I always thought that the semantically appropriate way to represent a rating (e.g. a star rating) is a element. They essentially convey the same type of information, the star rating is just a different presentation. However, trying to style a element to look like a star rating is …tricky at best. Not to […]  ( 4 min )

Set against the stark backdrops attainable only during blackwater dives, larval fish become strange, otherworldly specimens with glasslike bodies and translucent fins that billow outward. Their delicate, still-developing anatomies are the subjects of Steven Kovacs’s underwater photos, which frame the young creatures at such precarious stages of life. Living in Palm Beach, Kovacs (previously) frequents the waters off the Florida coasts, although he’s also recently explored areas near Kona, Hawaii. More  ( 5 min )

Many days, artist and illustrator Graham Franciose sits down with watercolor, gouache, and a small sheet of cotton paper to paint a whimsical scene or surreal moment. A skateboarder carries a tree in a backpack, an anxious figure peeks through a colorful monster mask, and an oversized lion snarls at an approaching man. “I like to do these first thing in the morning when I am still not fully awake and start with a blank slate and no preconceived idea,” he tells Colossal. More  ( 6 min )

Ospreys, the large raptors with barbed talons and dense, oily plumage, feed almost exclusively on fish and are known to completely submerge themselves in the water during a hunt. An unanticipated photo by Andy Woo, though, captures the avian predator in a botched attempt as it skims the surface rather than plunging in to retrieve its next meal. “Although I couldn’t figure out what just happened at the time, in looking at the sequence I captured, it looks to me like the osprey tried to grab a fish out of the water, missed, and then could not get enough lift to quickly get back in the air,” he tells Peta Pixel. More  ( 5 min )

This week, we looked at how to create custom events with vanilla JS, and a helper function to make things a bit easier. Today, we’re going to look at different naming conventions for custom events. To help prevent naming collisions, it’s a good idea to prefix custom events with your library or project name. // Namespaced to the Calculator library emit('calculator-add'); One common naming convention is kebab-case. // kebab-case naming emit('calculator-add'); Another convention is to put a colon (:) between the library name and the event type.  ( 3 min )

The power of framework-specific UI libraries, such as Skeleton, can lead to more productivity using the combined ability of Svelte and Tailwind to build modern web-based apps.  ( 15 min )

Felix is a graphic designer living in Stuttgart, Germany and co-founder of Bareis+Nicolaus with a passion for analogue typography, printed archives of all kinds and old stadiums with flair (Portrait by Lucas Wurmbach).  ( 6 min )

Interested in helping improve DevTools? Sign up to participate in Google User Research here. # Step-by-step replay in the Recorder You can now set a breakpoint and replay a user flow step by step in the Recorder panel. To set a breakpoint, click on the blue dot next to a step. Replay your user flow, the replay will pause before executing the step. From here, you can continue the replay, execute a step, or cancel the replay. With this feature, you can fully visualize and debug your user flow with ease. See Recorder features reference for more information. Chromium issue: 1257499 # Support mouse over event in the Recorder panel The Recorder now supports adding a mouse over (hover) step manually in a recording. This demo shows a pop up menu on hover. Try to record a user flow and click a menu…  ( 14 min )

Constellations, butterflies, and bold checkered prints overlay the animalistic forms by Anne Lemanski. Beginning with a copper armature, the North Carolina-based artist stretches vintage paper or patterns of scanned objects across a minimal metal form and stitches the edges together into a geometric patchwork. Ranging from abstract shapes to illustrations and photos, the printed motifs evoke each character’s temperament, presence, and overall essence. “Stella Terra,” for example, is sheathed in white paper, and images of animals and objects speckle the ephemeral material similar to the spotted coat of the live Appaloosa counterpart. More  ( 6 min )

A grotesquely beautiful monster with monarch wings, long feathered lashes, and a curiously large mouth has taken over a corner building in Montréal. The cheeky puppet mural is by French-Canadian artist Danaé Brissonnet in collaboration with Poncili Creacion and stands at the intersection of Boulevard Saint Laurent and Rue Marie Anne. Centered around the theme of digestion, the massive public work is a playful, metaphorical interpretation of the bodily process. “These days I’m intrigued with exploring the ways in which I nourish myself… the who and what I let inside,” Brissonnet writes on Instagram. More  ( 5 min )

We’re thrilled to announce our monthly series of workshops that explore incredible creativity from leading visual artists. We even have a shiny, new way to stay in the loop about upcoming events with our Colossal Workshops newsletter. Following the remarkable response to our forthcoming session with Hollie Chastain—which is now sold out—we look forward to inviting you to a new class next month! Colossal Members always receive a discount on registration and have access to a growing library of recordings. More  ( 4 min )

The annual Nature TTL Photographer of the Year contest garnered more than 8,000 submissions this round, with some of the most impressive images focusing on fauna in the wild and stunning light-based phenomena that illuminate nighttime skies. Taken around the globe, the winning photos demonstrate both acts of stealth and moments of serendipity. Images range from Matt Engelmann capturing an unaware dog fox as it creeps over a Swiss mountain to Mauro Tronto framing a rainbow shooting upwards from the misty Godafass waterfalls in Iceland, the glowing northern lights overhead. More  ( 5 min )

Safari Technology Preview Release 151 is now available for download for macOS Monterey 12.3 or later and macOS Ventura beta.  ( 4 min )

Yesterday, we looked at how to create custom events with vanilla JS. Today, we’re going to look at a little helper function for emitting custom events. Let’s dig in! (Today’s article is an excerpt from my ebook and course on Writing Libraries with Vanilla JS.) A simple emit() function If you’re going to emit custom events in multiple places in your library, it might be helpful to create a helper function to do most of the heavy lifting.  ( 4 min )

If you use VS Code, you might have enabled the setting for re-opening a previously open file next time the app launches. I do. I like that. Hey, thanks for remembering, buddy! 🤗 But sometimes you really, really don’t want … Quick Tip: Clear VS Code Cache for Open Files originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.  ( 4 min )

FauxPilot * Stable Fluids with three.js * Zazow * The Infinite Marquee  ( 6 min )

A bunch of creative and practical app design examples, sharing ideas on mobile user experience: check the applications solving the diversity of user problems.  ( 12 min )

In this article, the first part of “Databases for Front-end Developers” series, Atila Fassina helps you understand the concepts behind database architecture in order to use them reliably and sheds some light on serverless databases.  ( 13 min )

The Chrome DevTools Animations tab is a powerful tool that helps you slow down, replay, adjust CSS animation timings, and see the results right away. The Animations tab, while open, records animations automatically, conveniently groups them, and lets you: Replay and slow down animations to better inspect them. Adjust durations, timings, and delays by dragging points in a timeline instead of guessing and setting CSS values manually. Additionally, you can edit the easing timings and set custom cubic-bezier curve values with the Easing Editor in the Elements > Styles pane. To learn more, see Edit animation and transition timings with the Easing Editor. For a more hands-on learning experience, follow the Inspect and modify CSS animation effects guide.  ( 2 min )

Healthy fibers meet delicious decadence in Normalynn Ablao’s crocheted provisions. The California-based crafter and pattern maker is cooking up spring rolls, pies, and party-sized platters of chicken wings, crudites, and dip, all made with yarn. Like her pastas, Ablao continues to serve textured designs that mimic their edible counterparts, although she tends to have a taste for cakes, pies, and other baked goods that you can find on Instagram. More  ( 5 min )

What do an injured Kelley O’Hara and “The Incredulity of Saint Thomas” by Italian Baroque artist Mattia Preti have in common? The exasperated soccer star and 1675 religious masterpiece find unexpected synchronicity thanks to LJ Rader, the creator behind the wildly popular meme account ArtButMakeItSports. Since 2015, Rader has been cleverly pairing photos from professional sports with art historical works. What began as a personal project that involved visits to museums and some of the week’s most intensely emotional images from soccer matches or basketball games has evolved into Twitter and Instagram accounts with considerable followings and soon-to-be-released merch.  More  ( 6 min )

In the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, an enormous single-cell organism floats among the Victorian iron colonnades of the cavernous Grand Gallery. Bristol-based multidisciplinary artist Luke Jerram often explores the nature of scale and perception in his pieces (previously), and the latest installation of his inflatable sculpture “E.coli,” which has been displayed in locations around the U.K., spans 90 feet, representing the bacterium at 5 million times its actual size. More  ( 5 min )

Designing a beautiful “article” is wrought with tons of considerations. Unlike, say, a homepage, a long-form article is less about designing an interface than it is designing text in a way that creates a relaxed and comfortable reading experience. That’s … Designing for Long-Form Articles originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.  ( 11 min )

JavaScript provides developers with a way to emit custom events that developers can listen for with the Element.addEventListener() method. We can use custom events to let developers hook into the code that we write and run more code in response to when things happen. They provide a really flexible way to extend the functionality of a library or code base. Today, we’re going to learn how they work. Let’s dig in!  ( 3 min )

Let's uncover the fun and lively illustration and design process for the OK Boomer trivia game: from game design and a big bunch of characters to packaging and brand communication visuals.  ( 13 min )

Ramy Majouji is a Canadian-Tunisian product designer and front-end developer, currently leading design systems at Brex.  ( 5 min )

Polish artist NeSpoon (previously) continues to add to her expansive collection of murals that merge local craft traditions and street art. Having traveled around Europe in recent months, she’s completed pieces in France, Spain, and Italy, to name a few, and each oversized motif recreates a lace pattern sourced from a museum or resident at a massive scale. The resulting works, which are spray-painted in white, are intricate studies of the region’s florals, ornamental styles, and tatting methods and how they differ throughout cultures and eras. More  ( 5 min )

Tucked inside clear glass vessels are Ayumi Shibata’s regal architectural vistas and layered cities enveloped by trees and vines. The Japanese artist is known for her elaborately constructed paper sculptures that fill small spaces like books and jars or occupy entire rooms, all of which are alluring and immersive as they draw viewers in to the enchanting, dream-like environments. Because the artist uses solely white paper, each sculpture highlights the intricacies of her cuts, and the details are enhanced even further when illuminated. More  ( 5 min )

Although research suggests the ancient Venus figurines were created as totems of survival amid a changing climate, the enigmatic forms continue to puzzle historians, their exact cultural context and relevance unknown. The mysterious statues, with exaggerated physical features like large, distended bellies and generally plump appendages, recently inspired a playful project by Naama Steinbock and Idan Friedman, the designers behind Reddish Studio based in Tel Aviv-Jaffa. Titled “Venus of Jaffa,” the series interprets the prehistoric sculptures as lighthearted, impermanent forms. More  ( 5 min )

Many structured ways of knowing seem to roughly fall into one of several spatial structures: lists, trees, grids, and networks. Lists Lists, or sequences. These 1D data structures are found everywhere in our tools and in nature. You can build many other things out of lists.

Sometimes you come across web sites that have a lot of images scattered all over the page and you don’t care much about the content, but only want the images. You can use the browser developer tools as a media browser. Load the page you want to get the images from (here is a demo […]  ( 2 min )

Last week, I somewhat flippantly wrote… Honestly, the only difference between a junior and senior developer is that you get better at identifying all the places where your code goes to shit. My friend Sarah Dayan (the brilliant dev behind dinero.js) politely took me to task for such a simplified definition. After climbing this ladder myself, having worked with many devs from intern to principal level, and contributed to the promotion process of multiple coworkers, I see many other areas that distinguish juniors from seniors.  ( 4 min )

Identify, compare, analyze and fix your Core Web Vitals scores to boost web performance of your sites. These tools will help you to do just that.  ( 13 min )

In this episode, we ask how you can affect change to UX design in large organizations stuck in their ways. Vitaly talks to Marko Dugonjić to find out.  ( 27 min )

The time for CSS-Tricks is over. Now is the time for CSS Crimes! In this current landscape of content service providers, users are often limited to expressing themselves in text, links, and images. Sanitization rules tend to strip out HTML, … Committing CSS Crimes originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.  ( 3 min )

Less human intervention and error-prone processes. More productivity and automation. Let @fullstory explain:  ( 8 min )

Participating in open source can be overwhelming, tricky, even scary. But @rosejudge5 has a way to unlock any open source anxiety and dive in:  ( 11 min )

Maintainers are expected to be consummate generalists, but in order for open source to be sustainable, @swyx suggests we rethink this and start with a simple file called MAINTAINERS.md:  ( 9 min )

Focus on adding cool features and leave tests, linting/style checks, code coverage, building artifacts, and new releases to GitHub Actions. @kartar explains how:  ( 7 min )

Java has been declared dead many times—and yet, it’s still going strong, undergoing what some might call a renaissance from both a technology and ecosystem perspective. Learn more on The ReadME Pro...  ( 12 min )

Supporting and sharing different perspectives and opinions is foundational to @KaraAJC, and imperative for a healthy and inclusive OSS community:  ( 7 min )

Concentric circles in bold gradients, spiraling lines, and bright radial motifs by Australian-Canadian artist Elspeth McLean transform stones into endlessly hypnotic designs. Impeccably arranged on the flat, round objects, the patterns are comprised of countless individual dots in varying sizes and hues. Having veered away from the stippling technique she used in her earlier paintings, McLean refers to her style as “dotillism,” which is similar to pointillism in the shapes it relies on, although the artist prefers to work with exact colors rather than layer them to produce an illusion of specific tones. More  ( 5 min )

Spontaneity, honesty, and a desire for experimentation are at the heart of an ongoing project by  Christoffer Relander, whose dreamy compositions masterfully blend portraiture and nature. 365 Days of Double Exposure is Relander’s practice of documenting life around him, whether that be the mundane scenes inside his home or the landscapes and people he encounters. Like other daily projects in a similar vein, the goal is to create no matter the circumstances, and Relander carries a pocket-sized Ricoh GRIII with him to capture impromptu moments throughout the day. More  ( 5 min )

From her studio in Paris, artist Julie Bergeron hand-builds amorphous stoneware vessels that mimic a wide array of creatures and lifeforms found in nature. Hollow ducts and pointed spines cover the surfaces of the cavernous forms, ambiguously evoking seed pods, tropical fruits like rambutan or durian, and small marine organisms. “I have fun mixing types, blurring the tracks… Are we in the vegetal, animal, microscopic, or human world? The borders become undefined,” she tells Colossal. More  ( 5 min )

Founded in 1944, Graphis archives and promotes talent in design, photography, art, and advertising.  ( 3 min )

On Friday, I wrote that the major differences between junior and senior developers is their ability to fix broken code. Honestly, the only difference between a junior and senior developer is that you get better at identifying all the places where your code goes to shit. There’s a bit more to it than that, of course, and we’ll talk more about that tomorrow. But how do you get better at figuring out why your code isn’t working, and how to fix it?  ( 4 min )

Creating a grid of images is easy, thanks to CSS Grid. But making the grid do fancy things after the images have been placed can be tricky to pull off. Say you want to add some fancy hover effect to … Zooming Images in a Grid Layout originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.  ( 12 min )

In this article, Catherine Houle and Ilknur Eren share how their organization “Understood” removes barriers for people who learn and think differently by combining accessibility and usability in their processes. They also cover basic steps on how to fix common accessibility issues.  ( 15 min )

Every browser these days comes with built-in developer tools that help people create, test and fix products for the web. You can right-click any website and select `Inspect` to get to them, press `F12` or `CMD + Shift + I on Mac` or `Ctrl + Shift + I` on Windows/Linux. These tools are for developers, […]  ( 3 min )

Dimitris Koliadimas is the Founder and Creative Director of Semiotik Design Agency, headquartered in Thessaloniki, Greece. Co-Founder of the Designers United and Semiotik, winner of awards, including D&AD, Type Directors Club and Art Directors Club. He has collaborated with exceptional people, brands and organisations around the world providing a wide range of design and consulting services, performing in complex environments and achieving remarkable results.  ( 4 min )

The Division of Birds, housed inside Chicago’s Field Museum, boasts one of the largest scientific avian collections in the country, representing about 90% of the world’s genera and species and containing more than 480,000 specimens, 21,000 egg sets, and approximately 200 nests. A group show opening this month at Paradigm Gallery + Studio in Philadelphia references this unparalleled archive in a celebration of feathered life. Curated by Colossal’s founder and editor-in-chief Christopher Jobson, Division of Birds is comprised of dozens of works in a range of styles and mediums. More  ( 5 min )

Cradled within wooden boxes, leaves, blossoms, animals, and the occasional bit of human anatomy form the dense topographies of Melis Buyruk (previously). The Turkish artist blends various organic elements into sprawling, monochromatic works made of porcelain that are mesmerizing in intricacy with slightly unearthly undertones. In multiple recent works like the “Blooming Light” and “Golden Bloom,” for example, a single ear appears amidst the mosses and foliage, embedding the fragmented human body part within the largely floral ecosystem. More  ( 5 min )

In his ongoing Spectral series, Las Vegas-based photographer Cody Cobb projects an ultraviolet light source across desert shrubs and secluded, rocky coves, unveiling an invisible spectrum of blues and oranges. Lichens, fallen leaves, and the bacteria growing from lava tubes become radiant lifeforms and transform locations in Washington, Utah, California, and New Mexico into otherworldly landscapes. Focused on organic matter like mineral deposits and plants, Cobb’s photos expose what he describes as a “parallel world,” where the UV light allows an extraterrestrial eeriness to emerge. More  ( 5 min )

