in that year’s Audubon Photography Awards. Prints of the breathy birds, in addition to more of Swoboda’s wildlife images, are available on her site, and she also has a few works on view at Torpedo Factory Art Center and the Vienna Community Center in Virginia. More  ( 2 min )

Eva LeWitt, a New York City-based artist known for her site-specific installations and wall-based sculptures, has been invited by New York City Ballet to create a work for the company’s ninth Art Series. LeWitt will fabricate ten sculptures for a special one-night-only spring Art Series event on April 29, and attendees will be able to view her work both on and off the stage. The evening’s program includes Justin Peck’s Winter 2022 world premiere ballet “Partita,” for which LeWitt designed the sets. More  ( 2 min )

A solo exhibition at bitforms gallery highlights the fleeting nature of interaction in a series of responsive sculptures by artist Daniel Rozin (previously). Titled Shades, the show is comprised of multiple imitative works that reflect viewers’ movements through an embedded camera. “Take Out-Chopsticks Mirror,” for example, attaches the wooden utensils to a motorized base, and as someone passes in front of the piece, the components lift upward at a wider angle. More  ( 2 min )

In this article, we’ll talk about how to adapt our sites to the different scenarios of a device pointer: whether it has a pointer or not, or how accurate it is. To adapt our site to those devices’ needs we’ll talk about how to properly use media queries `hover`, `pointer`, `any-hover` and `any-pointer`.  ( 14 min )

Today, I wanted to share a quick tip I just learned from Henry Desroches on how to prevent the layout shift that occurs with numbers that have different widths. Let’s dig in! An example Imagine you have a counter app you can use to increase a number from 0 to 5, and display it in the UI. The HTML, looks like this. Decrease 0/5 Increase Whenever someone clicks one of the [data-count] buttons, you increase or decrease the count by 1, and update what’s displayed in the UI.  ( 1 min )

It took a few moments to realize what was striking about the opening video for Nvidia’s GTC conference: the complete absence of humans. That the video ended with Jensen Huang, the founder and CEO of Nvidia, is the exception that accentuates the takeaway. On the one hand, the theme of Huang’s keynote was the idea […]  ( 4 min )

Underwater footage from a dive off the coast of KoTao opens on the spotted body of a whale shark. Documented by a small team from Aquatic Images on two excursions, the giant, slow-moving creature is shown gliding gracefully through the Gulf of Thailand with what appears to be dozens of remora, or suckerfish, tagging along for the ride—these smaller swimmers tend to clean bacteria and parasites from their host in exchange for food and easy travel. More  ( 2 min )

In preparing for her own design projects, Tokyo-based architect Kei Endo sketches elaborate diagrams of hotel rooms. The watercolor works depict overhead views of floor layouts, color schemes, lighting, and the details of special amenities from hairdryers to soap bottles paired with precise dimensions. While focused on the uniform details of spaces like Hotel Siro in Toshima-ku or The Okura Tokyo, the drawings reveal how the designer’s attention to space, comfort, and lodgers’ needs inform every inch of the room. More  ( 2 min )

A follow-up to his series focused on the glow of LED-lit greenhouses, Tom Hegen’s new collection peers down on the landscape of Spain’s Almería peninsula. The German photographer is broadly interested in our impact on the earth and gears his practice toward the aerial, offering perspectives that illuminate the immense scale of human activity. In The Greenhouse Series II, Hegen captures the abstract topographies of the world’s largest agricultural production center of its kind, which stretches across 360-square kilometers of rugged, mountainous terrain in the northern part of the country. More  ( 3 min )

The other day, someone told me that I was doing junior developers and other beginners a disservice by teaching them vanilla JavaScript instead of libraries like React and Vue or pseudo-languages like TypeScript. The thing is… we’ve got too many developers who only know how to build with libraries, and not enough who understand the fundamentals. If you know how the web platform works, the code you write with libraries is better.  ( 1 min )

In the past months, there have been lots of talks dedictaed to Remix. Routing is not only one of the things that sets it apart from other frameworks, but it also fuels great performance and improves the overall experience for developers. Let’s dig in to all of the features that build up routing in this powerful framework.  ( 9 min )

Please help us to improve the emulation features of browser developer tools by filling out a two questions survey. Background We’re currently working on improving the findability of emulation features in the Microsoft Edge developer tools. Did you know that you can emulate different vision deficiences, dark and light schemes, forced colours and print layout […]  ( 1 min )

Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows  ( 4 min )

Ecuadorian illustrator Javier Pérez (previously) is known for transforming humble materials into minimal drawings brimming with his distinct sense of wit and whimsy. His latest set of experiments peels back the top layer of corrugated cardboard and uses the hidden, textured grooves to define a sailor’s striped shirt, dog’s shaggy fur, or a thick beard pre-shave. A mix of stop-motion animations and illustrations, the series turns simple lines and everyday items into playful scenarios. More  ( 2 min )

Kyiv-based artist Nikita Drachuk (previously) is behind a delicate menagerie of translucent octopuses, striped spiders, and mottled slugs exquisitely crafted in glass. Elaborately shaped with curling tentacles and segmented legs, the miniature creatures are the product of lampworking, which involves melting the colorful material with a lamp or torch. Drachuk works under the moniker Glass Symphony and has hundreds of pieces available on Etsy.   More  ( 2 min )

Tokyo-based artist Naoki Onogawa (previously) continues his meditative practice involving thousands of minuscule paper cranes. Attached in clusters to the branches of bonsai trees, the tiny birds perch in place of leaves and top the sculptural specimens with fantastically colored canopies. Onogawa painstakingly folds a square, centimeter-wide piece of paper into the origami cranes, which once amassed in large groups, symbolize eternal good fortune. The artist is currently preparing for shows this fall at Picaresque Art Gallery and TENMAYA in both Okayama and Fukuyama and recently opened his books for international commissions. More  ( 2 min )