In the beginning, there was the nursery.  ( 6 min )

I’ve worked with a lot of students over the last few years. Some of them have been completely new to web development. Others were experienced developers who mostly worked in other languages and wanted to learn JavaScript. Honestly, the only difference between a junior and senior developer is that you get better at identifying all the places where your code goes to shit. When you’re a senior developer, stuff still goes wrong pretty often.  ( 3 min )

CSS Scroll Snap allows websites to snap the web page or any other scroll container to a specific scroll position when the user performs a scrolling operation. This feature has been supported in all modern browsers for over two years, … How I Added Scroll Snapping To My Twitter Timeline originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 9 min )

Valerie Fuchs is a Software Developer at WeTransfer and Snacksplainer at Cafe Robot, the first non-awkward Computer Club.  ( 5 min )

July 2022 was a bit of a country music song. A friend’s brother passed away while she was visiting, nearly everyone we know got COVID, took my broken guitar to get fixed by the guy that fixes Willie’s guitar, got a flat tire on the family car, the oil change on my pickup truck turned into thousands of dollars worth of repairs, and I lost my AirPods. Somehow, despite all that, July was a good month. Escape to California In mid-July we escaped the Texas heat and headed to gloomy sunny San Diego, California for my wife’s birthday. My wife grew up going to Mission Beach every summer, so upon marriage I inherited a family vacation to San Diego. We went every year until our son was three and then we were juggling small babies and the entire extended family couldn’t fit under one roof, so it fel…  ( 4 min )

Apple unveiled an expanded version of its San Francisco system font at WWDC 2022. Then, last month, Jim Nielsen zeroed in on the font’s variations, explaining how the font provides a spectrum of variations based on the width and weight… Actually, the San Francisco Typeface Does Ship as a Variable Font originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 4 min )

With speech interfaces becoming more of a thing, it’s worth exploring some of the things we can do with speech interactions. Like, what if we could say something and have that transcribed and pumped out as a downloadable PDF? Well, … Converting Speech to PDF with NextJS and ExpressJS originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 11 min )

The ordinary collides with the bizarre in Ben Zank’s photography. Set on the street, on construction sites, or in grassy fields, his surreal images capture subjects in unequivocally inconvenient positions: A businessman finds himself trapped under a concrete block, a wood pile stacks atop one figure, and another precariously grasps the edge of a sinkhole. Often hiding their faces behind barriers or through a distinctly avoidant turn of the head, Zank anonymizes his subjects, making their awkward predicaments appear all the more inevitable and bound to happen to unassuming passersby. More  ( 5 min )

In regions throughout Europe, ancient religions often welcomed solstices and equinoxes by crafting elaborate garments that evoked different points in the agricultural cycle. Bulky suits of fur and hide might reference the slow movements of winter’s dormancy, while the straw dresses associated with the Tafarrón festival ask for fertility in the coming year. More vibrant iterations with patterns and towering headdresses are known as boteiros, or the centuries-old garments associated with the entroido of the Viana do Bollo region in Spain. More  ( 6 min )

I recently had the pleasure of chatting with Fredrik Björeman from the Kodsnack podcast about about the joys (and challenges) of vanilla JS. Fredrik and I talked about how I became the vanilla JS guy, why I hate that joke website, why devs tend to use so many libraries, and why vanilla JS (or something more vanilla, anyways) is often a better choice. Click here to listen to the whole episode.  ( 3 min )

How to improve authentication UX, with magic links, 2FA, better password recovery and relaxed rules for secure, accessible and usable passwords.  ( 14 min )

Visit ChromeStatus.com for lists of current deprecations and previous removals. Chrome 105 beta was released on August 4, 2022 and is expected to become the stable version in late August, 2022. # Remove WebSQL in non-secure contexts WebSQL in non-secure contexts is deprecated. The Web SQL Database standard was first proposed in April 2009 and abandoned in November 2010. Gecko never implemented this feature and WebKit deprecated it in 2019. The W3C encourages Web Storage and IndexedDb for those needing alternatives. Developers should expect that WebSQL itself will be deprecated and removed when usage is low enough. For more information, see Deprecating Web SQL. # CSS default keyword is disallowed in custom identifiers The CSS keyword 'default' is no longer allowed within CSS custom identifi…  ( 4 min )

The new Performance insights panel in DevTools is an experiment that addresses your pain points when analysing the performance of your website. This is a preview feature from Chrome 102. Our team is actively working on this feature and we are looking for your feedback for further enhancements. The new Performance insights panel does the following: Streamlines performance data and focuses on three key metrics: Core Web Vitals. Supports use-case-driven analysis. Identifies issues and suggests actionable insights. Doesn't require deep browser expertise to use. With the Performance insights panel, boost the performance of your website in three steps: Record the performance. Get a straightforward overview. Identify performance issues at a glance and get a list of actionable insights on how to fix them. Watch the video above to learn how to record the performance, navigate the overview, and get insights. To understand the three key metrics, see Core Web Vitals. For a more hands-on learning experience, follow the Get actionable insights on your website's performance tutorial.  ( 2 min )

:has(): the family selector * Vertex Shader Displacement * Svelvet  ( 6 min )

A simple scroll effect and page transition inspired by Vitalii Burhonskyi's Dribbble shot.  ( 5 min )

Artist Sharif Bey centers his practice around recontextualizing, a process he undertakes by fracturing long-held perspectives through fragments. His figurative sculptures unify disparate materials and broad cultural references across generations and eras—his works are notably undated—drawing on both the aesthetics of West-Central Africa, particularly the spiritual protectors known as nkisi, and the industrial histories of his family and current city of Syracuse. Largely crafted around bits of his own ceramic vessels, Bey’s works are on view at Toronto’s Gardiner Museum in a solo exhibition titled Colonial Ruptures, which questions the inherent value and power of objects, particularly as they’re stripped from their original cultures through colonial violence and structural racism. More  ( 6 min )

Artists know this story well: an opportunity opens for an exhibition or a festival and in goes the application, but all that comes back is a rejection letter. While one or two letters of this kind might be easy to dismiss, they weigh heavily on one’s mind if they start to pile up. Animator Anna Samo taps into the unique emotional and mental fatigue endured by creatives who keep hitting roadblocks. In her stop-motion film “Conversations with a Whale,” she turns the prospect of a “no” into a fresh perspective on growth. More  ( 5 min )

Chips are the clearest example that economic efficiencies will not be the ultimate decider of technology's end state: politics will play an important role.  ( 16 min )

Reduction. Ethics. Didactics.  ( 3 min )

We’re going to walk through how to migrate your site from jQuery to [React](/category/React) with [Next.js](/category/next.js). This will help with performance and the maintainability of your code.  ( 15 min )

Thanos Kagkalos aka MotionPunk,  is a 3D artist/motion design director based in Athens, Greece. Driven by curiosity, always on the lookout for new visual languages.  ( 3 min )

Chrome 105 introduces two new methods on the NavigateEvent of the Navigation API (introduced in 102) to improve on methods that have proved problematic in practice. intercept(), which let's developers control the state following the navigation, replaces transitionWhile(), which proved difficult to use. The scroll() method, which scrolls to an anchor specified in the URL, replaces restoreScroll() which does not work for all types of navigation. In this article, I'll explain the problems with both and how the new methods fix those problems. # NavigateEvent.transitionWhile() The NavigateEvent.trasitionWhile() method, introduced with the Navigation API in Chrome 102, intercepts navigation for client-side transitions in single page apps. Its first argument is a promise that signals to the brows…  ( 4 min )

Container queries and :has() are a match made in responsive heaven. Luckily, both of these features are landing together in Chromium 105. This is a huge release with two highly-requested features for responsive interfaces! # Container Queries: a quick summary Container queries enable developers to query a parent selector for its size and styling information, making it possible for a child element to own its responsive styling logic, no matter where it lives on a web page. Instead of relying on the viewport for styling input such as available space, developers now have the ability to query the size of in-page elements too. This capability means that a component owns its responsive styling logic. This makes the component much more resilient, as the styling logic is attached to it, no matter …  ( 4 min )

Since time began (In CSS terms), we've worked with a cascade in various senses. Our styles compose a "Cascading Style Sheet". And our selectors cascade too. They can go sideways. In most cases they go downwards. But never upwards. For years, we've fantasized about a "Parent selector". And now it's finally coming! In the shape of a :has() pseudo selector. The :has() CSS pseudo-class represents an element if any of the selectors passed as parameters match at least one element. But, it's more than a "parent" selector. That's a nice way to market it. The not so appealing way might be the "conditional environment" selector. But that doesn't have quite the same ring to it. How about the "family" selector? # Browser Support Before we go any further, it's worth mentioning browser support. It's not…  ( 8 min )

A bold, conical structure stands on The Donum Estate in Sonoma Valley, casting a vibrant kaleidoscope of 24 colors underneath its canopy. The work of Studio Other Spaces—artist Olafur Eliasson (previously) and architect Sebastian Behmann co-founded the Berlin-based project in 2014— “Vertical Panorama Pavilion” is “inspired by the history of circular calendars,” containing 832 glass pieces arranged around an oculus opening to the north. Drawing on the microclimate of the vineyard, the studio constructed the mosaic of translucent and transparent panels using meteorological measurements of solar radiance, wind intensity, temperature, and humidity. More  ( 5 min )

There have been only two documented sightings of the elusive Chirodectes maculatus, a large, soccer ball-sized jellyfish with distinct spotted markings, the second of which was captured late last year by divers from Scuba Kavieng. In what is believed to be the first recording, the video shows the extremely rare animal, which has four clusters of striped tentacles, rings covering its body, and a pulsing patch of red on its bell that’s likely a digestive cavity, as it swims near the coast of Papua New Guinea. More  ( 5 min )

We are announcing an update to the Speedometer benchmark.  ( 2 min )

If you work on or manage a team, I wanted to let you know about two newish ways I can help you on your next project. Ever wish you had a trusted JavaScript expert you could ask questions whenever you felt stuck on something or just needed someone to bounce a few ideas off of? With JavaScript consulting, you get unlimited access to me by phone, email, and chat. Throughout the duration of your project, I’ll be available to review progress, answer questions, and generally keep the code clean from the outset.  ( 3 min )

Dave Rupert with some modern CSS magic that tackles one of those classic conundrums: what happens when the CSS for component is unable to handle the content we throw at it? The specific situation is when a layout grid expects … Implicit Grids, Repeatable Layout Patterns, and Danglers originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 3 min )

Learn how to use CSS Scan to easily copy styles and markup of any element on a website.  ( 10 min )

I'm just going to write some memories of Josh. The mundane, everyday things. The stuff I'll slowly, inevitably forget, because I'm not sure…  ( 11 min )

Here's what you need to know: You can now specify a crop area using region capture when using getDisplayMedia() to capture the current tab. Media query syntax can be written using mathematical comparison operators. Shared Element Transitions starts an origin trial. And there's plenty more. I'm Pete LePage. Let's dive in and see what's new for developers in Chrome 104. # Specify a crop area with region capture getDisplayMedia() makes it possible to create a video stream from the current tab. But, there are times when you don’t want the entire tab, only a small portion of it. Until now, the only way to do that was to manually crop each video frame. With Region Capture, a web app can define the specific area of the screen it wants to share. For example, Google Slides could allow you to stay i…  ( 5 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 Faena Prize for the Arts (International) More  ( 8 min )

In The Netherlands in the 17th Century, a Golden Age was in full swing. The economy of the Dutch Republic, as it was then known, was flourishing as Antwerp and other ports became important hubs for the commercial shipping trade, importing and exporting textiles, spices, and metals, and the cities’ populations swelled. Elaborately detailed oil paintings depicting food on the table or incredible flower arrangements were popular additions to wealthy merchants’ homes, yet a more ominous genre of still-life painting also emerged amid this period of immense growth. More  ( 6 min )

In some ways, Caledonia Curry’s work as a public artist has come full circle, an evolution she discusses in a new interview supported by Colossal Members. Curry debuted as a New York City street artist known as Swoon right around the turn of the last century, her hand-worked portraits making striking, albeit illegal, statements on old walls. Today, she harnesses that same energy into intricate—and intimate—installations set in museums and galleries. When I look at a face for days, when I take a portrait of somebody on the street, and then I stare at that face for days and days, there’s this part of my brain that’s like, “This human is utterly perfect. More  ( 5 min )

On vintage ledgers and notebooks, artist Albert Chamillard (previously) harnesses the power of crosshatching and simple outlines to render flat, geometric shapes that appear to emerge from the page. The meditative works utilize varying densities to add depth and volume to clusters of cylinders or undulating, ribbon-like forms. By rendering each piece in a monochromatic palette of black or red, the artist draws attention to the meticulously laid lines and deceptive dimension of the forms. More  ( 5 min )

When working with CSS Grid, the first thing to do is to set display: grid on the element that we want to be become a grid container. Then we explicitly define the grid using a combination of grid-template-columns, grid-template-rows… Exploring CSS Grid’s Implicit Grid and Auto-Placement Powers originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 18 min )

If you like math and CSS, you’ll love this one. We don’t need to use media queries to change the values of some CSS properties — *font-size*, *padding*, *margin* etc. — depending on the viewport width, with the CSS `clamp` function. But: we still need to use media queries for changing colors, borders, shadows and other CSS styles.  ( 16 min )

Malee attended Parsons the New School of Design and graduated with a BBA in Design and Management. She is an entrepreneur and worked in branding in New York City before co-founding Sharp Type where she handles strategy, brand management, graphic design, sales, and communication. Malee is the founder of The Malee Scholarship, a non-profit offering financial support, and mentorship to women of color entering the type industry.  ( 6 min )

Until now, the Async Clipboard API supported a limited set of MIME types to be copied to and pasted from the system clipboard, specifically: text/plain, text/html, and image/png. The browser typically sanitizes this to, for example, remove embedded script elements or javascript: links from an HTML string, or to prevent PNG decompression bomb attacks. In some cases, though, it can be desirable to support unsanitized content on the clipboard: Situations where the application deals with the sanitization itself. Situations where it's crucial for the copied data to be identical with the pasted data. For such cases, the Async Clipboard API now supports web custom formats that let developers write arbitrary data to the clipboard. # Browser support The Async Clipboard API per se with image support…  ( 3 min )

A thought experiment! Let's reimagine the web with r-selected thinking.

Do you need a little inspiration boost? Well, then our new batch of desktop wallpapers is for you. Designed by artists and designers from across the globe, they come in versions with and without a calendar for August 2022.  ( 15 min )

A fresh set of inspirational websites that have an outstanding design.  ( 5 min )

JavaScript relies on garbage collection (GC) to reclaim memory.  ( 40 min )

Chris calls scroll shadows one his favorite CSS-Tricks of all time. Lea Verou popularized the pure CSS approach using four layered background gradients with some clever background-attachment magic. The result is a slick scrolling interaction that gives users a hint … Scroll Shadows? Pure CSS Parallax? Game Back On. originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 3 min )

Today, we’re going to look at the Array.filter() method, and how you can use it to filter items in array and create a new one. Let’s dig in! An example Let’s imagine you have an array of numbers. let numbers = [1, 42, 7, 3, 99, 101, 4]; You want to create a new array that contains only the numbers that are bigger than 10. Traditionally, you might use a for.  ( 4 min )

I’m not dying, but before I do I want to share with you — future generations of rockers — what I know about putting on a live music rock show. The audience’s energy will match your energy. If you stand like a turd on the stage, they audience will stand like a bunch of turds. If you bob your head, they’ll bob their heads. If you move around, they’ll move around. If you show low confidence, they’ll have low confidence in you and start checking out. Don’t let your band drama show on stage. Every band has drama, but don’t let it show on stage. The audience isn’t there for that. Practice setting up and tearing down efficiently. Don’t make the audience wait and don’t be “that guy” who drags out setup extra long as some weirdo passive-aggressive attention seeking move. See previous rule. No matter how big the stage, setup as close to each other as possible. Look and feel like a combined unit of people making music. Trust me, it will be more impressive. The bassist and the drummer should stand next to each other. It’s all about the bass guitar and the kick drum locking in together. Never leave the van unattended during load-in or load-out. If you haven’t had your gear stolen at this point, it’s a miracle. Lead guitar gets the attention, but the bass guitar brings the sex. Flashy medleys get attention, but people feel the bass, no matter how boring. Don’t riff stage banter. It’s hard to be witty on the fly unless you are very, very witty. Have some prepared goofs or smalltalk. Make friends with the soundboard operator. This person ultimately controls how good you sound and can make or break you. “Come forward to the stage” is at best a one-time suggestion. You can’t control people, never ask more than once.  ( 2 min )

Ecuadorian artist Beto Val alchemizes vintage illustrations into bizarre compositions that blend fruits with fowl and aquatic life with land animals. Using imagery available through the public domain, Val cuts and repositions fins, wings, and scaly talons into surreal creatures: round owl faces peer out from pineapples, autumn leaves sprout from tropical birds, and a rendering evocative of a biological chart displays fish with bodies made of strawberries, brains, and an early, industrial locomotive. More  ( 5 min )

Temporarily occupying the site of the ancient Housesteads Roman Gatehouse at Hadrian’s Wall, a vibrant installation by British artist Morag Myerscough recreates the structure that once stood on the bucolic landscape in northern England. “The Future Belongs To What Was As Much As What Is” is a bright, architectural reinterpretation of the 2nd-century building, reaching the same 8.5 meters high and 12.5 meters wide as the original construction.  A staircase tucked inside the scaffolding allows visitors to climb to an upper outpost and look over the landscape, offering a view that’s been unavailable for the last 1,600 years. More  ( 5 min )

Despite thousands of years of research and an unending fascination with marine creatures, humans have explored only five percent of the oceans covering the majority of the earth’s surface. A forthcoming book from Phaidon dives into the planet’s notoriously vast and mysterious aquatic ecosystems, traveling across the continents and three millennia to uncover the stunning diversity of life below the surface. Spanning 352 pages, Ocean, Exploring the Marine World brings together a broad array of images and information ranging from ancient nautical cartography to contemporary shots from photographers like Sebastião Salgado and David Doubilet. More  ( 6 min )

At the beginning of the pandemic, Joe McCann wrote a speculative future piece called The New, New World Order (use a private tab if Medium paywalls you). Predicting the future or forecasting trends is never exact work, but Joe made some thought-provoking claims even if everything doesn’t pan out as predicted. My favorite claim —and the one I still think about today— was the one about Cloud-work vs. Land-work. Dividing the labor force based on whether you you work on the cloud or you work on the land is some sci-fi shit. A new dichotomy for a new era. I can already imagine cloud workers wearing silver jumpsuits and land workers wearing beige jumpsuits. Jokes aside, I find Cloud-work vs. Land-work an innovative way to frame job types. It breaks away from the tired “blue collar” and “white c…  ( 2 min )

It’s no secret that MDN rolled out a new design back in March. It’s gorgeous! And there are some sweet CSS-y gems in it that are fun to look at. One of those gems is how card components handle truncated … Recreating MDN’s Truncated Text Effect originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 6 min )

The Study of Shaders with React Three Fiber * DOM ready events considered harmful * PrimeReact  ( 7 min )

Today, we’re going to look at the Array.map() method, and how you can use it to create new arrays from existing ones. Let’s dig in! An example Imagine you have an array of numbers. let numbers = [1, 4, 9]; You want to create a new array with the values doubled. Traditionally, you might use a for...of loop and the Array.push() method to handle this for you. // Create a new array let doubled = []; // Double each value and push it into the new array for (let num of numbers) { doubled.  ( 4 min )

Testing is not just about tools and processes. It’s about architecture. In this article, Noam Rosenthal will share his experience on how to organize testing and find the right balance between front-end and subsystems and between different strategies.  ( 15 min )

Since 2019, the annual State of CSS survey has collected feedback from web developers from across the world to try and take the pulse of the CSS ecosystem, and it’s become a valuable resource not only for CSS developers, but also for browser vendors. This summer, one of my side projects is helping out with survey […]  ( 3 min )

Oleg Frolov is an interaction designer who loves experimenting with cutting-edge technology and designing simple, delightful experiences. In his spare time, he develops video games and plays OP-Z.  ( 6 min )

The Console API allows you to log various messages to the Console from your JavaScript. The Console, in turn, has various useful display options. Watch the following video to learn all the skills. With the Console API, you can: Log, filter, and group the messages. Interact with the current page. Log variables. Log and display object in various formats: tables, HTML elements, JSON objects. Count function calls. Display stack traces. Measure the time elapsed between two points in code. For a more hands-on learning experience, follow the Log messages in the Console interactive tutorial. For a comprehensive list of all the Console API methods, see the Console API reference.  ( 2 min )

The Chrome Web Store is home to themes and extensions for a growing number of web businesses. To accommodate the needs of these publishers, we are rolling out a revamped item analytics experience for the Chrome Web Store Developer Dashboard. # Simple and easy to understand at a glance The improved analytics dashboard is designed to be easily scannable and understandable. To this end, the visualizations and graphs have been updated with simplicity in mind. The former "Stats" tab has been rearranged and reorganized into 3 separate pages: "Installs & Uninstalls," "Impressions," and "Weekly Users." Each of these pages has a top-level graph showing the most important metric for the tab and supplemental breakout data beneath the main graph. The visualizations on the dashboard have been pared dow…  ( 3 min )

Encircled in roughly textured bark, thin woodcuts become canvases for the whimsical landscapes and scenes illustrated by Melpomeni Chatzipanagiotou. The Greek artist uses a combination of pen, ink, gouache, and acrylic paint to draw outdoor vignettes cloaked in pattern and cosmic details. Nighttime skies are brimming with snowflakes, stars, and light trails that illuminate the natural subject matter and add a dose of fantasy to the heavily patterned works. Chatzipanagiotou has a number of illustrations on wood and paper available on Etsy, and you can watch her at work on Instagram. More  ( 5 min )

Seasons and the natural rhythms of bees determine much of Ava Roth’s practice, which hinges on collaborating with the fuzzy pollinators. The Ontario-based artist (previously) stitches elaborate embroideries with beads and intricate thread-based motifs that, once her contribution is complete, she turns over to her insect counterparts. The critters then finish the mixed-media pieces by embedding them in golden, hexagonal honeycomb. Because the bees Roth works with only produce the waxy substance during the heat of the summer, the time available for inter-species cooperation is limited. More  ( 6 min )

Kangaroos, koalas, and the venomous platypus take on peculiarly acrobatic personas in a new series of oil paintings by Bruno Pontiroli (previously). In Expression Corporelle, the French artist renders a cast of gymnast-emulating animals native to Australia, each with unusually strong appendages and flexible backs. The creatures balance on their tails and bend at perfect 90-degree angles, defying physics in favor of warped perspectives and the opportunity to see the world from a different point of view. More  ( 5 min )

Safari Technology Preview Release 150 is now available for download for macOS Monterey 12.3 or later and macOS Ventura beta.  ( 3 min )

This summer marks the summer my kids got online. I gave them “the talk” and set down some ground rules. Never send a photo of yourself to a stranger. What you say online is the same as saying it in person. If you’re a mean person online, it’s the same as being mean in person. No spamming. Conversations are a back and forth. It’s okay to leave the chatroom if you’re uncomfortable. Hopefully this sets a good foundation for “being online”. It’s earlier than we planned, but with friends’ travel schedules, COVID quarantines, and Texas heat advisories; parent-initiated Zooms and FaceTimes weren’t scaling. We’re now letting the kids self-govern their online hangouts through FaceTime and Messenger Kids. We’ve been conservative about what our kids can do with their devices (time limits, age/content restrictions, parent approval to download/buy, no open chat, etc) and some of those levers will stay in place, but it’s the beginning of a new era. There’s already been some timezone-related 5:00 AM calls made, but hopefully with a bit more nudging around social norms this goes well.  ( 2 min )

Last week, I had a discussion with some web friends about how the abbr element actually sucks for accessibility. The abbr element is supposed to be used to denote an abbreviation or acronym. If you include a title attribute, you can describe what the abbreviation or acronym means. It’s surfaced as a tooltip in certain browsers on hover. CSS The thing is… the abbr element sucks, and you probably shouldn’t use it.  ( 3 min )

Today we shared an updated plan and timeline for Privacy Sandbox for the web and the path towards phasing out third-party cookies. Your feedback as web developers and site owners has been instrumental in demonstrating the importance of spending more time to get the proposals right and ensuring there's enough opportunity to test, integrate, and optimize the new solutions. This post includes more detail on testing plans, including our intent to increase the traffic volume in the unified Privacy Sandbox Relevance and Measurement origin trial in August, and extend the duration of the trial. Since the start of the Privacy Sandbox initiative we've seen engagement from hundreds of developers, companies, and others across the W3C, industry events, our Chrome-hosted office hours, proposal repos, an…  ( 8 min )

Immersed in the flora of Cape Town’s Table Mountain as a child, artist Shannon Clegg has always had an affinity for unembellished, humble materials, particularly those harvested naturally and shaped into innovative forms. This now lifelong inclination emerges in Bouquet, her series of biophilic sculptures comprised of dozens of flowers dried and pressed into intricately constructed mesh. Hollow and vase-like, the preserved works extend the vibrancy and supple forms of purple statice or burgundy kangaroo paw from approximately ten days to upwards of five years. More  ( 5 min )

Thin, structural lines delineate a magpie wing and contour a child’s nose or cheekbone in Taquen’s murals. Working with a color palette of pastels and neutral tones, the Spanish artist (previously) paints large-scale portraits, fragments of limbs, and birds, often leaving the composition’s skeletal forms visible. “The supports are just as important as the work itself,” he tells Colossal. “I look for camouflage, minimalism, and mixture. In the end, it is also a metaphorical form of the footprint that I believe we should leave in the places we pass through.” Many of Taquen’s works consider the relationship between species through the lens of movement and impulse, focusing on gesture, touch, and instinctive acts. More  ( 5 min )

Finnish artist Raija Jokinen (previously) echoes the natural shapes of botanics and anatomy in her elaborately formed figures. The sculptural works are comprised of sprawling webs that appear like both root and vein systems, with flowers and more dense, fleshy patches emerging from an arm or torso. Each piece fuses the physical and mental, Jokinen says, sharing that her “approach is focused on everyday feelings, situations, and thoughts we all have.” The mesh works are created from flax—Jokinen employs a technique similar to that used for handmade paper—that she dyes and molds into branches, twigs, and other organic forms. More  ( 5 min )

This month we launched a waitlist for Luro. For simplicity’s sake on our Eleventy-powered site, we felt like Netlify Forms was a slam dunk for getting the waitlist up and running in a couple minutes by adding a netlify attribute to our waitlist form. ... form goes here ... Netlify now intercepts these form requests, stores the results in a waitlist table, and lets us download them as a CSV. Huzzah. CSVs are great and all, they power the business world, but we wanted to take it one step further and update a Notion database whenever someone uses the form. This gives us a lil’ impromptu CRM for adding metadata and tracking invite statuses internally when those start going out. Sounds like a job for Zapier? Yes! You can tota…  ( 4 min )

One often-repeated refrain from the React crowd is “build JSX into the browser, you cowards!” And I’ve never quite understood that, because JSX already is built into the browser… as template literals. Let’s dig in! What is JSX? JSX is a syntax extension to JavaScript that’s used to create elements in React. Consider the traditional way of generating a multiline HTML string. let greeting = ' Hello, world! ' + ' How are you today?  ( 4 min )

Fabio Biesel is an Art Director and founder at Studio Fabio Biesel and also founder of SFB-FONTS. Instagram: @studiofabiobiesel  ( 3 min )

CSS nesting is a convenience syntax addition that allows CSS to be added inside of a ruleset. If you've used SCSS, Less or Stylus, then you've most certainly seen a few flavors of this: .nesting { color: hotpink; > .is { color: rebeccapurple; > .awesome { color: deeppink; } } } Which after being compiled to regular CSS by the preprocessor, turns into regular CSS like this: .nesting { color: hotpink; } .nesting > .is { color: rebeccapurple; } .nesting > .is > .awesome { color: deeppink; } An official CSS version of this syntax is being strongly considered and we have a split in preference that we'd like to employ the help of the community to break the tie. The rest of this post will be introducing the syntax options so you can feel informed to take a survey at …  ( 7 min )

Suspended from an undulating metal rod, two translucent patchwork curtains of prescription eyeglasses evoke the gleaming shimmer of a waterfall. The disorienting installation is the second in a series of optical works by Canadian artists Caitlind r.c. Brown and Wayne Garrett (previously), who created a smaller kinetic piece centered around the concept of collective vision back in 2015. Larger in scale and greater in material than the first, “And Between Us, An Ocean” utilizes 30,000 recycled polycarbonate plastic lenses sourced from a Beijing factory and Calgary recycling center. More  ( 5 min )

Chattanooga, Tennessee-based artist Hollie Chastain is known for layering found photographs, book pages, and other ephemera into textured, mixed-media collages. This month, Chastain joins Colossal for a virtual workshop on paper scaling, or the process of cutting small, rounded forms from the humble material. In our session, we will spend an hour learning how to add shadow and dimension to both a solid color and portrait, and attendees will leave with a few additional tips and tricks for future projects. More  ( 5 min )

Since March 2020, artist and designer Sho Shibuya has fostered a ritualistic creative practice of painting the morning sunrise on the cover of The New York Times, a routine he describes in a new interview supported by Colossal Members. The daily project was born out of lockdown and the COVID-19 pandemic, although it’s evolved into a broad body of work that transcends the artist’s original intent for the pieces. More  ( 5 min )

In this article, Olushuyi explores a mental model that helps you decide between the `` and ` ` elements when writing documents. You will explore how grouping content affects accessibility and how you can make it all count for users.  ( 32 min )

NodeLists and HTMLCollections are two types of array-like collections of objects. They work similarly, with a few notable differences, and can both be looped through with a for...of loop. Today, I want to talk about the difference between static and live collections of DOM nodes in JavaScript. Let’s dig in! (Why there are so many different array-like collections of things in JavaScript is another article for another day.) Sample HTML Let’s imagine you have some HTML that looks like this.  ( 4 min )

Y’know that situation where you tell the client, “Here’s your website and you can edit those four (4) little homepage features in the CMS” and the client says “Okay okay okay” and you check the site a week later and it looks bad because the client —despite your incredible documentation— put an odd number of items in the feature grid. It’s a major minor problem that’s tough to explain to the client, but it all comes down to… The dangler. Odd number grids are a sore point in Responsive Design. Even numbered grids collapse easily from 4 columns → 2 columns → 1 column, but odd numbered grids leave you with one extra column to figure out. You have two choices: drop the odd column to its own row or take the coward’s route and convert 3 columns → 1 column prematurely at ~800px. If you take that r…  ( 4 min )

This summer has been hot. Not the hottest summer I’ve had in Texas but hot enough. More worryingly, it’s another summer in what looks like a trend of increasingly hot summers due to unstoppable climate change. It’s hot enough that the grass is dying in places that don’t have shade. The heat is so exhausting we’re making trips to cooler states in the summer to escape, ironically those trips are on planes, which exacerbates the climate problem. I’m desperate to figure out a way I can help. I keep researching what ascetic life changes I could make to have the biggest impact. I could go vegan tomorrow if it made a big difference… but… and I hate to be a cynic… but one dude in Texas changing his diet isn’t going to save the Earth. It wouldn’t even move the needle. My biggest point of frustratio…  ( 3 min )

I’ve just started reading Inventing the Internet by Janet Abbate. The opening chapters are great, narrating Paul Baran’s efforts at RAND to design a nationwide communication network. Baran had one design goal for this network—survivability. Specifically, survivability in the face of nuclear catastrophe.