MDN is one of the most trusted resources for information about web standards, code samples, tools, and everything you need as a developer to create websites. In 2015, we explored how we could expand beyond documentation to provide a structured learning experience. Our first foray was the Learning Area, with the goal of providing a […] The post Introducing MDN Plus: Make MDN your own appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.  ( 3 min )

We just released version 1.4.6 of the Edge DevTools for VS Code extension and the main change is that the Console tool is now available in the extension. 0:05 Console.log messages in VS Code 0:08 Test out some JavaScript 0:10 window object access 0:12 DOM convenience API support 0:15 Style changes 0:17 Console.table 0:20 Live […]  ( 2 min )

Dario Stefanutto is a multidisciplinary freelance designer from Italy. He works with international startups to design digital products, brands, and websites.  ( 5 min )

This week, I joined Dev creator Ben Halpern, along with guests Diana Le and Tyler Smith, on the DevDiscuss podcast. We had a nice chat about whether or not jQuery is still relevant in 2022. My perspective (which probably won’t surprise you) is that jQuery was an amazing tool that “paved the cow paths” for the web we have today. I think modern browser features make it largely irrelevant, but its documentation is fantastic, which makes it a great teaching tool!  ( 1 min )

CodeEdit App * CodeSandbox Projects * Lapce * Building a Heatmap Chart Component The post Collective #704 appeared first on Codrops.  ( 4 min )

Safari Technology Preview Release 142 is now available for download for macOS Big Sur and macOS Monterey.  ( 3 min )

After a COVID-related hiatus, the annual Falles festival in Valencia, Spain, returned this year with an extravagant celebration full of flames and sparks. The five-day pyrotechnic event draws thousands of people into the streets each March to witness fireworks, explosions, and a variety of sculptures burn to the ground, and at the heart of this year’s production was a 23-foot polar bear by artist Antonio Segura, aka Dulk (previously). More  ( 3 min )

For the first time in nearly two years, Colossal is launching a limited-edition print in collaboration with artist Tiffany Bozic (previously). “Oil Slick,” which is available now in Colossal Shop, centers on a cluster of grackles in shades of deep purples and blues, colors that evoke swirling petroleum floating on the surface of the ocean. “Though few species are as polarizing as these thoroughly urbanized birds, one thing is indisputable: their sheer numbers are a sign of their success and adaptability,” says the California-based artist, whose body of work focuses on preserving the diversity of the natural world. More  ( 2 min )

Ukrainian illustrator Tania Yakunova gravitates toward bold color palettes and clean lines to define her spirited characters. Set on monochromatic backdrops, her quirky scenes are tinged with whimsy and play with scale, surrounding the figures with low-hanging white stars, towering leaves, and oversized art supplies. Many of the Kyiv-based illustrator’s works involve a mix of digital and analog sketching with the final pieces rendered in paint. In recent weeks, Yakunova has been creating a series of ceramics focused on mental health, alongside illustrations responding to the ongoing war in Ukraine. More  ( 2 min )

In this article, Louis Lazaris describes and demonstrates some interesting HTML attributes that you may or may not have heard of and perhaps find useful enough to personally use in one of your projects.  ( 9 min )

A little animation for a big menu where the letters of a word shuffle to become the first letter of each menu item. The post Letter Shuffle Animation for a Menu appeared first on Codrops.  ( 3 min )

The latest in artist-driven projects to support Ukrainians affected by war, Marina Abramović is reviving her famous performance piece “The Artist is Present” to raise funds for humanitarian relief in Ukraine. Originally presented at the Museum of Modern Art back in 2010, the iconic work will be restaged in two iterations—one for a single person and another for two—at Sean Kelly Gallery in New York, where a solo show spanning decades of the Serbian artist’s work is on view through April 16. More  ( 2 min )

At the heart of Zadok Ben-David’s Natural Reserve on view at Kew Gardens is a low-lying plot sprouting nearly 1,000 plant species. The sprawling, ecologically diverse installation, which has traveled to multiple cities like Seoul, Tel Aviv, and Paris since 2006, is titled “Blackfield,” a name tied to the flowers’ dualistic nature: one side captures the vibrancy of life through bright, fantastical colors, while the other is painted entirely black. More  ( 3 min )

Earlier today, I saw a dude on Twitter giving a woman a hard time for publicly admitting that her code was “sloppy.” I don’t know what it is that causes a subset of men to feel like they have to correct people on things all the time, but it’s literally always dudes. I never see women do this. One of the things I always tell students in the Vanilla JS Academy workshops is that working code is better than perfect code, and readable code is better than clever code.  ( 1 min )

In this shorter series of articles, we highlight design patterns, techniques, and strategies to design better digital interfaces. You can also learn much more in [“Smart Interface Design Patterns”](https://smart-interface-design-patterns.com/), a 6h-video course with 100s of hand-picked examples, curated by Vitaly. [Check a free preview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSP5oR9g-ss).  ( 4 min )

You may not use XHTML (anymore), but when you write HTML, you may be more influenced by XHTML than you think. You are very likely writing HTML, the XHTML way. What is the XHTML way of writing HTML, and what … Write HTML, the HTML Way (Not the XHTML Way) originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 5 min )

Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta, the pair behind the Amsterdam-based studio DRIFT, have spent the last few decades exploring the intersection of technology and nature, an experience they recount in a new interview supported by Colossal Members. Their broad, immersive body of work harnesses the power of robotics, manufactured mechanisms, and even algorithms to visualize some of the most stunning and captivating biological phenomena and ecological cycles. We believe that we live in a time where technology and nature are no longer opposites but are codependent entities. More  ( 2 min )

A print sale from the women-led nonprofit Vital Impacts (previously) is raising money for people affected by the ongoing war in Ukraine. The month-long fundraiser, titled Impact Now, offers more than 100 images from National Geographic photographers. Taken globally and diverse in subject matter, the collection includes a variety of landscapes and wildlife, in addition to stunning underwater shots by renowned photographers Paul Nicklen (previously) and David Doubilet (previously)—and multiple shots focus specifically on life in Ukraine.  More  ( 3 min )