Earlier this month, I wrote about how fundamentals matter. I was delighted by a recent talk by Andy Bell from Hey Presents called “Be the browser’s mentor, not its micromanager.” I absolutely love the approach that Andy advocates for: give the browser direction, and let it work out the details. His approach to writing CSS, which he named CUBE, is very close to what I do, with a bit more structure to it.  ( 3 min )

In the hands of Helen Burgess, goofy grins, bloated bellies, and eyes wide with surprise turn endangered or overlooked animals into endearing creatures with playfully exaggerated emotions. The British ceramicist, who works as nosey mungo (previously), sculpts quirky renditions of wildlife and other critters—she prefers to focus on conservation issues and species struggling to survive— crafting kooky pufferfish covered in spikes and chicks with tiny beaks poking out from their downy, yellow bodies. More  ( 5 min )

URL Shorteners are tools we use to make links shorter than they actually are. With a URL Shortener, you can transform a long link (maybe for a registration form or article) into a shorter version. Behind the scenes, the long … Why I Chose Angular to Build a URL Shortener originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 10 min )

In this article, Luis Ouriach helps to develop your own guiding principles to become a better designer so that you can walk into the design critique meetings with more confidence and really deliver the best representation of your ideas.  ( 17 min )

Hey, This week is full of awesome CSS stuff that people have dreamt of only some years ago. And we have other articles that I’ve been long waiting for: Great custom maps, a modern end-to-end testing framework and a fast Electron alternative. But first of all, the topic of the week: People always talk about quality time for work, family, fitness, self-care, or sports… but what about having leisure time that allows you to think about nothing and let your mind pause for a bit? UI/UX When we talk about User Experience design we often think about design, a clean UI or similar things. But a lot of the experience has to do with the words and texts chosen for the project and here’s a guide that helps understanding the importance of UX Writing. Tooling Share code snippets in a very nice way with Ch…  ( 2 min )

On view at Rise Art is a new body of work from South African artist Nelson Makamo, who continues his charismatic portraits rendered in lively, gestural lines of charcoal. Whether on paper or canvas, the mixed-media pieces depict children and teens, and the artist’s quick, sometimes chaotic markings echo the unfiltered immediacy of the sitters’ cheerful and contemplative emotions—prior to each portrait, he spends time learning about his subjects’ lives, their joys, and worries, a practice he finds essential for capturing such candid, honest expressions. More  ( 5 min )

In 2007, Madrid-based artist and illustrator Pep Carrió’s expansive diary project began as a challenge with a simple premise: to draw something every day. No matter what materials were at hand and without any predetermined theme or subject matter, he took a game-like approach to see if he could accomplish filling an entire Moleskine datebook throughout the year. The numerous editions that have followed feature a dazzling array of scenes fashioned from marker, pencil, tempera, pen, ink, collage, and found materials. More  ( 5 min )

Cragged, gaunt topographies bisect the deceptive landscapes by Kate Kirkwood, a British photographer whose work is deeply rooted in the countryside of the Lake District where she’s lived for the last 23 years. There, underneath the clear, blue skies or amid the haze of dense fog, Kirkwood frames what appears to be vast, barren terrains that with further examination, are revealed to be fragmented shots of the animals wandering the fields rather than the vistas themselves. More  ( 6 min )

Over the last few weeks, we’ve looked at different patterns for creating JavaScript libraries: the Revealing Module Pattern, the Constructor Pattern, and the JavaScript Class pattern. One of the students in the current session of my Vanilla JS Structure & Scale workshop asked me for examples of actual problems that the Constructor Pattern (and by extension, the Class Pattern) solve. When and why would you choose that approach over a utility library with a Revealing Module Pattern, or just standalone functions?  ( 5 min )

It’s not everyday that HTML headings are the topic de jour, but my folder of saved links is accumulating articles about the recently merged removal of the document outline algorithm in the WHATWG Living Standard. First off, you should know … Roundup of Recent Document Outline Chatter originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 4 min )

Now that some time has passed since the team returned from SmashingConf San Francisco, we’ve had time to think about the event and wrap up some of the things we all learned.  ( 11 min )

The case for using Sass in 2022 * Locofy.ai * Upgraderoo * Merge * GitHub City The post Collective #721 appeared first on Codrops.  ( 6 min )

Jenny Jiang is the founder of Dreamscapes Studio, a 3D design agency focusing on creating beautiful visuals, motion graphics and artful renders. Her artwork explores aspects of surrealism, joy and modern architecture taking form of idealistic dreamscapes.  ( 4 min )

Chrome DevTools is adding support for top layer elements, making it easier for developers to debug their code that makes use of top layer elements. Note: This is a preview feature available in Chrome Canary from version 105. This article describes what top layer elements are, how DevTools help to visualize the top layer content to understand and debug DOM structure that contains top layer elements, and how DevTools top layer support is implemented. # What are the top layer and top layer elements? What exactly happens internally when you open a as a modal? 🤔 It is put into a top layer. Top layer content renders on top of all other content. For example, a modal dialog needs to appear on top of all other DOM content, so the browser automatically renders this element in a 'top layer'…  ( 9 min )

In the same vein as Phaidon’s formidable Great Women Artists and African Artists, a forthcoming book from the publisher similarly widens the art historical canon while recognizing some of the most influential and impactful painters working in the medium today. The massive compilation, titled Great Women Painters, highlights more than 300 artists across 500 years and a vast array of movements and aesthetics. More  ( 6 min )

The swish of a shuttle moving from left to right as it carries threads through the warp might be described as a “xui” sound. A Taiwanese onomatopoeia, the auditory word is also the title of Cai Wei Qun’s elaborately constructed book on the craft, which opens to reveal a trove of history, techniques and tricks, and an entire loom tucked between its covers. The clever design is fully functional and able to produce tiny tapestries based on the patterns and practices described, making the book an immersive and accessible manual. More  ( 5 min )

omozoc (previously) gives new meaning to handcrafted in one of his latest stop-motion tutorials. With a simple touch of his fingertip or nail zipping along the edge of a piece of wood, the animator appears to cut, bevel, and construct a tissue box without any outside tools or fasteners. Comprised of 791 individual photos, the seamless video took 22 days to complete and is part of omozoc’s growing archive of woodworking lessons, which you can find more of (make sure you turn your volume up to hear the incredibly satisfying audio) on YouTube. More  ( 5 min )

Safari 15.6 is the seventh major release of Safari since last fall’s Safari 15.0.  ( 3 min )

Michelle Barker with my favorite sorta blog post: short, practical, and leaves you with a valuable nugget for your time. Here, she gets into logical property shorthands in CSS, particularly those that set lengths just on a single axis, … Logical Properties for Useful Shorthands originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 3 min )

Device Emulation in developer tools is great, but it doesn’t deliver to all users of it and could be much better. Please help us improve it. When developer tools of browsers came out with Device Emulation and reponsive design tooling , everything changed. As a developer, you didn’t need to resize the browser window any […]  ( 5 min )

Yesterday, we learned about how to create libraries with the vanilla JS Class pattern. Today, I wanted to share my favorite JavaScript class features: private class properties. Let’s dig in! (Today’s post is an except from my updated course and ebook on Writing JS Libraries.) What is a private class feature? In our constructor pattern library, the validate() function was a private function. It wasn’t attached to the Constructor or to the Constructor.  ( 4 min )

Optimizing the size of images can have a bigger impact on performance than all other areas combined. In this article, Louis Lazaris covers different tools available for reducing the size of images.  ( 14 min )

“Extremely resilient yet fragile” is how artist Karolina Romanowska describes the moody, anthropomorphic characters that comprise her series of sculptural works. Romanowska hand-builds a vast array of fantastical personas from clay, using a combination of slabs, coils, and molds to form flat tongues, individual teardrops, and horns with pointed tips. The contradictions inherent within the figures’ expressions are the conceptual counterpart to the ceramic material, she says, referring to both its ability to withstand fire and its propensity to fracture or burst upon impact. More  ( 5 min )

Marked with visible brushstrokes and drips of paints, the portraits of  Tim Okamura (previously) blend realistic portrayals of his subjects with the fervent, unrestrained qualities of street art. The Japanese-Canadian artist, who recently moved his studio from Brooklyn to Queens, centers his practice around storytelling and honing in on the distinctive energies of those he paints. Much of Okamura’s portraiture develops in series, whether as the Healthcare Heroes collection devoted to the nurses and doctors working tirelessly throughout the pandemic or the commanding figures of the ongoing Women Warriors—many of these works will be on view as a solo exhibition in September of 2023 at Pittsburgh’s August Wilson African American Cultural Center. More  ( 5 min )

During what he thought would be a routine storm-chasing expedition in Virginia last week, photographer Jason Rinehart visited an overlook within the Blue Ridge Mountains. He was hoping to capture the ominous shelf cloud leading that night’s torrent but instead found himself witnessing an unusually lucky sight: as the rain broke during twilight, a double rainbow emerged over the horizon, an already stunning phenomenon made more serendipitous when it was punctured by a bright lightning bolt in the distance. More  ( 5 min )

The other day, we looked at the JavaScript Constructor Pattern, and how you can use it to create JS libraries. Today, I wanted to look at the JavaScript Class Pattern: what it is, how it’s different, and how to use it. This article is excerpt from my completely updated Writing JS Libraries course and ebook. Let’s dig in! (If you didn’t read the constructor pattern article, you should do that first.  ( 4 min )

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Open source software plays an integral part of how developers build for the web. Over the last few years, the Chrome Web Frameworks and Tools Performance fund has tried to help support this effort through the sponsorship of popular JavaScript frameworks and developer tools. This is in addition to our engineering collaborations on projects like React, Next.js and Angular through Project Aurora. Today we are happy to share that we will be distributing another $500K through Open Collective to projects focused on improving the performance, user-experience and developer-experience building for the web over the next year. These projects include: Nuxt.js - the opinionated web framework for building Vue.js apps Vue.js & Vite - the progressive JS framework and modern front-end tooling stack Astro -…  ( 3 min )

In this brief timelapse, a single acorn germinates from seed to sapling over a period of 196 days, transferred carefully from vessel to vessel as it sprouts. The simple yet wondrous clip is just one of many plant growing timelapse videos produced by Youtube channel Boxlapse (also on Instagram) where you’ll find a new clip almost every weekday. The clips include all manner of plants and fungi captured in interesting ways, including the growth of a mango tree over a yearlong period or the first 113 dragon fruit cactus, seen below. More  ( 5 min )

Similar to the decorative art of marquetry, intarsia involves compressing cut pieces of wood into a tight, solid structure. Because of the size of the components, the latter technique produces more three-dimensional forms that tend to be fastened with dabs of glue. British artist T.A.G. Smith employs this assemblage method when sculpting his small bird busts, portraits, and single feathers encased in boxes. Each piece begins with a digital rendering, followed by Smith carving shapes from myriad types of wood, allowing the color and grain of the materials to determine its placement in the final form. More  ( 5 min )

More than form or color, texture is what preoccupies Carlos Cabo as he sculpts. The Spanish artist, who lives and works in Salinas, is drawn to the tactile qualities of clay and the possibilities inherent in its malleability. Texture “is what gives (a work) personality, what individualizes it, and essentially differentiates it from other similar pieces,” he says. “I would dare to say that the texture is more than the skin of the piece. More  ( 5 min )

So there’s this idea from evolutionary ecology called r/K selection theory, and it is provoking me into some open-ended speculation about the future of software production. The basic gist is that many species seem to converge toward one of two extreme survival strategies:

Today, I wanted to quick show you how to generate a UUID (University Unique Identifier) using the vanilla JS crypto.randomUUID() method. There’s really not much to show. You run it, and it generates a unique ID. // returns something like this: // "f116fb21-79f2-4ec0-8a81-85b5837ea0f3" let id = crypto.randomUUID(); Because it’s a cryptographically secure identifier, it requires an SSL certificate to run. However, exceptions are made for localhost:// and file:// for testing.  ( 3 min )

In this article, we will push the boundaries of static rendering and learn how to apply it to personalized content. “Segmented Rendering” is a new pattern and it will change the jamstack game forever.  ( 16 min )

One look at Michael Velliquette’s paper sculptures, and you may find yourself lost in the majesty of the construction—feeling the intricate gears, fanning geometric arches, and echoing layers churning inside of you. A circle is more than it appears in his works as it spirals into a chamber of other shapes. Each interpretation expands its form from the structural foundation to the tip of an accentual cut. As Velliquette (previously) describes: “I start out cutting small concentric shapes and layering them. More  ( 7 min )

Say you have a line in SVG: <svg<line x1="0" y1="30" x2="500" y2="30" stroke-color="#f8a100" /</svg You can use the stroke-dasharray property in CSS to make dashes: line { stroke-dasharray: 5; } That 5 value is a relative unit based … How stroke-dasharray Patterns Work originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 3 min )

Throughout Russia’s war, photographer Oleg Oprisco (previously) has remained in his native Ukraine creating works that reflect the unjust aggression and its devastating effects. Oprisco is known for his conceptual shots that involve elaborately constructed props and scenes that capture his distinct sense of surreality. Relying on neutrals and subdued tones rather than a bold color palette, the mysterious, dreamlike images tend to center on a single figure within a quiet and unoccupied landscape. More  ( 5 min )

Today, I wanted to share a tiny new library I released for creating state-based UI with mostly vanilla JS. Let’s dig in! What’s state-based UI? State-based UI is an approach to building dynamic websites. With state-based UI, you have a data object, and you specify how the UI should look based on different conditions in your data. let data = { wizards: ['Gandalf', 'Radagast', 'Merlin'] }; /** * Create an HTML string from the data * @param {Object} props The data object * @return {String} The HTML string */ function template (props) { // If there are no wizards, show a message if (!  ( 5 min )

In this article, Scott Himmer will go over some areas where you might find the design and engineering conflicts manifesting, what some of the contributing factors are, and strategies to work through the challenges.  ( 18 min )

Check the creative story of identity and web design process for out-of-the-box event service PointZero25, combining business and entertainment, logic and magic.  ( 10 min )

On seeing tools for thought through a historical and anthropological lens  ( 19 min )

A new role at an AI research lab working on tools for open-ended reasoning  ( 9 min )

When debugging or analysing JavaScript, you often see people trying to find out how often a certain function is called. The common way to do that is to use a global counter variable to increment and log in the function. var i = 0; function test(){ // other functionality i++; console.log(i); // other functionality } […]  ( 2 min )

This week, the first images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope amazed and daunted us with their inordinately deep looks at the cosmos, particularly the shot of the glimmering star-forming region known as the “Cosmic Cliffs” of the Carina Nebula. The team over at the Catskills-based studio Nervous System translated this galactic masterpiece into a new, similarly expansive infinity puzzle intended to be tiled continuously, with no predetermined shape, start, or end. More  ( 5 min )

From a black-and-white portrait of a reclined James Baldwin to a candid shot of a father and daughter on a Harlem park bench, a new archive from Getty grants open access to thousands of images devoted to Black history and culture. The massive collection—which was developed with historians and educators Dr. Deborah Willis, Jina DuVernay, Dr. Tukufu Zuberi, Dr. Mark Sealy MBE,  and Renée Mussai—comprises 30,000 photographs taken in the U.S. and U.K. that are available for free non-commercial, educational use. More  ( 6 min )

Prior to the ubiquity of the glass mirrors we use today, people often peered into polished bronze for a low-fi glimpse of their reflection. These objects often featured cast three-dimensional symbols or renderings on the side opposite the convex reflective surface, but another particularly artful subset also contained an added dimension of mystery. While plumbing the archives at the Cincinnati Art Museum, curator Hou-mei Sung uncovered what appeared to be an ordinary patinaed mirror printed with the name of Amitābha Buddha. More  ( 5 min )

NOTE: Safari Technology Preview release 149 was removed to address an issue.  ( 2 min )

A few days ago I asked Twitter a seemingly simple question (I meant aria-pressed, not aria-selected but Twitter doesn’t allow edits…): For background, I was implementing a web component for an app I’m working on at work and I was getting into some pretty weird rabbit holes with my approach of generating radios and labels. […]  ( 4 min )

This week, my buddy Kieran Barker taught me that the Element.classList.toggle() method accepts a second argument that you can use to more efficiently write if...else class manipulation. Today, I want to quickly review how that works. Let’s dig in! The classList.toggle() method The classList.toggle() method toggles a class on an element. If the class already exists, the method removes it. If not, it adds it. Tuna let sandwich = document.  ( 3 min )

I think it’s super timely that Jim Nielson wrote about his office space the other day. My family recently re-rooted in Colorado and I was up late last night setting up my desk and everything around it. So late, in … Office Spaces originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 6 min )

CSS-only shaders * Siter.io * Statements Vs. Expressions * Building your website using Jigsaw The post Collective #720 appeared first on Codrops.  ( 7 min )

Using only Docker to build and run applications and commands removes the need for previous knowledge in some tool or programming language. Also, it avoids the necessity to install new modules and dependencies directly to the system, which makes development machine-independent.  ( 12 min )

In love with letters since he designed a typeface as his thesis. Focusing on conceptual and expressive display fonts with his foundry »La Bolde Vita« since 2019.  ( 4 min )

User preference media features give you the ability to style web experiences that align with the user's own specific preferences and needs. In other words, preference media features allow you to adapt your user experiences to your user's expectations. You can enhance the user experience of your website by taking the following three steps: Discover the possibilities. Learn all the user preference media features. Style your web experiences. Implement, for example, color, layout, and element size changes based on the preferences. Test the UI. In DevTools, emulate the preferences and test how your website behaves. DevTools supports a variety of emulation options. To help you avoid searching for and adjusting system and browser settings, all the emulation options reside in one place—under the Rendering tab in DevTools. The emulation options of the user's preferences include but are not limited to: prefers-color scheme—light or dark color scheme prefers-contrast—lower or higher contrast prefers-reduced-motion—minimize motion or not prefers-reduced-data—consume less traffic or not For a comprehensive list of all emulation options, see Emulate CSS media features. To discover more effects you can apply using the Rendering tab, see the Rendering tab overview. Additionally, with DevTools, your testing capabilities aren't limited to the single device you're working on. You can Simulate mobile devices with Device Mode.  ( 3 min )

Artist Jonathan Callan subverts the organization of a neatly arranged bookcase through sculptural works and site-specific installations that obscure and contort volumes into coiled masses. Whether packed tightly into an architectural cavern or hung on a wall, Callan’s pieces focus on how materiality intersects with language and the relationship between text and texture. Raised in the robust literary culture of the U.K., the artist has always found meaning and value in books, his preferred tool for learning and considering life’s more abstract, philosophical questions. More  ( 6 min )

Referencing Marco Ferreri’s mordant 1970s satire by the same name, La Grande Bouffe, or The Big Feast, saturates the simple foods found in pantries and fridges with unexpected grandeur. The solo exhibition on view at Unit London showcases vivid paintings by Belgian artist Kristof Santy that transform humble fare like a cheddar wedge or slice of watermelon into bright, gastronomic celebrations. Often positioned against textured tile backdrops or striped wallpaper, the oil-based works tend to be either devoid of human life or portray figures in rigid stasis: a butcher stiffly lifts a broom in the shop doorway, a finger peels back a tin of fish with precision, and pans filled with sausages and other meats fry on a stovetop unsupervised. More  ( 5 min )

Unlike the affectionate canine companions that grace many of Elke Vogelsang’s portraits, the cats she finds in front of her camera exhibit more irritable, even stereotypical emotions. She captures her feline subjects with a range of reactions, whether snarling and baring their teeth or showing off their more playful sides with leaps into the air or a quick flick of their tongues. A professional pet portraitist, Vogelsang mostly visits her subjects at their homes rather than bringing them to her Hildesheim studio. More  ( 5 min )

I recently spoke at CSS Day in Amsterdam. It was only my second f2f talk after the pandemic. It went down really well, both in person, and recently that the video was released: Here is a sample of tweets about it that made me particularly warm and fuzzy inside: There’s a lot more where these […]  ( 5 min )

Today, I wanted to quickly share the Array.prototype.at() method: how it works, and when you might use it. Let’s dig in! Getting an item from an array by its index Let’s imagine you have an array of wizards, like this. let wizards = [ 'Merlin', 'Gandalf', 'Ursula', 'Radagast', 'Morgana' ]; Using bracket notation, you can get an item by its index (remember, array indexes start at 0). // returns "Ursula" let ursula = wizards[2]; // returns "Morgana" let morgana = wizards[4]; Here’s a demo.  ( 3 min )

Hooks are reusable functions. They allow you to use state and other features (e.g. lifecycle methods and so on) without writing a class. Hook functions let us “hook into” the React state lifecycle using functional components, allowing us to manipulate … React Hooks: The Deep Cuts originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 9 min )

A simple layout transition where a small grid animates to a larger view, using the Flip plugin from GreenSock. The post Tiny Grid Layout Animation appeared first on Codrops.  ( 5 min )

Interested in helping improve DevTools? Sign up to participate in Google User Research here. # Restart frame during debugging The Restart frame feature is back! You can re-run the preceding code when paused somewhere in a function. Previously, this feature was deprecated and removed in Chrome 92 due to stability issues. In this example, the debugger initially paused at the breakpoint (line 343) near the end of the toggleColorScheme function. To restart the debugging from the beginning of the toggleColorScheme function, expand the Call stack section in the Debugger pane, right click on toggleColorScheme and select Restart frame. Chromium issue: 1303521 # Slow replay options in the Recorder panel You can now replay user flows at a slower speed — slow, very slow, and extremely slow. These opt…  ( 13 min )

The Big Ten's recent expansion is being blamed on Fox and ESPN, but it is actually an example of content extracting maximum value through consolidation  ( 14 min )

Our dear friend Robin has a new essay called In Praise of Shadows. Now, before you hop over there looking for nuggets on CSS box shadows, text shadows, and shadow filters… this is not that. It’s an essay … In Praise of Shadows originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 4 min )

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope unveiled its first-ever collection of high-resolution color images capturing an exceptional amount of detail about the universe. The instrument reaches deeper into the cosmos than any before. Launched in December, Webb is the world’s largest and most powerful observer with the ability to view cosmic bodies like the atmospheres of exoplanets, or those outside our solar system, and some of the first galaxies to emerge following the Big Bang 13.5 billion years ago. More  ( 6 min )

In Greek mythology, the sacred phoenix, with its characteristically striking plumage in flaming yellow, orange, and red, is known for its ability to resurrect. When the bird’s long life is nearing an end, flames engulf its body, and the being is reborn as a chick in the ashes of its predecessor, giving it the distinction of resilience, regeneration, and immortality. As Yulia Brodskaya began to apply the curled and crimped tendrils of paper to her latest work, she tells Colossal that the firebird portrait “started as a visual representation of a powerful feeling rising from the deep,” adding that “it felt like this portrait has been ‘channelled’ through me.” Brodskaya captures the subtleties of individual expression and character in her elaborate portraits (previously) and depictions of flora and fauna. More  ( 5 min )

In this episode, we ask what qualities are required to introduce change in large organizations, how to convince management to do the right thing, and how to ship a billion-dollar idea. Vitaly talks to expert Paul Boag to find out.  ( 33 min )

In this article, Zara Cooper will examine some of the features of the Kendo UI for Angular Data Grid in comparison to those offered by the Angular Material Table.  ( 15 min )

Today, I wanted to share a simple way to store data and make it reactive with vanilla JS and Proxies. Let’s dig in! Why I’m thinking about this I’ve started working on a new workshop: Building Web Apps. One of the big decisions I’m making is whether to use traditional state-based UI (in the style of React and Vue) or native web components. One feature that’s built into even the smallest of state-based UI libraries is reactive data.  ( 6 min )

Morgane Vantorre is a freelance type designer and graphic designer based in Paris. Passionate about the materiality of our written language and what its forms convey beyond its meaning, her work is based on a strong interest in the typographic sign in its entirety.  ( 4 min )

A look at some interesting use-cases for CSS flexbox and grid in Figma app.  ( 5 min )

A look at some interesting use-cases for CSS flexbox and grid in Figma app.  ( 5 min )

Most online stores customize their look and feel, but @Shopify goes many steps further by decoupling the front and back ends. Leverage their approach to best serve your customers:  ( 6 min )

In 12 months, @aarondfrancis changed his life by bypassing fear and embracing risk. Now, he’s working his dream job @tuple. Get his full story on The ReadME Project:  ( 8 min )

Often mistaken as a concept you should reserve for later in your career, functional programming can actually be an important and accessible part of your toolkit from day one. @cassidoo explains:  ( 8 min )

Want to protect your software, engineering teams, and end users against nefarious attacks? @projectsigstore shares how to create a more secure software supply chain:  ( 7 min )

With origins that stretch back to the late 1950s, functional programming might seem dated—but it can be a boon for growing teams working with large codebases. Read more from @klintron:  ( 9 min )

As a kid, @JLLeitschuh discovered robotics and programming were his happy place. After college, he stumbled into open source security research. Hear him share the whole story, now on The ReadME Pro...  ( 11 min )

Welcome to the second edition of Chrome Dev Insider where we share updates on what's new and exciting in the community and here at Chrome. This is a new episode of insider stories on how we approach our work, and a quick glance at some of the most important updates that you should pay attention to. I'm Rachel Andrew, the Content Lead for web.dev and developer.chrome.com, as part of the Chrome Developer Relations team. I've been working on the web for over twenty years, with a focus on open web standards and CSS, and am a member of the CSS Working Group. Two months ago, we wrapped up Google I/O where we shared some of the most important updates about how we're supporting developers in making the web faster and more powerful while keeping user information safe and private. One of the things …  ( 10 min )

Is acceptably non-dystopian digital identity even possible?

Established more than 1,200 years ago in 809, the historic Hitokotonushi Shrine just outside of Tokyo becomes a secondary sanctuary for local pollinators each summer. The on-site water basins, which are designed to hydrate humans, undergo a miniature makeover complete with moss, tiny architecture, and climbing surfaces so that the spaces are hospitable to the region’s bee population, offering a clean source used for drinking, feeding their offspring, diluting honey, and helping to stabilize the hive’s temperature. More  ( 5 min )

Dating back to the Vikings, ryijy is a distinctly Finnish textile tradition that produces thick, high-pile tapestries and rugs. The heavily patterned works, which have shifted from functional to decorative, are made by hand-knotting wool and layering the yarn into lush, textured motifs. Drawing on her background in textile design, Finnish artist Marianne Huotari translates this technique into ceramics, creating densely delicate reliefs that evoke the depth and dimension of fiber. Huotari begins every work with a color palette and surface, whether in the form of a wall-based piece or a freestanding sculpture. More  ( 6 min )

In his ongoing Jurassic Nature series, Japanese artist Raku Inoue layers sprigs of kiwi vines, white spruce, and boxelder maple into miniature sculptural dinosaurs. The ribbed, veiny textures of the leaves mimic the reptilian skin of some of the most recognizable characters from the 1993 classic. Minimal in form and lush in construction, the creatures include a dandelion-headed brontosaurus, a stegosaurus with spiky raspberry leaves defining its back, and a velociraptor laced with forget-me-nots. More  ( 5 min )

A few weeks ago, Laurie Voss tweeted a screenshot from an upcoming talk of his that said… There’s no such thing as fundamentals. If you take one thing away from this talk it should be that there’s no such thing as fundamentals. That’s gatekeeping nonsense. This resulted in a lengthy, multi-week conversation between Laurie and I. Today, I wanted to unpack why I think Laurie’s statement is both wrong and harmful for the web.  ( 6 min )

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, PHP, C++, Dart — there are so many programming languages out there and you may even be totally fluent in several of them! But as we aim to write more and better code, the way we … Technical Writing for Developers originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 18 min )

Let’s talk about Remix, the framework to create JavaScript projects using server-side rendering. Let’s go through its main features and concepts and see the similarities and differences with Next.js.  ( 13 min )

Are we entering a new era in web design? Maximalism might be the new trend that can help you create a stunning, eye-catchy, and appealing website. The post The Comeback of Maximalism and What it Could Mean for Web Design appeared first on Codrops.  ( 8 min )

This is an expanded version of a microblog entry: . It contains everything in that entry and more. I am open to feedback, especially from anybody with a more thorough background in the subject; . Stylometric fingerprinting resistancehere’s my contact information To paint with a broad brush, we can divide most stylometric fingerprinting into machine- and human-driven techniques. Common advice is to use offline machine translation to translate works to and from another language. and are two options that come to mind.Argos TranslateMarian shows that machine translation alone isn’t nearly as strong a method as manual approaches: obfuscation (hiding your writing style) or imitation (mimicking another author). These approaches have excellent success rates, even among amateur writers. The afor…  ( 5 min )

Lines and basic shapes are the basis of Jochen Gerner’s distinct, almost paradoxical style that’s sometimes referred to as “abundant minimalism.” The French artist, who lives and works between Lorraine and Burgundy, draws birds and dogs that are sparse in form and yet rich in color and texture: checkered patterns overlaid with a chaotic array of markings create a shaggy fur coat, while variegated patches of feathers distinguish the tail from wing or breast. More  ( 5 min )

Precision is at the core of Laura Fischer’s practice. Using cotton and linen threads in neutral tones, the Bellingham, Washington-based artist sheaths smooth stones in impeccably exacting grids. She forms the tiny squares and rectangles with a series of knots, mimicking the loom weaving process but working directly on the natural material. Paired together, the sculptures are finished with a twisting rope wrapped around the circumferences and suspended in staggered positions. A few of Fischer’s pieces are available on her site. More  ( 5 min )

Los Angeles-based artist Sasha Vinogradova merges her fascination with nature and ornate design in a series of jewel-coated specimens. Sculptural in form to evoke a brooch or other piece of wearable art, the digitally illustrated insects encase gems and vibrant, iridescent body parts within a metallic structure. Symmetrical motifs adorn the wings and shells, adding an extra layer of ornamentation to the otherwise natural subject matter. With a background in motion design and key art, Vinogradova works with various clients on illustrations and art direction. More  ( 5 min )

This week, we’ve been looking at ways to build vanilla JS libraries based on my newly updated course on the topic. Yesterday, we looked at the revealing module pattern. Today, we’re going to learn about the constructor pattern. Let’s dig in! What is the constructor pattern? The constructor pattern is useful when you want to define specific information and use it repeatedly with your library methods. This pattern is used in libraries like jQuery, where you get some nodes from the DOM, and then can run various methods to manipulate them.  ( 6 min )

As a designer, you may be tasked with figuring out how your company should approach the metaverse or thinking about designing for the metaverse. In this article, Lyndon Cerejo will discuss a few steps he recommends before diving headfirst into any design for the metaverse.  ( 16 min )

Welcome to this edition of "Progress in the Privacy Sandbox", covering May and June 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 and news across the Privacy Sandbox. # Privacy Sandbox Relevance and Measurement origin trial We're continuing to run the combined origin trial for Attribution Reporting, FLEDGE, and Topics, along with expanding it to include Fenced frames and Shared Storage. Fenced frames provide a restricted container for displaying content which FLEDGE makes use of to display ads. Shared Storage complements fenced frames by allowing access to a carefully gated form of unpartitioned storage where the stored data may be used as part of the ad …  ( 8 min )

Signed Exchanges (SXG) is a delivery mechanism that can help speed up your site and improve Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) by enabling privacy-preserving cross-origin prefetch. At I/O 2022, the SXG working group at Google previewed plans to add new SXG features and support site navigations on additional surfaces. Today, we are announcing the first set of these features, with more to come over the next few months: Support for desktop site navigations Google Search support for SXG from Top Stories and News Support for server side personalization Read on to learn more about these features and how you can leverage them to improve the user experience on your site. # Support for desktop navigations With this release, Signed Exchanges will now be available for desktop cross-origin navigations on …  ( 5 min )

Notes on how to use the position property in CSS to make scrollytelling stories  ( 8 min )

Portland, Oregon-based artist Lana Crooks (previously) juxtaposes the softness of wool and silk with the solid, unyielding surfaces of bones. She stitches hand-dyed textiles into anatomical sculptures adorned with colorful florals or feathers that are both elegant and eerie. Often encased in glass domes, Crooks’s recent skeletal works include a hand wrapped in a loose bouquet, an ouroboros entwined with a blossoming vine, and a human ribcage suspended in an ornately carved wooden box. More  ( 5 min )

Artist Warren King (previously) finds much of his inspiration by wandering through Chinatown in New York City, where he encounters “street musicians, chess players in Columbus Park, vegetable sellers, knockoff handbag vendors on Canal Street, lion dancers during Chinese New Year celebrations,” he tells Colossal. “I’ve been fascinated during my weekly grocery shopping trips by the vibrant, diverse community there, which is so different from the relatively homogenous suburbs where I grew up.” These passersby become the initial inspiration for the artist’s figurative cardboard sculptures, which consider his Chinese heritage, his parent’s immigration, and what it means to hold a diasporic identity. More  ( 6 min )

Sprouting flowers and botanical sprigs, the subjects of Hiroki Takeda’s watercolor works exude the boundless joy and energy we tend to associate with canine companionship. The vividly rendered pieces are part of the Japanese artist’s whimsical body of work that defines the contours of cats, birds, and inanimate objects with delicate plants and other natural elements. Prints and originals of Takeda’s blooming creatures are available from TRiCERA Art, and you can stay up to date with his latest pieces on Instagram. More  ( 5 min )

Yesterday, we looked at what a JavaScript library is. Today, we’re going to look at a common JS library pattern: the revealing module pattern. Let’s dig in! (Today’s article is an excerpt from my newly updated Writing JS Libraries course/guide.) A collection of helper functions To make this guide a bit more tangible, we’re going to build a few different libraries around a set of helper functions that perform basic math.  ( 5 min )

I explore generative methods for creating playful, colourful and geometric 3D designs and animations.  ( 3 min )

Bun * Building tabs in Web Components * Body Margin 8px * Preline The post Collective #719 appeared first on Codrops.  ( 6 min )

In this article, we will explore how an accessibility-first approach can lead you down the path of creating a better visual design for charts. Throughout the article, you’ll learn to use the Web Content Accessibility Standards and how this approach leadd to an unexpected yet better outcome for everyone.  ( 16 min )

In one of his most ambitious bodies of work to date, artist Collin van der Sluijs (previously) references two forces being incidentally forced together. “These strange times have caused a collision between me as a person and my work,” he shares, “I want to be free and not a puppet on strings directed by anybody.” This sentiment pervades the Dutch artist’s latest collection opening this week at both Vertical Gallery and Vertical Project Space in Chicago. More  ( 5 min )

Whether in the form of nebulae or starry galactic expanses, natural light continues to dominate Royal Museums Greenwich’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition (previously). The 14th annual contest garnered more than 3,000 submissions from 67 countries, and a shortlist of finalists contains stunning shots of a September harvest moon illuminating Glastonbury Tor, the brilliant streaks trailing Comet Leonard, and the vibrant Aurora Borealis casting an ominous glow above a battered ship in Westfjords. More  ( 5 min )

Boxing gloves typically evoke associations with masculinity, competition, and aggression, but Zoë Buckman punches back with her series of mixed-media sculptures and embroidered textile pieces. Sometimes draped like bunches of dried flowers and other times balanced delicately on top of one another, they “question whether they are holding each other up or tearing each other down,” says a statement. Taking a feminist and activist approach to challenging preconceptions about gender, trauma, and safety, she became interested in the symbolic dualities of the gloves, both in the way they are made and used. More  ( 6 min )

Today we are looking under the hood of a page transition based on Vitalii Burhonskyi's Dribbble shot. The post How to Create a Cover Page Transition appeared first on Codrops.  ( 9 min )

A few weeks ago, I rewrote and rerecorded my entire course and book on writing JavaScript libraries. I rewrote the whole thing to better explain its core concepts, added an entire section on JavaScript classes, replaced all of the examples with newer, easier-to-understand ones. This week, I wanted to share some of the chapters from the guide. Let’s dig in! So, what’s a JS library? A JavaScript library is code that abstracts commonly used or complicated tasks into a simpler, easier-to-use format.  ( 4 min )

In this [series of articles](/category/design-patterns/), we highlight design patterns and techniques to design better interfaces. You can find more examples in [“Smart Interface Design Patterns”](https://smart-interface-design-patterns.com/), a 7h-video course with 100s of hand-picked examples, curated by Vitaly.  ( 30 min )