In a collection of otherworldly plants and flowers, digital artist Ondrej Zunka distorts the anatomy of botanical specimens into spiraling shapes and unusual textures. Titled The Fleur, Zunka’s renderings imagine 21 ethereal species—on his site, you can use a digital magnifying glass to view each work up close—that explores how all living creatures need biological variety in order to survive. “Habitats thrive with a diversity of plants that form complex communities, who both depend on and compete with one another in a natural symbiosis,” he says. More  ( 3 min )

A coding tutorial on how to reconstruct the shape animation from the website of INTERWEAVE using Three.js. The post Replicating the Interweave Shape Animation with Three.js appeared first on Codrops.  ( 3 min )

Passionate interactive developer based in Amsterdam. I have been working in the industry for the last 15 years, from Flash 2.0 to various javascript frameworks.  ( 5 min )

Today’s article is an excerpt from a new course and book on Accessible Components with vanilla JS that I’m working on. It’s not for sale yet, but will be part of the complete set and expert bundle when it’s released. The HTML elements that you use often convey information to people who use screen readers, and provide critical functionality to people who navigate the web with a keyboard. If an element should be interactive, use something focusable People who navigate the web with a keyboard can jump from one focusable element to the next by hitting the Tab key on their keyboard.  ( 3 min )

CSS Custom Properties can be used for far more than just color, and their values update in realtime, both via display mode updates and JavaScript logic. This is powerful stuff. Eric explains how modern CSS is a powerful piece of assistive technology that can thread into it to create flexible, maintainable and adaptive digital experiences.  ( 8 min )

I recently created a brick wall pattern as part of my #PetitePatterns series, a challenge where I create organic-looking patterns or textures in SVG within 560 bytes (or approximately the size of two tweets). To fit this constraint, I have … Optimizing SVG Patterns to Their Smallest Size originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 8 min )

By this art you may contemplate the variations of the 23 letters. Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, part 2, sect. II, mem. IV (1621) In The Library of Babel (1941), Jorge Luis Borges imagines a strange world: The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries, with vast air shafts between, surrounded by very low railings…

Part of a series of performances centered on cumbersome and surreal timekeeping devices, Maarten Baas’s “Sweeper’s Clock” chronicles two men as they track each passing moment with heaps of garbage. The aerially shot film follows the pair as they push lines of trash representative of the minute and hour hands around a large circle faintly defined in the landscape, keeping time as they go. Released in 2009, the video piece parallels other clever works in Baas’s Real Time series, including a painter manually unveiling a digital display and another showing the Dutch artist trapped inside a grandfather clock. More  ( 2 min )

Los Angeles-based artist Sam Keller creates playful works centered around his interest in twisting new narratives from everyday objects. He transforms a flattened Coca-Cola or La Croix can into a beautiful gleaming object coated in Swarovski crystals and sculpts giant Cheetos in hollow spheres and small stacks. Each work sheds light on consumption and capitalism’s grip on society. “My use of unpreserved junk foods I’m hoping should prompt a re-examination of the foods we decide to consume as well,” the artist shares. More  ( 3 min )

Building on a previous article on How to Build a Drag-and-Drop File Uploader, we’ll be adding some new features, but more importantly (maybe), we’ll be learning how to build it in Vue 3 and learn some best practices for Vue along the way.  ( 21 min )

Artist Willie Cole is known for transforming discarded materials into sculptures with a tenor of interrogation. Much of his three-dimensional work revolves around found objects like high-heels, plastic bottles, or ironing boards that he turns into pieces of cultural commentary, addressing issues of mass production, historical legacies, and identity. The items tend to guide the formation of his assemblages, he says, sharing that, “the objects that I use I see as them finding me, more so than me finding them… I see an object and suddenly I recognize what I can do with the object. More  ( 3 min )

South-Bucks, U.K.-based photographer Barry Webb favors the shimmering, gelatinous, and iridescent growths that sprout from decaying wood and plant material. His macro shots magnify the often imperceptible details of small slime molds, capturing the specimen’s unique characteristics with striking detail. From the globular heads of the Comatricha nigra to the spongey forms of the Arcyria denudata, each photo unveils the diversity and intricacies of some of the world’s tiniest organisms. More  ( 3 min )

What Is ARIA Even For? * Building a loading bar component * Avvvatars * In Defense of Sass The post Collective #703 appeared first on Codrops.  ( 4 min )

Hands-on Design Director working with agencies and brands on memorable digital projects, with a love for motion and typography.  ( 5 min )

Today, I wanted to look at two ways to climb up the DOM tree with vanilla JavaScript. Let’s dig in! The Element.parentNode property You can use the Element.parentNode property to get the parent of an element. Hello, world! let h1 = document.querySelector('h1'); // returns the #app element let parent = h1.parentNode; You can also string them together to go several levels up. let levelUpParent = h1.parentNode.parentNode; The Element.  ( 2 min )

For both MDN and Open Web Docs (OWD), transparency is paramount to our missions. With the upcoming launch of MDN Plus, we believe it’s a good time to talk about how our two organizations work together, and if there is a financial relationship between us. Here is an overview of how our missions overlap and how they differ, and how a premium subscription service fits all this. The post Mozilla and Open Web Docs working together on MDN appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.  ( 3 min )

Hey, from time to time my intro isn’t entirely web-focused. I always struggle a bit when this is the case because usually it’s about sensitive topics which aren’t easy to discuss in public but this is a personal newsletter. And you can always skip the next paragraph. personal intro When I sent out the last edition, we were in a pandemic. Now, there’s also a new war between multiple political forces, creating fear and uncertainty around the people of the world. As if the pandemic situation wouldn’t be stressful enough, this adds up to anxiety, feelings of helplessness and »what the hell is happening in the world?« thoughts. Things aren’t normal since two years now and I the only way I currently see is people finding an arrangement with their inner self to deal with this. Which isn’t really…  ( 4 min )

If businesses are subject to Aggregation Theory, then so are ideas: this is the root of the "The Current Thing" meme, and it should drive a re-evaluation of how we think about moderating content on the Internet.  ( 8 min )

Back in January, I posted about a launch.json file to turn VS code into an end-to-end web debugging environment. One of the features people told me was missing was to start and stop a server with the debugging session. So here is how to do this. We add two more lines to the existing `launch.json`, […]  ( 3 min )

# What is CHIPS? Cookies Having Independent Partitioned State (CHIPS) is a Privacy Sandbox proposal that allows developers to opt a cookie into "partitioned" storage, with separate cookie jars per top-level site. A partitioned third-party cookie is tied to the top-level site where it's initially set and cannot be accessed from elsewhere. The aim is to allow cookies to be set by a third-party service, but only read within the context of the top-level site where they were initially set. # Who is the origin trial for? This trial is available as a third-party origin trial, which enables providers of embedded content to try out a new feature across multiple sites. If a site enrolls in the trial as a first-party, the cookie partitioning functionality will be available to any third-party content …  ( 3 min )

The oscillating curves of a sine wave become a disfiguring characteristic in Léo Caillard’s ongoing Wave Stone series. Carved in white Carrara marble and stone with green and gray ripples, the French artist’s sleek renditions of Aphrodite, Laocoön, and Venus appear to have warped, glitched, or transformed into a tight spiral. Much of Caillard’s work is anachronistic, and he tells Colossal that “the face of the statue connects the piece to its reality, a representation of a classical and iconic figure from the past,” while the abstractions create new gaps of negative space. More  ( 2 min )

Today wraps up our annual Spring Membership Drive, and we’re just 25 members short of reaching our funding goal—can you help us across the finish line? We know you have options to read independent arts publications that adore things like grandiose portraits of chickens, fungi timelapses, and bread sculptures made of felt, and we’re so glad you picked this one. Publishing 16 articles each week about our favorite artists and creatives, interviewing the folks behind important projects like the Social Justice Sewing Academy and This Is Not a Gun, and sending over 30 newsletters a month is our greatest joy. More  ( 2 min )

Scientists off the coast of the Maldives uncovered a new fish species that’s a bold pop of color in comparison to its shadowy twilight zone habitat. The aptly named rose-veiled fairy wrasse, or Cirrhilabrus finifenmaa, is a small creature with a bright pink head and bodily scales in shades of yellow and blue. Generally found between 131 and 229 feet below sea level, the rainbow-hued specimen is a striking discovery and the first to be formally classified by a Maldivian researcher. More  ( 2 min )

Case study on brand identity design and website for FarmSense, the technology built on the crossroads of hardware and software and dealing with innovations in agriculture.  ( 14 min )

I’m creating a new course and ebook on how to build accessible UI components with vanilla JavaScript. Many of the core concepts from the course are woven into the Vanilla JS Academy workshops, and I thought it was time that they got their own dedicated guide. Today, I wanted to share the intro section on accessibility, assistive technology, and why sometimes using JavaScript is more accessible than not using it.  ( 3 min )

A new collection of creative websites to keep you up-to-date on the latest web design trends. The post Inspirational Websites Roundup #35 appeared first on Codrops.  ( 3 min )

This fresh new design trend has been picking up steam with the rising popularity of colorful inflated 3D graphics in web illustrations and with the latest Virtual Reality projects like “Horizon Worlds”. Let’s see if there is room for Claymorphism on the UI, and how we can create this effect with CSS.  ( 9 min )

Streaming from a beak or bodily mass, the thin paper strips that compose a new series of sculptures by Lisa Lloyd (previously) are infused with movement. The U.K.-based artist shapes the individual pieces into wide curves, mixing a variety of materials and hues from flat graphic colors to shimmering metallic. Abstract and energetic, the resulting sculptures contain a chaotic blend of emotion within circles of feathers and protective scales. Lloyd shares that the pieces respond to personal and political strife, which manifests in the lively nature of each creature. More  ( 2 min )

Uncanny hybrid bodies, peculiar garments, and innumerable unearthly details comprise Sophie Woodrow’s troupe of porcelain figures. Living and working in Bristol, the artist sculpts the delicate, white material into characters that blur the line between nature and culture: giant ribbons wrap a horned bull in a bow, a face emerges from a cloud-like form, and multiple heads sprout from a single neck. Evocative of Leonora Carrington’s surreal creatures—the tall “Hearing Trumpet” figure is a nod to Carrington’s bizarre novel by the same name—Woodrow plays with artifice and makes it difficult to distinguish bodily features from costume or accessory. More  ( 2 min )

A trained psychotherapist, Johan Deckmann (previously) has stacks of books to remedy our most painful emotional struggles and existential dread. His collection includes the massive “Your chances of changing the world,” the much slimmer “Your chances of changing yourself,” and the dismally timely “How to take a deep breath and go on even though everything feels so wrong.” Often painted on soft, cloth covers evocative of vintage self-help manifestos, Deckmann’s ironic titles are steeped in our culture of incessant improvement and tend to be brutally honest about human limitation. More  ( 3 min )

Joseph is a Design Lead at New-York based creative agency, Porto Rocha. He studied French and Spanish at University, and is fascinated by the intersection of languages and visual communication. He currently lives in London, where he works for Porto Rocha on a large range of clients that span multiple industries.  ( 5 min )

Last year, I wrote an article sharing Stephen Shaw’s awesome trick for simple, autogrowing textarea elements. It uses a wrapper element, CSS grid, and a sprinkling of vanilla JS, and it works wonderfully! But… if your textarea has text in it when the page loads, it doesn’t work. .autogrow { display: grid; } .autogrow::after { content: attr(data-replicated-value) " "; white-space: pre-wrap; visibility: hidden; } .autogrow > textarea { resize: none; } .  ( 1 min )

Hey hey! I’ve got a big announcement to make here. (Where’s my gong? I feel like this really needs a good gong hit.) CSS-Tricks, this very website you’re looking at, has been acquired by DigitalOcean! You can hear … CSS-Tricks is joining DigitalOcean! originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 3 min )