Disposable coffee cups are undeniably damaging to the planet and its inhabitants, and even as some regions ban them entirely, we’ll continue to feel the effects of our consumption for generations. The estimated 250 billion vessels we collectively use each year often wind up in landfills and oceans contributing to pollution, although they aren’t the only harmful component of our morning habits: The grounds also produce gasses and damage soils when discarded in large quantities, two problems the designers behind the innovative Kreis Cup want to remedy. More  ( 5 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 13th Epson International Pano Awards More  ( 9 min )

Armed with his Leica and an extraordinary amount of patience, Matt Stuart ventures through the streets of cities worldwide to capture the unexpected and coincidental moments of everyday life. His practice revolves around finding humor, play, and serendipity in the mundane, a skill he’s cultivated throughout his 25-year career and recounts in the recently released volume Think Like a Street Photographer. Published by Laurence King, the book pairs 100 of Stuart’s images with detailed descriptions of his process. More  ( 5 min )

When you write markdown files, headings automatically also get an ID generated so they become in-page targets to link to. This is also used to create a table of contents in various publishing systems. Today I learned that VS Code also offers these generated IDs as an autocomplete when you type links. If you wrap […]  ( 1 min )

In this tutorial, Zara Cooper explains how to use Strapi’s Internationalization feature to create content in multiple languages. You’ll also learn how to create a Hugo site that consumes localized content from Strapi.  ( 24 min )

Tim Rodenbröker is a creative technologist and independent educator from Germany. He is the founder of trcc, an online learning platform with an associated global community for creative coding.  ( 4 min )

As Q2 FY22 wraps up, it’s a good time to reflect on all that’s happened. The Dude Ranch and a horse named Tank June kicked off with a rare family trip. My brother and his family came down from South Dakota and we all drove out to meet my mom and her husband in Bandera, TX for two days at Mayan Dude Ranch. Because we live all over the US, we haven’t done a trip with my mom and all the grandkids, and I’m glad we pulled it together. One of the main attractions of the dude ranch is the cowboy’ing. Lasso classes, hatchet throwing, and trail rides everyday. You can even ride a horse to a chuck wagon breakfast. This was my kids’ first horse ride experience and they both did great. Each horse had a fun name like “Whiskey” or “Pepsi” which kids love to talk about ad nauseum. Of course, being a cool…  ( 4 min )

In this article, John Scott Bowie shares the story of 40 years of attempts to advance corporate UX maturity that — after numerous initiatives with marginal results — culminated in a breakthrough project that accelerated a company’s UX maturity from “Emergent” to “User-Driven” in less than a year.  ( 19 min )

A coding session where you'll learn how to wrap a texture on a 3D face with Three.js. The post How to Map Texture to a 3D Face with Three.js appeared first on Codrops.  ( 5 min )

Once again, I've redesigned my website. Every now and then I get bored of the way it looks, or I notice a lot of people cloning it and feel…  ( 3 min )

Preface I am not a lawyer. This post is satirical commentary on: In the process, I intentionally misrepresent how the judicial system works: I portray the system the way people like to imagine it works. Please don’t make any important legal decisions based on anything I say. The only section you should take seriously is .“Context: the relevant technologies” The absurdity of Microsoft and OpenAI’s legal justification for GitHub Copilot. The oversimplifications people use to argue against GitHub Copilot (I don’t like it when people agree with me for the wrong reasons). The relationship between capital and legal outcomes. How civil cases seem like sporting events where people “win” or “lose”, rather than opportunities improve our understanding of law. Introduction GitHub is enabling copy…  ( 5 min )

Melanie Sumner has this super-specific collection of web-related nouns for describing a group or set of something. You know how there’s a school or fish or a herd of cows? Same sort of thing, but for funny web jargon. Things … Collective Nouns for the Web originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 3 min )

For this fourth and final article of our little series on single-element loaders, we are going to explore 3D patterns. When creating a 3D element, it’s hard to imagine that just one HTML element is enough to simulate something like all six faces of a cube. But  maybe we can get away … Single Element Loaders: Going 3D! originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 10 min )

Hungary-based artist Fanni Sandor (previously) expands her already minuscule menagerie with even tinier creatures. Using polymer clay, feathers, fur, and other materials, Sandor sculpts biologically accurate miniatures at a 1:12 scale, and many of her recent pieces include newborns and adolescents: a trio of joeys cling to their mother’s back, a chick slurps a worm, and a duckling grasps a monarch in its bill. Sandor shares more of the adorable animals and information on which are available on Instagram. More  ( 5 min )

Elaborately configured grids and systems capitalize on the immense power of neodymium magnets to visualize the invisible. A new collaborative video from Magnet Tricks and Magnetic Games demonstrates how shifting a single element can set an entire design in motion, prompting each component to shake and vibrate in response. A visually mesmerizing example of basic physics, the project is also a study of sound and its manipulable patterns, so make sure you turn your volume up. More  ( 5 min )

Japanese artist and designer Mariko Kusumoto (previously) shapes gossamer coral and sea creatures from soft fibers like polyester, nylon, and cotton. Embedded with tiny ripples or airy pockets, the standalone sculptures and wearables are translucent renditions of lifeforms, and their delicate compositions correspond with the fragility of the subject matter. The Boston-based artist tends to cluster the individual pieces into larger works, creating sprawling reefs and diverse ecosystems brimming with color and texture. More  ( 5 min )

I have a long history of writing about my disdain for SPAs. Browsers give you a ton of stuff for free, built right in, out-of-the-box. SPAs break all that, and force you to recreate it yourself with JavaScript. Last month, Nolan Lawson wrote an article about how the balance has shifted away from SPAs that I thoroughly enjoyed. In it, Nolan looks at some of the technology shifts that helped make MPAs (multi-page apps, or, you know, websites) cool again.  ( 3 min )

I’m currently putting things together for a new flat and I realised that there are a lot of similarities between assembling IKEA furniture and doing web development. You get a huge bag of seemingly random parts and you should sort them before you start Everything is standardised and uses building blocks The manual is meant […]  ( 2 min )

San Jose-based artist Sam Rodriguez might liken an abstract leaf sprouting from a young woman’s garment or a Pac-Man-esque rendering floating near a subject’s face to scenic elements. His portraits, which he’s been referring to as “cultural landscapes” for the past few years, are topographies of identity that involve replacing trees, rivers, and horizons with social markers. “It’s interesting to see the endless variants that each individual carries when we unpack who they are,” he shares with Colossal. More  ( 5 min )

One of the more accessible mediums, photography has long been an entry point for those relegated to the periphery of the art world, and a group exhibition on view now at the Denver Art Museum celebrates those who helped develop and define the genre as it grew throughout the 20th Century. Modern Women/Modern Vision features more than 100 shots by some of the era’s most influential photographers—the list includes Berenice Abbott, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus, Eva Besnyö, and Imogen Cunningham—showcasing their distinct aesthetics, politics, and styles. More  ( 6 min )

With long, elegant fingers and brawny limbs, the women that define Hanna Lee Joshi’s gouache and colored pencil works move through the unknown and indiscernible with strength. The Vancouver-based artist renders anonymous figures in motion, whether dancing together or gracefully gliding through water, on their search for greater autonomy and fulfillment unobscured by political, cultural, and social impositions. In comparison to her earlier series, Joshi’s most recent pieces rely more heavily on shades of blue and use more subtle gradients to contour a leg or elbow. More  ( 5 min )

Bunny Fonts bills itself as the “privacy-first web font platform designed to put privacy back into the internet.”According to its FAQ: With a zero-tracking and no-logging policy, Bunny Fonts helps you stay fully GDPR compliant and puts your user’s personal … Bunny Fonts originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 4 min )

Eric Eggert: There are a few legitimate use cases for this technique. For example, you might have a table with titles and descriptions. To preserve more space for the title, you constrain the description to one line on small … Text-overflow: ellipsis considered harmful originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 4 min )

This article is absolutely a bit more niche than what I usually write about, so sorry in advance for that. Python 2 was deprecated a while ago, but continued to be the default on macOS for a while. After upgrading my MacBook to Monterey, I discovered that Python 2 had been removed. I don’t code in Python, but it is my preferred way to run a web server on my Mac.  ( 3 min )

Color.js * Defensive CSS * svg-path-morph * PRQL * My Wonderful HTML Email Workflow The post Collective #718 appeared first on Codrops.  ( 6 min )

Let’s welcome the new month with some inspiring desktop wallpapers. Created by artists and designers from across the globe, they come in versions with and without a calendar for July 2022. Enjoy!  ( 14 min )

Flávio Bezerra is a Lead Experience Designer at BCG Digital Ventures, helping companies to build startups. Over the past 11 years, Flávio has been working with startups and product teams in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, London, and Berlin and has been able to gather different experiences building B2B products in areas such as IoT, health, and finance.  ( 8 min )

CSS container queries is the new CSS feature that web developers are excited about. It may trigger a revolution in web design—from page-based responsive design to container-based responsive design. Chrome DevTools is here to help you adopt new layout design patterns and stay on top of the latest trends. With the support of this CSS feature, you can now inspect and debug your container queries in DevTools. The video above gives you an overview of container queries, their syntax, and how to inspect them in DevTools. You can now discover container elements and their descendants with the corresponding badge that toggles a dotted-line overlay. Inspect @container rules applied to descendants when containers satisfy query conditions. To learn more about the support of container queries in DevTools, see Inspect and debug CSS container queries.  ( 2 min )

E = ( p 2 c 2 ) + ( m 0 c 2 ) 2 You see the project going down a bad path… You did some…  ( 2 min )

Safari Technology Preview Release 148 is now available for download for macOS Monterey 12.3 or later and macOS Ventura beta.  ( 4 min )

Take a closer look at the most popular types of interactive content in modern mobile and web interfaces and learn how they strengthen user engagement. Packed with UX design examples.  ( 13 min )

Evoking the textures and colors of his native Valencia, the sculptural furniture pieces by Spanish artist Nacho Carbonell are sensual interpretations of life in the Mediterranean. A bulbous, metal mesh canopy sprouts from a rugged pink seat, small wooden sticks comprise the sinuous patterns on a buffet, and a vibrant mosaic takes the form of a headphone-shaped lamp. Tactile and potentially functional, the objects reference the natural, sun-soaked environment of Carbonell’s childhood, in addition to art historical traditions like those of 15th Century painter Hieronymus Bosch and 20th Century Austrian sculptor Franz West. More  ( 6 min )

From the misty waters of Benagil, Portugal, to Iceland’s cragged Múlagljúfur Canyon, the shots that comprise Vadim Sherbakov’s body of work capture the breadth and beauty of landscapes around the world. The photographer (previously) uses a combination of drones and cameras equipped with wide lenses to frame the natural colors and textures of Earth’s topographies: wind-battered snow ripples across the magical Baikal Lake, a hazy fog cloaks the rocky ravines of Sigölduglijufur, and stars speckle the sky above the quaint Val di Funes. More  ( 5 min )

Firefox Translations is a website translation add-on that provides an automated translation of web content. In this article, we will discuss the technical challenges around the development of the translation engine and how we solved them to build a usable Firefox Translations add-on. The post Neural Machine Translation Engine for Firefox Translations add-on appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.  ( 9 min )

Keith Cirkel from GitHub wrote an article about his team builds the GitHub website. One of the most notable things in the article is that GitHub still uses a “No JS? No problem.” approach to web development (as in, progressive enhancement). With JavaScript disabled, you’re still able to log in, comment on issues and pull requests (although our rich markdown toolbar won’t work), browse source code (with syntax highlighting), search for repositories, and even star, watch, or fork them.  ( 3 min )

There is an abundance of both CSS and JavaScript libraries for animation libraries out there. So many, in fact, that choosing the right one for your project can seem impossible. That’s the situation I faced when I decided to build … How I Chose an Animation Library for My Solitaire Game originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 9 min )

Inspirational websites from the past couple of weeks that shine with a brilliant design. The post Inspirational Websites Roundup #39 appeared first on Codrops.  ( 5 min )

Related: Chris’ blog post for the release of Color.js This post has been long overdue: Chris and I started working on Color.js in 2020, over 2 years ago! It was shortly after I had finished the Color lecture for the class I was teaching at MIT and I was appalled by the lack of color […]  ( 4 min )

One of the more overly strict features of video players in modern operating systems is that you can not use screen recording or screenshot tools to record content from streaming video platforms like Netflix or Disney+. Whilst I understand the need for DRM and preventing recording a streaming program, taking screenshots is a different matter. […]  ( 2 min )

Hey, so it’s been a minute since we announced that CSS-Tricks is now part of the DigitalOcean family. Things are pretty much business as usual and hopefully it feels that way to you, too. Now that we’re getting settled, we’re … Help Shape the Future of CSS-Tricks! originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 3 min )

We all make mistakes in our code. It happens! I know if I had one of those “Days Since Last Mistake” signs hanging over my desk, a big ol’ goose egg would be hovering above me all the time. It … My Dumbest CSS Mistakes originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 5 min )

Despite existing on separate continents thousands of miles apart, the Madeira brimstone and giant Patagonian bumblebee are experiencing similar hardships. The former, which inhabits the islands it inherits its name from, is dealing with an invasive species decimating the trees its caterpillars require pre-metamorphosis, while the latter has been struggling to survive in its native Chile after farmers introduced domesticated European bees to aid in crop pollination. Both species are in danger and are part of an ongoing exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History conveying what’s at stake if their species are lost entirely. More  ( 6 min )

Ever heard of a 10x engineer? They’re this mythical creature that allegedly generates ten times the value of a typical engineer. I was utterly delighted when someone shared the 1x engineer website with me! The site includes a list of “qualities that make up a 1x engineer,” and they sure are great! Searches Google, Duckduckgo, Bing, or wherever they like when they’re not sure what’s up. Copy/pastes code snippets from Stack Overflow, Glitch, Codepen, or wherever they find answers.  ( 3 min )

A danish designer with a love for creating digital solutions, currently working at Kontrapunkt.  ( 4 min )

In this episode, we ask if Sass is still relevant in 2022 and if it adds any value modern CSS workflows. Vitaly talks to expert Stephanie Eckles to find out.  ( 23 min )

A little grid interaction effect where adjoining items make way to a selected one that expands. The post Make Way Grid Effect appeared first on Codrops.  ( 5 min )

A follow-up to his wooden geometric figures, Mat Random designed a similarly stocky simian with a DIY twist. The architect and craftsman, who’s based in Buenos Aires, recently released a three-dimensional puzzle that once slotted together, forms a moveable ape-like creature. Made from 546 pieces that are laser cut from cardboard, the buildable figure has flexible joints and can be posed in various stances. “The Simian” is available as a limited edition in Random’s shop, and be sure to check out his Behance for more of his playful creations. More  ( 5 min )

A bright blue bodega, clustered wooden complexes, and a classic design emblazoned with a Swiss flag occupy the lush landscape of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden this summer. Eclectic in style, concept, and technique, the collection establishes dozens of tiny homes for avians across the 52-acre site as part of For the Birds, a group exhibition exploring the disastrous effects of the climate crisis on the feathered creatures—researchers estimate that North American populations have been reduced by 29 percent, or 3 billion birds, since 1970. More  ( 6 min )

Following a two-year hiatus, Vivid Sydney (previously) returned this May with a spectacular display of light and color. The annual month-long festival brings an array of installations, sculptures, and projections to the Australian city, and this year’s iteration included Lighting the Sails, a vibrant series of works by Aboriginal Martu artists that illuminated the Sydney Opera House with kaleidoscopic patterns, and a color-blocked animation on Customs House by Ken Donne. More  ( 5 min )

...but decentralization is right behind it.