An expanding menu animation with a cover unreveal effect in the background. The post Expanding Rounded Menu Animation appeared first on Codrops.  ( 4 min )

I like noise cancelling headphones. Using them, I can sleep better on planes and find much more detail in music I enjoy. In the office, they are a visual clue that I am currently unavailable for feedback as I want to concentrate on a task at hand. We live in times of a constant information […]  ( 14 min )

Artist Cecilia Levy (previously) carves individual words and phrases from vintage books that she then refashions into Mary Janes, fringed boots, and classic tea sets. As thin as a single sheet of paper, her fragile, pasted sculptures weave blocks of texts into new patterns and contexts that add intrigue and depth to their everyday forms. The sourced material “carries several narratives at the same time, both in the content itself and by the passing of time, for instance where light and age have turned the edges of the paper brittle and brown. More  ( 3 min )

French artist Charles Leval, who works as Levalet (previously), is attuned with the nonsensical and hapless, which he translates into clever site-specific works in craft paper and India ink. Often built off of public architecture like windows and sidewalks, his streetside wheatpastes either typify a bad day or find humor in the odd and absurd: new works feature an angry pack of dogs, a construction worker planting an already blooming flower in concrete, and a golfer putting into a drainpipe. More  ( 2 min )

It’s estimated that more than 2.8 million refugees have left Ukraine since Russia’s invasion less than three weeks ago, and an ongoing print sale is raising funds to help those fleeing the country. Art X Peace is offering dozens of limited-edition works from artists around the world, including Paola Ferrarotti’s black-and-white photos, Masha Manapov’s whimsically rendered landscapes, and a classic sign of peace by Lele Saa. More  ( 2 min )

With over 70 additions to WebKit, Safari 15.4 is packed with new web technologies, updates, and fixes.  ( 10 min )

Looking for ways to create a smooth CI/CD flow for your software? In this article, Tom Hastjarjanto shares some useful concepts that can be combined with GitHub Actions and NPM packages. With this setup, you will be able to release multiple times per hour with a fully documented trace managed by Git.  ( 5 min )

How to align content with another section given that they are placed in different wrappers  ( 3 min )

How to align content with another section given that they are placed in different wrappers  ( 3 min )

In Maria Marta Morelli’s luxurious oil paintings, delicate peonies almost bloom through the canvas. The works represent the Buenos Aires-based artist’s fascination with the cycle of time and how flowers convey youth but also the “unbearable finitude of life,” she tells Colossal. “With their incredible beauty and freshness, although transitory, they fill us with hope and convince us that life is worth living.” Morelli works as if using a macro lens, and sunlight, in particular, informs her practice. More  ( 3 min )

Serbian artist Endre Penovác (previously) wrangles the bleeds of black ink and watercolor in his shadowy renderings of domestic and wild animals. Sometimes delineating a talon or ear with thin markings, Penovác primarily allows the medium to run across the paper, transforming a housecat or chicken into a dreamy, phantom-like character. Many of the works frame the central animal with negative space and utilize the soft, hazy edges to evoke fur and feathers. More  ( 3 min )

Taken across six continents, the entries to the 2021 World Nature Photography Awards capture the hungry, curious, and ingenious animals around the globe. This year’s winners include an arctic fox braving an Icelandic snowstorm, a trio of red ants forming a bridge to let each other pass between rocks, and a serendipitous shot of a leopard seal preparing to snack on a gentoo penguin, which garnered the top prize. Centering on both the largest and the often imperceptible creatures inhabiting the planet, the photos are diverse and an example of the wonder and awe that exists at every level of the animal kingdom. More  ( 3 min )

When witnessing inequity is like digging into an already numb wound and participating in surface-level social justice is as easy as recycling digital shares, the Social Justice Sewing Academy offers the power of touch. The organization works with kids and teens to make quilt blocks that express injustices in their lives, and Colossal contributor Gabrielle Lawrence recently sat down with program director Stephanie Valencia to discuss the project’s mission in a new interview supported by Colossal Members. More  ( 2 min )

Last night, I had the pleasure of chatting with the Thunder Nerds team about JavaScript, ADHD, and building a career in tech. We also had a good rant about the many plot holes and inconsistencies in the PAW Patrol universe. This was one of the most fun and chaotic podcasts I’ve ever had the pleasure of being on. I hope you enjoy watching as much as I enjoyed chatting with Frederick, Brian, and Vincent.  ( 1 min )

Standing out among the millions of mobile apps can be challenging, but proper marketing can give you that crucial edge. This piece shares how to start your mobile app marketing strategy and improve it as you go while keeping up with the latest trends in the market.  ( 13 min )

Ebony G. Patterson’s multi-layered works are willfully superficial. The Jamaican artist weaves together a mélange of torn papers, tassels, appliqués, and feathered butterflies to create striking gardens replete with glitter and vibrant hues. “In many ways, I think of the work as the flower and the audience as the bees,” Patterson told Nasher Museum. “The bee is first attracted to the flower because of its color, but it’s not until you start peeling back the layers that you understand what’s happening with the nectar.” Often set against wallpaper of her own design, Patterson’s mixed-media tapestries and smaller works are immersive and captivating, inviting study of both individual elements and how they interact. More  ( 4 min )

The saying goes that two heads are better than one, except in the case of a young girl named Matilda. The titular character of a playful stop-motion short by Lithuanian animator Ignas Meilunas, Matilda is on track to be the smartest girl in the world when suddenly, mid-study session, her mind goes haywire. She recognizes that she can’t stuff a single fact more into her already packed brain and to remedy the issue, her mother decides to order her daughter a second head from a department store. More  ( 2 min )

Last week, representatives from 175 nations formally agreed to curb plastic pollution in a momentous move. Plastic has become an increasingly urgent part of the climate crisis, and recent estimates approximate that the total amount of the material produced throughout history exceeds the combined weight of all animals on land and sea. Each year, we collectively generate 300 million tons more waste from single-use containers and similar products, a staggering number in comparison to the 9 percent we’ve recycled and a testament to the harsh reality that the planet is engulfed with plastic. More  ( 3 min )

In this article, Vivek Maskara introduces Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) Cloud Development Kit (CDK) which is increasingly becoming a popular tool for managing AWS-based infrastructure. We’ll take a closer look into CDK concepts, and then how to use the AWS CDK toolkit to deploy a sample application to an AWS account.  ( 12 min )

WebGPU * The Micro-Frontends future * Type Trends 2022 * Open Source Color System * How to design better APIs The post Collective #702 appeared first on Codrops.  ( 5 min )

Yesterday, the Microsoft Dev Team announced they’re introducing a proposal to bring TypeScript strict typing natively to the browser. A lot of devs chimed in with both excitement, and suggestions for other library-based innovations they’d like to see natively. I wanted to unpack that today. Let’s dig in! The proposal In their proposal, they suggest something like this… function equals(x: number, y: number): boolean { return x === y; } The team is quick to point that they’re not suggesting live runtime type checking, for both compatibility and performance reasons.  ( 3 min )

Jesse Ragan designs a broad range of typefaces for XYZ Type, which he and Ben Kiel launched in 2017. Beyond making fonts from scratch, Jesse also specializes in customizing lettering for logotypes and helping clients understand how letterforms tick.  ( 5 min )

“Hens and roosters can’t be directed,” says photographer Alex ten Napel. No matter the situation, the red-faced birds are wholly themselves, lurching from one spot to the next, burying themselves within masses of feathers, and spreading their wings as if they’ll finally lift off the ground despite being notoriously poor fliers. Chickens are known for their awkward gaits and distinct attitudes and are also the latest subjects of ten Napel’s portraiture. Having focused his lens on people for about 25 years, the Amsterdam-based photographer realized that documenting the fowl occupying his henhouse would be a compelling challenge. More  ( 3 min )

Favoring thread and found materials, Richmond-based artist Hillary Waters Fayle (previously) works at the intersection of textile traditions and botany. “Stitching, like horticulture, can be functional,” she says, “a technical solution to join materials/a means of survival. Or, both can be done purely in service of the soul, lifting the spirit through beauty and wonder.” Fayle’s practice embodies this sentiment with elaborate and colorful embroideries applied to dried leaves. Lined with brown edges, the perfectly preserved surfaces become more fragile as they age, and the threaded embellishments enhance the relationship between the natural and fabricated. More  ( 3 min )

At once rigidly skeletal and imbued with rhythmic movement, the porcelain sculptures that comprise Shiyuan Xu’s Growth series are intricate recreations of single-celled organisms, molecules, and other micro lifeforms. The Chinese artist hand-builds delicate ceramic works of three-dimensional webbing that swell and surges into amorphous shapes mimicking a range of living creatures. Stretching up to two feet, the enlarged, abstract sculptures incorporate both the universal nature of evolution and change, while directly tying to Xu’s background. More  ( 4 min )

Today we released a new GitHub repository for the Developer Tools in Microsoft Edge where you can file issues about problems, bugs and feattures you would like to see. You can also view the list of existing issues and add your comments. There’s an official blog post on the Microsoft Edge blog but here’s why […]  ( 1 min )

Tomorrow (Thursday, March 10, 2022) at 7:30pm Eastern, I’ll be joining the folks from Thunder Nerds for a live chat about JavaScript, the modern web, switching careers, ADHD, and more! It will be recorded, but if you want to watch live and heckle me on Twitter, all the better! Watch here, and check when it’s happening in your time zone here.  ( 1 min )

What started as a case study turned into a guide to visualizing audio with JavaScript. Although the output demos are in React, Jhey Tompkins isn’t going to dwell on the React side of things too much. The underlying techniques work with or without React.  ( 17 min )

Peering through a macro lens, French video artist Thomas Blanchard has cultivated the ability to transform common scientific occurances into mesmerizing, and often otherworldly, tableaus. His recent project is a collaboration with musician Sébastien Guérive, whose quiet, beat-heavy track “Bellatrix” overlays Blanchard’s experimental film. Shot in 8K against a black backdrop, the video documents a chemical dropped into hot water and then subsequently cooled. The plunge in temperature causes the substance to become unstable, activating crystallization and sending fringed spikes of ice splaying outward from a central point. More  ( 2 min )

Bologna-based artist Michele Volpi (previously) inoculates his monochromatic tattoos of anatomical figures and biological diagrams with a dose of the surreal. Working in black ink, Volpi renders exquisite scientific illustrations across botany, astronomy, physiology, and chemistry with precise detail. He uses intricate linework and stippled shading to create realistic renderings of human skeletal systems and weather cycles, while skewing the scale or pairing seemingly disparate subject matters to achieve the more unusual qualities. More  ( 2 min )

The Sony World Photography Awards (previously) garnered a whopping 340,000 entries for its 2022 competition, with subject matter spanning from the magical landscapes of Turkey to an intimate portrait of Burmese siblings. Approximately 170,000 of those original submissions fall under the contest’s National Awards category, which recently announced the top images. The winning collection offers a varied and striking look at the state of contemporary photography and a broader consideration of culture, documenting both the serendipitous and composed sights from 62 countries around the globe. More  ( 3 min )