The original definition of Aggregation Theory emphasized the importance of commoditized supply; that makes Spotify more of an Aggregator than Netflix  ( 18 min )

As part of our work to ensure a free and open web, we've been working together with Ecma International, and many partners to write a License inspired by the W3C Document and Software License. Our goal was that JavaScript’s status would align with other specifications of the Web. In addition, with this new license available to all TCs at Ecma International, this will provide other organizations to approach standardization with the same perspective. The post The JavaScript Specification has a New License appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.  ( 5 min )

Last week, I was asked what the best modern way to detect mobile devices was. The use case wasn’t adjusting content to work better at a specific viewport size, but to optimize content delivery for a couple of components and maybe omit some altogether for performance reasons. Today, I want to talk about when and why you shouldn’t detect mobile devices. Let’s dig in! Focus on preferences and network over devices Ultimately, it depends on what you’re trying to detect, and why.  ( 4 min )

Right after “Where is the best place to learn?” perhaps the most commonly asked question I hear from folks getting into code is “What web development books should I get to learn?” Well, consider this an answer to that question … Great (and Free!) Web Development Books You Can Get Online originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 13 min )

Gatsby 4 came out in October 2021 with a lot of new features. It may seem as if Gatsby 4 didn’t cause a big stir among developers, but it brought several game-changing features. Let’s see what v4 brings to the table.  ( 15 min )

A coding session where you'll learn how to create volumetric light rays with fragment shaders in Three.js. The post Volumetric Light Rays with Three.js appeared first on Codrops.  ( 5 min )

A fresh collection of the best and most creative animations from Dribbble from the past couple of weeks. The post UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #25 appeared first on Codrops.  ( 5 min )

Preface Threat modelling provides important context to security and privacy advice. Measures necessary to protect against an advanced threat are different from those effective against unsophisticated threats. Moreover, threats don’t always fall along a simple one-dimensional axis from “simple” to “advanced”. I appreciate seeing communities acknowledge this complexity. When qualifying privacy recommendations with context, I think we should go further than describing threat models: we should acknowledge different types of privacy. “Privacy” means different things to different people. Even a single person may use the word “privacy” differently depending on their situation. Understanding a user’s unique situation(s), can inform us when we select the best of approach. How do we choose between …  ( 9 min )

We’ve looked at spinners. We’ve looked at dots. Now we’re going to tackle another common pattern for loaders: bars. And we’re going to do the same thing in this third article of the series as we have the others … Single Element Loaders: The Bars originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 8 min )

For the better part of a decade, U.K.-born, Stockholm-based photographer Luke Stephenson has been fascinated by show birds, their impeccably groomed feathers, and undeniably unique personalities. Whether centering on a white-eyed Zosterop or confrontational Spereo Starling, his portraits are minimal with monochromatic backdrops that accentuate the distinct colors and patterns of each plume. The ongoing series, titled An Incomplete Dictionary of Show Birds, originated with Stephenson wanting to photograph budgies but was intrigued by other species when he met some of his future subjects and their owners. More  ( 5 min )

In the Gifu Prefecture of Japan, a nucleus of creativity blossomed in Kasahara Town, Tajimi City, more than a millennium ago. Known for its history of ceramic production, the region celebrates its distinctive heritage with a spring and autumn festival, a ceramics-themed park, and pottery shops that teach visitors the tradition. Among its newest attractions, set in a rolling green, the Mosaic Tile Museum Tajimi focuses on a more recent aspect of the ceramics industry. More  ( 6 min )

This week, Marcus Herrmann reminded me of one of my favorite HTML tricks. If you have an ordered list (ol) and want it to start with a number other than one, you can add the start attribute with the desired first number as its value. Merlin Ursula Radgast The example above would start with the number four. Here’s a demo. This is particularly useful if you have a list split across a few columns and want to keep them consistently numbered.  ( 3 min )

Partially visually hidden link names may be good for people who use screen readers, but they can be problematic for those who rely on voice control software. Here’s a suggestion on how to solve this.  ( 14 min )

Swedish audiovisual artist and woodworker Love Hultén is known for his extravagant and unconventional sound installations that fall at the intersection of music, art, and design. Whether an homage to Nintendo, Pacman, or Simone Giertz’s chattering mouths, the custom synthesizers are elaborate electronic instruments with broad audio capabilities and often, a unique MIDI visualizer that responds in real-time: play the keyboard of “NES-SY37,” for example, and a rendering evocative of a vintage video game will appear on a tiny LCD screen. More  ( 5 min )

Softness is often mistaken for weakness, and simplicity for lack, but Chiron Duong’s 365 Days of Ao Dai series holds the history of this Vietnamese tradition in full texture. According to Duong, “Vietnamese Ao Dai is not only a kind of national costume but also contains a rich history, cultural traditions, aesthetic conceptions, national consciousness, and spirit of the Vietnamese people.” The garment’s capacity to “contain many memories” is most obviously captured by multi-bodied portraits, such as photos from days 183 and 208 that indicate unfolding stories. More  ( 6 min )

Even in the wake of major weather events like the unprecedented flooding that closed Yellowstone National Park for the first time in decades last week, it can be difficult to grasp the magnitude of the climate crisis. The Tempestry Project has been striving to make such large-scale shifts more accessible and relatable through data-rich tapestries, which founders Asy Connelly and Emily McNeil discuss in a new interview supported by Colossal Members. More  ( 5 min )

For the last year, we've been working on the development of rust-minidump, a pure-Rust replacement for the minidump-processing half of google-breakpad. The final part in this series takes you through fuzzing rust-minidump. The post Fuzzing rust-minidump for Embarrassment and Crashes – Part 2 appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.  ( 14 min )

The cost of convenience * Building forms with custom elements * State of GraphQL The post Collective #717 appeared first on Codrops.  ( 6 min )

Over the last two weeks, I release a new course on accessible components and a new course on native web components, and completely redid my course on writing JavaScript libraries. Today, I wanted to talk about how I create my courses and ebooks. This article is focused on the actual content and finished books/videos. If you want to learn more about how I sell and deliver them, I wrote about the tech behind my learning platform a few years ago.  ( 7 min )

Johnnie Gomez is a dog-lover, sticker collector, music aficionado, conference enthusiast, and a Senior Brand Designer at Webflow working remotely from sunny Florida.  ( 7 min )

In this article, we will enhance the Gantt Chart component with some interaction possibilities for editing the jobs. In doing so, we will continue to work with Vanilla JS and Web Components and look at some JavaScript libraries that can greatly simplify the effort of developing a fully functional Gantt Chart.  ( 17 min )

Visit ChromeStatus.com for lists of current deprecations and previous removals. Chrome 104 beta was released on June 23, 2022 and is expected to become the stable version in early August, 2022. # Block third-party contexts navigating to filesystem URLs iframes can no longer navigate to filesystem URLs. Top frame support for navigating to filesystem URLs was dropped in Chrome 68. # Remove non-standard client hint mode Four client hints (dpr, width, viewport-width, and device-memory) have a default allowlist of self but behave as though they have a default allowlist of * on Android, contrary to the spec. This is now fixed, increasing privacy on Android by requiring explicit delegation of these hints. # Remove U2F API (cryptotoken) Chrome's legacy U2F API for interacting with security keys is…  ( 3 min )

The Attribution Reporting proposal is changing for Chrome version 104, with new API mechanisms, functionality, and updates to the aggregation service. To get the latest information on versions, sign up for Chrome OS release notifications. # Who are these updates for? These updates are for you if: You already are familiar with the API—for example, if you've been observing or participating in the discussions on the WICG repository and want to understand the changes made to the API. You're using the Attribution Reporting API in a demo or plan to test in the origin trial. If you're just getting started with this API and/or have not experimented with it yet, go directly to the introduction to the API instead. The Google Chrome team will host developer office hours, where developers who are test…  ( 4 min )

# What is Early Hints? Websites have become more sophisticated over time. As such, it's not unusual that a server needs to perform non-trivial work (for example, access to databases, or CDNs accessing the origin server) to produce the HTML for the requested page. Unfortunately, this "server think-time" results in extra latency before the browser can start rendering the page. Indeed, the connection effectively goes idle for as long as it takes the server to prepare the response. Without Early Hints: everything is blocked on the server determining how to respond for the main resource. Early Hints is an HTTP status code (103 Early Hints) used to send a preliminary HTTP response ahead of a final response. This allows a server to send hints to the browser about critical sub-resources (for exam…  ( 7 min )

One of the most reliable communication materials for centuries, paper historically has served as a vessel, a container for notes or the foundation of an artwork. An upcoming group exhibition at Heron Arts, though, focuses on the humble medium itself and highlights 14 contemporary artists expanding its creative potential. Paper Show features an array of styles, structures, and techniques from the whimsical mobiles of Yuko Nishikawa and Roberto Benavidez’s piñatas to Julia Ibbini’s laser-cut motifs and typographic messages from Judith + Rolfe. More  ( 5 min )

For Alice Pasquini, painting outside among pedestrians, cars, and the milieu of local life is an inherent component of her practice. The artist begins each mural by studying the intended wall and its physical qualities. Material, paint color, and various markings and damages offer indications about the area’s history and people, she says, and form a well-worn, culturally situated canvas. She then renders large-scale pieces of affectionate couples, children, and figures with extraordinarily kind and welcoming faces, expressions that contrast the largely subversive and politically charged messages synonymous with street art. More  ( 5 min )

Storm King Art Center is situated on the ancestral homelands of the Lenape, a reference point that Kenyan-American artist Wangechi Mutu returns to for a new exhibition at the outdoor museum in Hudson Valley. Comprised of her signature sculptures of immense hybrid figures, the largely bronze body of work addresses settler-colonialism and the inextricable tie between people and the land. Perpetually evoking nature and mythology to address historical issues of contemporary relevance, Mutu positions women as the most powerful, revering their physical form and highlighting their innate connection to ecology. More  ( 6 min )

I’m 100% convinced that working demo-to-demo is the secret formula to making successful creative products. Video games have a strong history of ritualizing prototypes, play testing, and following the fun. There’s even some data that suggests prototypes increase your chances of success. Mentioned in Creativity, Inc and exemplified in the Frozen II documentary Into the Unknown, Pixar and Disney Animation use “dailies” to demo work in progress. Each animator shares their progress every day on the five seconds of film they’re responsible for. Outlined in Ken Kocienda’s book Creative Selection, Apple’s clandestine “Project Purple” that made the iPhone embraced frequent demos when creating iOS, but at the speed at which they were working “hallway demos” would happen hours or minutes after a prev…  ( 2 min )

In my last real job before I started teaching JavaScript full time, the company I worked for sold API management software. Customers would get access to a white-label CMS they could use to document their APIs, register developers, and manage access to different endpoints. My job was to make that CMS look like their rest of their brand. Imagine something like WordPress or Squarespace, but with way fewer DIY hooks. I’d add their logo and brand colors and typeface, and create a homepage they were happy with.  ( 4 min )

We’re all familiar with the standard way of linking up a stylesheet to the of an HTML doc, right? That’s just one of several ways we’re able to write CSS. But what does it look like to style things … Different Ways to Write CSS in React originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 6 min )

Looking for ways to test your product faster? In this article, Sergey Krasotin uncovers common mistakes startup product designers make that lead to longer MVP testing times. To test your product within two weeks or even less, follow these simple practices proven by Sergey’s experience with over 100 startups and accelerators.  ( 16 min )

Safari Technology Preview Release 147 is now available for download for macOS Monterey 12.3 or later and macOS Ventura beta.  ( 2 min )

In the township of Hume in rural eastern Michigan, an unassuming barn stands sentry in a wide-open field, partially covered in wild vines and grasses. Like many Midwestern farm structures, it’s weathered and has seen years of use and repairs, but one recent alteration makes it a standout among its counterparts: a careful cut through the middle of the structure reveals a slice of sky. Conceived by Detroit-based architect and educator Catie Newell, founder of Alibi Studio, the project reworks the iconic framework of an aging farm building to allow light through an unexpected aperture. More  ( 6 min )

Japanese artist Tomohiro Suzuki is behind the minimal wooden menagerie of Kyoto-based workshop Kokemusu Mokkou. From hunks of walnut, Suzuki carves miniature sculptures of wildlife like antelope, elephants, and bears, with innumerable divots and gouges forming the distinct textured patterns of their coats or skin. The artist tells Colossal that he focuses on achieving the natural shape of a hind leg or tusk first and uses the small impressions to add tactile depth to the creatures, which often appear mid-movement atop their metallic supports. More  ( 5 min )

From rival spotted redshanks to combatting spoonbills, quite a few finalists from the 2022 Bird Photographer of the Year contest center on avians as they fight for territory, food, and mates. The seventh-annual competition garnered more than 20,000 entries from 115 countries that capture a wildly diverse array of behaviors and habitats. Winners officially will be announced in September and coincide with a book release and exhibition of the top photos. Until then, see some of our favorites below, and check out last year’s winners, too. More  ( 5 min )

Explaining exactly why Apple's approach to ATT is anti-competitive  ( 20 min )

One of the hardest things about learning how to code is being able to actually put all of your learning together to build a thing. You can memorize JavaScript methods and browser API and understand the fundamentals, but building a project from scratch is hard. So, a few years ago, I put together the Vanilla JS Academy, an online JavaScript workshop. A new session starts on July 18, and enrollment opens up on Monday.  ( 6 min )

A coding session where you'll learn how to recreate the galaxy made of particles from the Viverse website. The post Creating a Particles Galaxy with Three.js appeared first on Codrops.  ( 5 min )

Craig Parsons is the founder of Ireland-based PARSONS. The African-born Creative Director designs identity systems for people who want to connect their company to an idea and discover the maximum potential impact that idea has on the world. Follow his work on Instagram: @_craigparsons.  ( 5 min )

Do you feel stuck in a company where you're not sure your work is appreciated? Do job titles matter? Do you believe you deserve a raise but it never happens? Do you think you might need to change the job? Let’s figure it out. In this article, Vitaly looks at some things he wishes he’d known earlier in his career.  ( 17 min )

Here's what you need to know: There's a new HTTP 103 status code that helps the browser decide what content to preload before the page has even started to arrive. The Local Font Access API gives web applications the ability to enumerate and use fonts installed on the user's computer. AbortSignal.timeout() is an easier way to implement timeouts on asynchronous APIs. And there's plenty more. I'm Pete LePage. Let's dive in and see what's new for developers in Chrome 103. # HTTP 103 status code 103 - early hints One way you can improve page performance is to use resource hints. They give the browser "hints" about what stuff it might need later. For example, preloading files, or connecting to a different server. <link as="f…  ( 5 min )

When you have your OS set up in dark mode seeing bright form elements is grating. By starting your style sheet with a single line of CSS, you can make sure that people using dark mode get dark form elements and backgrounds and those using light mode, light ones. You can see it in this […]  ( 1 min )

Case study sharing the creative story behind the bright, expressive, and daring website design by tubik agency for the Nonconventional Show podcast.  ( 11 min )

Last week, Mads Stoumann tweeted… Today I opened a 10-year old vanilla-js app — and it just worked! No node/npm woes … This kind of thing continues to be one of my biggest attractions to a more browser-native experience. I have so many projects I built just a few years ago using Gulp that are littered with broken dependencies. If I need to make any updates, I first need to patch a bunch of out-of-date NPM dependencies.  ( 3 min )

In JavaScript, it’s natural to reach for timers when something is to happen on time. But when something is to happen at the exact moment because other things depend on it, you quickly learn timers are more of a problem than a solution. They are never on time, really. Web Animations API could eliminate the need for timers in certain cases while being precise.  ( 18 min )

In 1995, I got my first PC with Windows 95 and my first web browser, unbeknownst to me at the time, was Internet Explorer 1.0. I dialed my computer into AOL checked my mail, checked my favorite chat rooms, but I soon learned the Internet I wanted existed outside the in-app silo of America Online. I wanted to surf and create content on the information super highway. Through Angelfire and AOL Pages, I stayed up late creating my own worlds on the World Wide Web. In 1998, I went to college and was peer pressured to use Netscape by my roommates. Netscape had an exciting atmosphere about it, and its move to open source turned fellow Computer Science nerds into gleeful converts. That move to open source would be a critical change in the life of Netscape but also in the life of the Web and in the …  ( 3 min )

For five days in November 2020, a house in Sainte-Marie, Québec, identified all of its residents and neighbors on Saint Louis Avenue. Antoine Audet, Maude Faucher, James Audet… the list included hundreds of names inked on strips of white paper and pasted to the clapboards. The ephemeral design was the project of Louis Gagnon, creative director of the Montréal-based studio Paprika who lived in the house as a child and wanted to honor its tenants and friends before it was demolished. More  ( 2 min )

In the unearthly Metamorphe series, smoke-like masses swirl around hoodoos and dunes dotting the terrain. A mysterious air pervades the six illuminated works, which blend the drone-light photographs of Reuben Wu (previously) with Jenni Pasanen’s digital creations produced through artificial intelligence. Each piece envisions the earth’s surface following metamorphosis when living beings are extinct and only the landscape remains. Named after human senses, the otherworldly composites imagine topographies brimming with enormous formations of stone and sand to explore the “sublime and beyond emotion,” the artists say. More  ( 2 min )

Basic geometric forms like circles, triangles, and lines alchemize into a hypnotic study of patterns in a new short film from the Barcelona-based Diatomic Studio. Part of their Tiles series, the animation applies kinetic principles to minimal, black-and-white renderings. The actions, which include transaction, rotation, and trajectory, transform the otherwise static shapes into mesmerizing tessellations and increasingly complex and dizzying motifs. For more of Diatomic Studio’s experiments in geometry and physics, head to Vimeo. More  ( 2 min )

We’re looking at loaders in this series. More than that, we’re breaking down some common loader patterns and how to re-create them with nothing more than a single div. So far, we’ve picked apart the classic spinning loader. Now, … Single Element Loaders: The Dots originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 6 min )

On Wednesday, we learned what web components are and when and why you might want to use them. Yesterday, we at looked at how to create web components from custom elements. Today, we’re going to wrap up the series by adding interactivity to our component. Let’s dig in! Today’s article is an excerpt from my new course and ebook on web components with vanilla JS. Lifecycle callback hooks Using web component lifecycle hooks and traditional DOM manipulation techniques, we can add built-in interactivity to our web components.  ( 6 min )

In this article, Andrii shares his approach to managing tables in Figma in an easier, more streamlined way when there is a need to support different screen resolutions, change the order of columns, and use real-life content.  ( 9 min )

A photographer doubling as an inventor of the bizarre, Mathieu Stern has been developing new cameras based on simple ideas: one collection is created for pharaohs, another designed by Aztecs, and others are inspired by superheroes and pop culture. The devices are visually intriguing and wildly diverse, but unfortunately, they’re not real. DALL-E 2, which accepts short natural language text prompts and then generates near photo-realistic images, often with uncanny results. More  ( 2 min )