We said goodbye last month to our 2009 Rockwood Freedom popup camper “Big Freeda”. Lots of fond memories in this rustic little camper, but ultimately she cost us about $500 every time we wanted to take it out. Goodbyes are hard, but let us remember the moments we shared: That time we had a blow out on the way home from Dinosaur Valley. That time we were packing up at Pedernales in the rain and the dog escaped off leash but came back covered in coyote shit. That time we went to Inks Lake and you wouldn’t pop up. That time we went to McKinney falls and you wouldn’t pop up, so we used the backup bolt and sheared it off. That time we were coming back from Garner and had two blow outs. That time we brought it back from the shop and were trying to show our neighbor the inside of the popup but it only popped up half-way. That time we were leaving McKinney and the trailer fell off the hitch. That time we missed a trip to Inks Lake because you wouldn’t pop up. That time we went to Mustang Island and got eaten alive by mosquitos. That time we went to Pedernales and the wheel well fell out. That time we hauled you up to Georgetown and you wouldn’t pop up. Sweet memories of camper ownership, each of them. For real, I cherish every one. Every problem was an “Oh shit” moment, a challenge, that our family had to respond to and figure out. Put outside of our comfort zone. In some ways that’s what camping is: endless fighting against the elements or your equipment. While not “fun”, I wouldn’t trade the experiences. I really wanted to yeet Big Freeda into the ocean, or feed it to a Truckasaurus Rex… but alas, a less dignified sale took place. That’s okay. We’re not done camping as a family, some of our best memories are from camping, but we’re not going to jump right away into a new camper. We want to take some time and figure out the best fit for us going forward.  ( 1 min )

A few years ago, I noticed that a lot of people who are learning JavaScript struggle with putting all of the moving parts together into a working project. They read tutorials, follow along with other people’s code, and look stuff up on MDN, but when it’s time to sit down and create a project from scratch… nothing! They get stuck. They don’t know how to start. The Vanilla JS Academy is a project-based workshop I created specifically to address this challenge, and it’s quickly become my most successful learning resource.  ( 2 min )

An inquiry into the technologies of speech-based societies.  ( 8 min )

Founder & Creative Director of ikon, a Boutique Branding & Creative Agency specialising in design for affluent audiences.  ( 4 min )

15 top tools and resources for designers and agencies you can put to use to enrich your 2022 web design projects. The post 15 Awesome Tools and Resources for Designers and Agencies in 2022 appeared first on Codrops.  ( 8 min )

February was a month that felt like ten months; cold, hot, beautiful, windy, busy, stressful, and globally catastrophic. But beyond that last part, it’s been a month of growth, reorganizing, and learning about stress. Survived the freeze Texas had another big winter storm this month. Thankfully the grid didn’t shut down but after talking to a lot of Austinites, I think we all have a bit of trauma from the freeze last year. A state government unable to keep the lights and heat on. HEB, the grocery store, was a better government. Although spared a catastrophe, Texas — in the form of Gov. Greg Abbot — has found out other ways to be shitty by making it illegal to be a caring parent of a trans child. The trauma continues. Sold the pop-up Over Valentine’s weekend, we tried to go camping with ou…  ( 4 min )

Interested in helping improve DevTools? Sign up to participate in Google User Research here. # Chrome 100 Here’s to the 100th Chrome version! Chrome DevTools will continue to provide reliable tools for developers to build on the web. Take a moment to click around in the What’s New tab to celebrate the milestones. As usual, you can watch the latest What’s New in DevTools video by clicking on the image. # View and edit @supports at rules in the Styles pane You can now view and edit the CSS @supports at-rules in the Styles pane. These changes make it easier to experiment with the at-rules in real time. Open this demo page, inspect the element, view the @supports at-rules in the Styles pane. Click on the rule’s declaration to edit it. Chromium issues: 1222574, 122…  ( 10 min )

Along with delicate flowers in porcelain, Berlin-based artist Angelika Arendt applies minuscule orbs, dots, and thin, curved lines to her meticulously textured sculptures. Amorphous in shape but distinct in the organic matter they evoke, her intricate works often mimic processes found in nature, including plant growth and cells as they swell and burst into new life. Some pieces appear mid-movement, like expanding molecules, and others drip or peel to reveal fields thick with foliage and other tactile elements. More  ( 3 min )

In his solo exhibition Magic Bridge, Vermont-born artist Ethan Murrow (previously) overwhelms his subjects with sprawling floral assemblages that cloud their senses and judgment. The graphite drawings center largely on figures undertaking precarious and trivial activities to exert some form of control, often through futile underwater adventures and inexplicable actions atop wooden platforms. On view at Winston Wächter through April 30, the meticulous renderings are tinged with parody and embrace the bizarre and indeterminate. More  ( 3 min )

Since launching in 2010, Colossal has published thousands of articles featuring emerging and established artists. Our goal has always been to support a vast array of creative endeavors and highlight the beauty of the world around us, and we’ve prioritized accessibility to art in all its forms over clicks. Sharing the work of the most exciting artists, photographers, illustrators, and designers who may not receive coverage in the mainstream press is our greatest joy, but we need your help. More  ( 3 min )

Wolfram Kampffmeyer (previously) crafts vibrant, geometric snakes and jaguars that appear to plunge from the wall. The German designer has spent the better part of a decade prototyping digital renderings of polygon sculptures and taxidermy-style busts that he then translates to DIY kits sold under the Paperwolf brand. Minimal and playfully colored, Kapffmeyer’s menagerie includes a seated koala, multiple birds in flight, and of course, the original majestic wolf. More  ( 2 min )

The reaction to the Ukraine invasion has been a demonstration of tech capabilities; those capabilities may be the key to compelling China to pressure Russia.  ( 13 min )

We’re starting a slow-rollout for Subconscious. We’ve made it to the starting line! Alpha testers will be invited to an email list that will announce new Subconscious releases. Invites will go out in batches of about a dozen, so that I am able keep up with feedback. If you don’t get a TestFlight invite right off the bat, don’t worry, it’s coming!

Over the weekend, Ben Vinegar tweeted… I don’t understand the agenda of “web development is too complicated now” people … what is the endgame? Before Prettier I spent needless hours bikeshedding code style minutiae with my coworkers. If you want those days back, delete .prettierrc and go nuts. Before ESLint (or TypeScript), it was common to deploy syntax errors because of easy typos like misspelling “var” or “function”. If you want that freedom again, remove .  ( 3 min )

Learn two ways of applying a creative grain effect to 3D elements in Three.js. The post Creating a Risograph Grain Light Effect in Three.js appeared first on Codrops.  ( 10 min )

Using signals to deliver less, or different, content is a form of progressive enhancement (or graceful degradation depending on how you look at it), whereby extraneous content is only loaded when necessary, but the core functionality of the website still works. In this article, we’ll look at some of the signals that can be used for this.  ( 16 min )

Working in the belly of a beast.  ( 20 min )

The latest motion design concepts and web animation inspiration from the past couple of weeks. The post UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #22 appeared first on Codrops.  ( 3 min )

Photography, and street photography, in particular, has the power to preserve the fleeting, framing the brief encounters and dalliances that sometimes end as quickly as they began. This impulse to document the momentary permeates throughout Juri Nesterov’s body of work that serves as a visual record of those he’s witnessed within the last five decades. “When I look into the camera’s viewfinder, something inexplicable happens: thousands of images appear in my memory,” he writes. More  ( 3 min )

Artist Lee Hyun-Joung likens her meditative renderings to pathways that prompt the eye to travel along each line. Working with Korean ink and traditional pigments on handmade Hanji paper, Lee’s practice is as contemplative as the resulting pieces, which portray heaving mounds and supple ridges reminiscent of mountains and other land formations. “My universe is poetic,” she tells Colossal, “like an inner journey. I invite you to take a walk, to follow me in these aerial views. More  ( 3 min )

As a design community, we all can’t be silent in these times. We need to be united in our fight against the war, for democracy, for those dreams that children are entitled to have when they are growing up. It’s our obligation to help as much as we can. **We are donating all proceeds** from "Interface Design Checklists" PDF to support Ukraine.  ( 4 min )

If users cannot find the answers to their questions or are not exposed to critical messaging, they will not act, and your website will fail. To prevent that from happening, you need an effective information architecture. In this article, Paul Boag provides you with a process to ensure you have precisely that.  ( 11 min )

I don’t think I’ve ever read anything from Jeremy Keith that I’ve disagreed with, but this article on CSS-Tricks from back in December really hits hard… I’d like to tell you something not to do to make your website better. Don’t add any third-party scripts to your site. That may sound extreme, but at one time it would’ve been common sense. On today’s modern web it sounds like advice from a tinfoil-hat-wearing conspiracy nut.  ( 1 min )

Learn how to create and use native web components with the Minze JavaScript framework. The post Creating Native Web Components appeared first on Codrops.  ( 7 min )

Safari Technology Preview Release 141 is now available for download for macOS Big Sur and of macOS Monterey.  ( 2 min )

From the very beginning, the web was always intended to work in any browser, on any computer.  ( 5 min )

Welcome to the start of year edition of "Progress in the Privacy Sandbox", covering January and February 2022, as we track the milestones on the path to phasing out third-party cookies in Chrome and working towards a more private web. In each edition, we share an overview of the updates to the Privacy Sandbox timeline along with news from across the project—and the beginning of 2022 has plenty of updates. # Privacy Sandbox on Android If you have been watching the Privacy Sandbox site, you may have noticed changes to the structure as we introduced the Privacy Sandbox on Android. "We’re announcing a multi-year initiative to build the Privacy Sandbox on Android, with the goal of introducing new, more private advertising solutions. Specifically, these solutions will limit sharing of user data …  ( 4 min )

Visit ChromeStatus.com for lists of current deprecations and previous removals. Chrome 100 beta was released on March 3, 2022 and is expected to become the stable version in late March, 2022. # Last Version for Unreduced User-Agent String Chromium 100 will be the last version to support an unreduced User-Agent string by default (as well as the related navigator.userAgent, navigator.appVersion, and navigator.platform DOM APIs). The origin trial that allowed sites to test the fully reduced User-Agent will end on April 19, 2022. After that date, the User-Agent String will be gradually reduced. To review the whole schedule, see Chromium Blog: User-Agent Reduction Origin Trial and Dates. Sites that need more time to test or migrate to User-Agent Client Hints can enroll in the deprecation origin…  ( 2 min )

When working on location or in the studio, Oye Diran (previously) focuses on the natural grace and emotional impulses of his subjects. The Lagos-born New York-based photographer captures portraits that are refined and composed with natural elements, centering on singular figures set against calm, scenic backdrops or surrounded by flowers and fruits. Whether a personal project or commission for a magazine or fashion brand, his photos are minimal and tinged with whimsical details conveyed through elaborate hairstyles or playful, puppet-like props. More  ( 2 min )

Artist Kiva Ford (previously) spends his days shaping minuscule vessels for chemists, engineers, and physicists. He manages the custom scientific glass shop at the University of Notre Dame, where he’s tasked with creating unique instruments designed for specific research projects. The exacting quality of these pieces is reflected in all of his hand-blown works, which range from Klein bottles and flasks to vases, pitchers, and jars holding anatomical sculptures in miniature. More  ( 2 min )

Maria Prymachenko (1908–1997) is a self-taught folk artist known for her renderings of life in the Ukrainian countryside. Her gouache and watercolor works are vibrant and imaginative, depicting symmetrical red poppies tucked in a small vase or fantastical bull-like animals sprouting two-headed snakes. Expressive and consistently advocating for peace, Prymachenko’s paintings are widely known throughout Ukraine and internationally: she received a gold medal at the Paris World Fair in 1937, when Pablo Picasso is said to have dubbed her “an artistic miracle.” Earlier this week, Russian attacks northwest of Kyiv destroyed the Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum, where about 25 of her works were housed. More  ( 3 min )

Writing Logic in CSS * Huemint * Annual Awards 2021 * Cascading Server Sheets * Automatic Musical Composition The post Collective #701 appeared first on Codrops.  ( 4 min )

Writing high quality standards is a necessary first step to an interoperable web platform, but ensuring that browsers are consistent in their behavior requires an ongoing process. Browsers must work to ensure that they have a shared understanding of web standards, and that their implementation matches that understanding. Interop 2022 is a cross-browser initiative to find and address the most important interoperability pain points on the web platform. The end result is a public metric that will assess progress toward fixing these interoperability issues. The post Announcing Interop 2022 appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.  ( 4 min )