Wander into Frode Bolhuis’s Almere-based studio, and you’ll be introduced to an entire cast of characters pinned to the wall. There’s one figure picking at the tufts of her broom-like head, another sporting a bubble gum pink suit resembling the Michelin man, and a woman swaddled in a cozy, fabric cocoon. Sculpted primarily from polymer clay, the miniature works are part of the Dutch artist’s ongoing project that involves creating a few of the colorful personas each week. More  ( 2 min )

The entrance to a building housing some of Aberdeen’s most vulnerable residents and charity organizations is the site of the latest work by Pejac (previously). Comprised of minuscule figures congregating as a welcome mat, the streetside intervention confronts the hardships people face when relegated to society’s margins. The idea is that they’re “tired of being stepped over,” the artist says, and that there’s hope, dignity, and pride to be found when we’re united. More  ( 2 min )

Untools * Patterns * CSS Shadow Gradients * In circles and spheres * Better scrolling through modern CSS The post Collective #716 appeared first on Codrops.  ( 4 min )

Samuel Aboagye is a genius. Aboagye is 17 years old. In those 17 years, he’s crafted more inventions than you have, probably. Among them: a solar-powered bike and a Bluetooth speaker, both using recycled materials. We caught up with Aboagye over video chat in hopes that he’d talk with us about his creations, and ultimately how he’s way cooler than any of us at 17. The post Hacks Decoded: Bikes and Boomboxes with Samuel Aboagye appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.  ( 3 min )

Yesterday, we looked at what web components are. Today, I wanted to share how to actually create one. Let’s dig in! Today’s article is an excerpt from my new course and ebook on web components with vanilla JS. Creating a web component To help make the concepts in this guide tangible, we’re going to build a really simple web component: greeting-message. When we’re done, the component will load a button into the UI, and display a welcome message when the button is clicked.  ( 3 min )

San Francisco based designer currently bridging the Brand Studio and Design Systems teams at Dropbox.  ( 3 min )

All the data in the world won’t do anyone any good if we can’t make sense of it. Or better yet, make it sing. Here are some stunning examples of data visualization in the wild, and some pointers on how to start making your own.  ( 7 min )

Media Queries enabled responsive design, and the range features that enable testing the minimum and maximum size of the viewport are used by around 80% of sites that use media queries. The Media Queries Level 4 specification includes a new syntax for these range queries. The new syntax has been available in Firefox since Firefox 63, and will be available in Chrome from 104. Let’s take a look at how it can streamline your queries. A typical media query testing for a minimum viewport width, would be written as follows: @media (min-width: 400px) { // Styles for viewports with a width of 400 pixels or greater. } The new syntax allows for the use of a comparison operator: @media (width >= 400px) { // Styles for viewports with a width of 400 pixels or greater. } Testing for a maximum width: …  ( 2 min )

Stone isn’t naturally malleable, and yet, Japanese artist Hirotoshi Ito (previously) carves his sculptures to make the material appear as if it can be unzipped or sliced with a butter knife. Using rocks he finds on beaches near his home in Matsumoto City, Ito chisels tiny caverns that he lines with clasps or simple fasteners. He then tucks miniature objects like teeth, a collection of seashells, and futuristic scenes into those pockets, creating surreal and intriguingly deceptive scenarios in the span of a few inches. More  ( 2 min )

A new print from Thomas Scott and Jim Golden satisfies our human urge to organize. The color-coded flat lay arranges dozens of gloves Scott picked up from sidewalks and roadsides while cycling within the first few months of 2022 into a precise gradient. Containing everything from knit mitts and dishwashing essentials to protective workwear, the piece falls into the endlessly fascinating design category of “Things Organized Neatly”—we covered curator Austin Radcliffe’s book on the topic a few years back—and offers some hope that all those gloves we’ve lost throughout the years have found an equally beautiful home. More  ( 2 min )

Similar to her abstract masses of feathers, a new series of murals by artist Adele Renault highlights the vibrant colors and textures abundant in nature. Plantasia, which consists of smaller works on canvas and large-scale public pieces, magnifies the leaves from dandelions, banana trees, stinging nettle, and other species. Enlarging the specimens to reveal the intricate vein networks and subtle grooves in their midst, the lush murals are bright standouts among largely urban landscapes. More  ( 2 min )

Maya Ruiz-Picasso, Pablo Picasso’s eldest daughter with Marie-Thérèse Walter, used to join her father in the kitchen of their apartment to draw together. They filled multiple sketchbooks with playful renderings of animals, fruit, and clowns, and the Spanish artist even created a special book devoted to instructing Maya on how to paint. These lovingly collaborative works are on view for the first time at The Picasso Museum in Paris after Maya’s daughter, Diana Widmaier-Ruiz-Picasso, discovered the collection of drawings while sorting through storage. More  ( 3 min )

I just released a new course and ebook on Web Components with Vanilla JS. (If you already own my complete set of courses or the expert bundle, this is a free upgrade you’ll already see in your account.) This week, I wanted to share an excerpt from the guide. Today, we’ll be looking at what web components actually are, and why you might want to use them. Let’s dig in!  ( 3 min )

Calendars, shopping carts, galleries, file explorers, and online libraries are some situations where selectable items are shown in grids (i.e. square lattices). You know, even those security checks that ask you to select all images with crosswalks or whatever. 🧐… Conditionally Styling Selected Elements in a Grid Container originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 6 min )

Enjoy three atmospheric illustration sets filled with vibes of famous landmarks, urban atmosphere, and beauty of architecture wrapped into modern digital art.  ( 8 min )

In this article, we’ll see how to make our sites friendly for Windows High Contrast Mode by using a good set of practices, including the media query `forced-colors` and its toolset.  ( 15 min )

A reflection on user experience and disability.  ( 5 min )

Deciphering the informational arcana of public records.  ( 7 min )

Look up! The vibrant embroideries of the U.K.-based artist known as Sew Beautiful capture the awe-inspiring breadth of the outdoors within a tiny wooden hoop. Layering colorful French knots and long, straight threads in neutral tones, the artist transforms thin organza bases into fiber renditions of forests dense with autumn leaves or aerial shots capturing wide swaths of landscape. The hand-stitched pieces are vivid and tinged with whimsy, and Sew Beautiful has a few works currently available on Etsy. More  ( 2 min )

Wales-based artist Polly Verity (previously) coaxes sheets of watercolor paper, canvas, and wire mesh into elegantly suggestive sculptures. The minimal works are carefully molded through a series of bends, twists, and slight folds that contour pursed lips or a rose grazing a nose, and each curve subtly alters the figure’s expression. Alongside her facial silhouettes, Verity also shapes fragmented torsos and voluptuous limbs, an expansion of her practice that connects the “sensual and yielding” material more directly to the subject matter. More  ( 2 min )

The natural world and moments of tenderness merge in Lincolnshire-based artist Nichola Theakston’s expressive sculptures. Serene mammals sculpted in terracotta and cast in bronze characterize a tranquil animal world in which they relax, reflect, and dream. “The notion that an individual creature may experience some spiritual dimension beyond its instinctive animal behaviours is the premise behind much of my work,” she explains in a statement. With half-closed eyes or faces turned skyward, each portrait is an intimate exploration of feeling and empathy. More  ( 3 min )

Stoats, a type of short-tailed weasel, are known for their mesmerizing dances, a distraction tactic that involves twists and leaps like the one captured by photographer Jose Grandío. Jumping above the snowy landscape, the ermine bends its tiny body and opens its mouth in an extravagant gesture. Grandío’s shot is one of a dozen winners in the 2022 BigPicture Natural World Photography competition, which showcases the stunning diversity of life around the world. More  ( 2 min )

Well, sheesh. I opened a little can of worms when sharing Miriam’s “Am I on the IndieWeb yet?” with a short post bemoaning my own trouble getting on the IndieWeb train. But it’s a good can of worms. I think … De-Mystifying IndieWeb on a WordPress Site originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 8 min )

For the last year, we've been working on the development of rust-minidump, a pure-Rust replacement for the minidump-processing half of google-breakpad. The first in this two-part series explains what minidumps are, and how we made rust-minidump. The post Everything Is Broken: Shipping rust-minidump at Mozilla – Part 1 appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.  ( 15 min )

Today, I wanted to take a look at the Object.entries() method: what it does, and when and why you might use it. Let’s dig in! Converting an array into an object with the Object.entries() method The Object.entries() method accepts an object as an argument, and returns an array. Each item in the returned array is itself an array, where the first item is a key from the object, and the second item is its matching value.  ( 2 min )

I am a multidisciplinary designer who loves to find beauty on the intersection of natural and artificial. Playing with light, color, and textures, I always try to find place for experimentation and expand the borders of ordinary solutions. My mission is to imagine visual languages for the future while establishing meaningful connections with other creators and thoughtful brands alike.  ( 3 min )

Do you need search for your site, but haven’t found the time to add it? Within 15 minutes, Leonardo Losoviz explains how you can add a super powerful search that also looks super good. In this article, you’ll learn how to go from 0 to 100 with search.  ( 6 min )

The trick to turning potential into productivity, @mhashemi says, is to distill it down into four stages: consume, critique, curate, create. Here's how:  ( 6 min )

A few well-thought out questions can ensure the next role you take is the right fit. @simpsoka shares tips for how to prepare on The ReadME Project:  ( 5 min )

When in doubt, maintainers should remember that they’re not in it alone. They have a community to help them make the right call. Read more about decision-making in open source:  ( 7 min )

On the road to pre-med, @FrancesCoronel pivoted to programming and is now making it as easy as possible for others to make their first contributions. Her full story, now on The ReadME Project:  ( 8 min )

Stripe software engineer @mhashemi is motivated by the camaraderie of the open source community, in particular his fellow Pythonists about town. His full story is now on The ReadME Project:  ( 10 min )

Interested in helping improve DevTools? Sign up to participate in Google User Research here. # Capture double-click and right-click events in the Recorder panel The Recorder panel can now capture double-click and right-click events. In this example, start a recording and try to perform the following steps: Double-click the card to enlarge it Right-click the card and select an action from the context menu To understand how Recorder captured these events, expand the steps: Double-click is captured as type: doubleClick. Right-click event is captured as type: click but with the button property is set to secondary. The button value of a normal mouse click is primary. Chromium issues: 1300839, 1322879, 1299701, 1323688 # New timespan and snapshot mode in the Lighthouse panel You can now use Li…  ( 11 min )

A diagram is a graphical representation of information that depicts the structure, relationship, or operation of anything. Diagrams enable your audience to visually grasp hidden information and engage with them in ways that words alone cannot. Depending on the type … Useful Tools for Visualizing Databases on a Budget originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 4 min )

Norfolk-based artist Vanessa Lubach likens her printmaking practice to that of oil painting and draws on the latter to inform her vibrant compositions. “I linocut like a painter and paint like a linocutter, and the two disciplines work together to inform and enhance each other,” she tells Colossal. Whether depicting bunches of dahlias and cosmos in a ceramic pitcher or an enchanting forest landscape, Lubach’s works center on quiet moments in domestic interiors or out among nature. More  ( 2 min )

Daoming Town in Sichuan Province, China, is known for its bamboo weaving traditions. “The practice,” says Archi-Union Architects, “is more than a rural industry. It is an integral part of the way families in the town spend time together and how neighbors visit with each another.” One of the firm’s projects titled “In Bamboo” is an homage to this rich local custom. Constructed in just 52 days back in 2018, the multi-use pavilion stretches 1,800 square meters and contains space for exhibitions, gatherings, and dining. More  ( 2 min )

Last week, one of my students asked… Have you written about your approach to creating helper functions? I was more wondering about your mental model when making something like that to be widely used…perhaps how you break down the problem to make the most effective/efficient or DRY helper? Great question. Today, I want to discuss how I approach helper functions. Let’s dig in! Standalone vs. collection For a while, I was really into helper libraries.  ( 4 min )

Designer Pearse O’Halloran’s work for the Outer Hebrides-based restaurant.  ( 1 min )

Creative Brand Design, a leading web design agency, has curated a few tools and resources that you can use to help you understand what localisation is and how it’s used in the context of your web design. The post Designing Cross-Cultural Websites appeared first on Codrops.  ( 7 min )

In this article, Eva gives an overview of what embedded systems are and how they impact our lives. She presents three main learnings gained across her quest for creating better-embedded systems to enable the world as we know it.  ( 9 min )

Zero-COVID is possible, but few of us in the West are willing to pay the costs; the exact same reasoning applies to free speech; in both cases China-lite is the worst possible strategy.  ( 12 min )

This article was originally written for DigitalOcean. Introduction In An Introduction to GraphQL, you learned that GraphQL is an open-source…  ( 11 min )

Reply to by UX patterns for CLI toolsLucas F. Costa This began as a reply to another article by Lucas F. Costa; it lists practices to improve user-experience () of command-line interfaces (). It comes from a good place, and has some good advice: I particularly like its advice on input-validation and understandable errors. Unfortunately, a number of its suggestions are problematic, particularly from an accessibility perspective.UXCLIs This is a “living article” that I plan on adding to indefinitely. If you like it, come back in a month or two and check the “changelog” link in the article header. Note: this article specifically concerns CLIs, not full-blown textual user interfaces (). It also focuses on utilities for UNIX-like shells; other command-line environments may have differe…  ( 8 min )

“Light,” says Chris Wood, “is the purest form of radiance.” The Cambridgeshire-based artist is known for her dazzling installations made of dichroic glass—this transparent material produces a shifting spectrum of color depending on the viewpoint—that emit phenomenal prisms illuminated. Often arranged on a panel or wall, the works evoke organic patterns, like helices, murmurations, and in the case of Wood’s most recent piece, the spiral of a nautilus shell. A commission from the beauty brand Clé de Peau Beauté in celebration of its 40th anniversary, this new rainbow-like installation revolves around that milestone. More  ( 3 min )

Canadian artist Winnie Truong recontextualizes the sleek, piecey qualities of human hair in her cut-paper collages. Constructed in layers within rectangular frames, the surreal works utilize the soft texture to depict flowers, vegetation, and strange anthropomorphic figures with elongated fingers and faces obscured by body parts or surroundings. Each piece is rooted in Truong’s drawing practice, and the colored pencil renderings add depth to the mythical compositions. An extension of her two-dimensional works, these dioramas similarly explore the connection between women and nature. More  ( 2 min )

I am by no means a command line (or CLI) power user. In the past, I’ve written about how you don’t need to know command line to be a good developer, and why you might want to learn it anyways (and some resources to do so). Today, I want to talk about a few tools I use that make working in the CLI easier. Let’s dig in! Oh My Zsh!  ( 1 min )

Making CSS-only loaders is one of my favorite tasks. It’s always satisfying to look at those infinite animations. And, of course, there are lots of techniques and approaches to make them — no need to look further than CodePen to … Single Element Loaders: The Spinner originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 7 min )

[DevFest for Ukraine](https://devfest.gdg.org.ua/) is a charitable online conference that will bring together 20 industry-leading tech speakers in support of Ukraine. June 14–15.  ( 2 min )

In this article, Thomas Bohm explains ways to test typefaces and other typographic issues. Though this article is slightly high-end and academic, fear not. The content will be interesting, especially for committed typeface designers and typographers. If you like complex issues and problems, this is for you.  ( 15 min )

Hey, this is number 300 of my article recommendation summaries. It’s crazy to see where this project is now compared to when I started: I always read a lot of resources and missed some sort of summary. Back then, I was blogging more often myself and so I just published my first summary on my blog. Quickly after, I realized that this makes more sense for many people to get it via email and I started using TinyLetter for my first 12 subscribers. It grew quickly to about 100 subscribers and then onwards to 500. At some point Vitaly Friedman from Smashing Magazine asked me whether I wanted to publish the summaries on their site as well and I agreed. This gave the project a huge boost and I had to switch to the self-hosted Mailcoach + Amazon SES sending service which served me well until this y…  ( 4 min )

Jeremy Mayer challenges the notion that typewriters’ creative output is confined to the written word. The artist scours shops and trash bins near his Bay Area studio for analog processors in disrepair that he then disassembles, sorts, and reconstructs into metallic sculptures. His previous works include symmetrical assemblages, anatomical recreations, and an ongoing series of birds, the most recent of which are shown here. Mayer builds every piece solely from original parts rather than soldering or gluing, and some sculptures, including the black crow with a Corona-brand typewriter logo on its back, feature spring-like components that allow the creatures to bob their heads. More  ( 2 min )

Katsuhiro Otomo’s 1988 sci-fi classic Akira has had an unparalleled influence on anime and film, and an exhibition at the Tchoban Foundation in Berlin showcases the original drawings that brought its futuristic cyberpunk setting to life. Akira – The Architecture of Neo Tokyo features 59 production backdrops, layouts, concepts, and image boards, many of which have never been shown publicly. The collection includes now-iconic works by art director Toshiharu Mizutani and collaborators Katsufumi Hariu, Norihiro Hiraki, Shinji Kimura, Satoshi Kuroda, Hiromasa Ogura, Hiroshi Ōno, Hajime Soga, Tsutomu Uchida, and Takashi Watabe. More  ( 3 min )

Can’t smash the Like button hard enough for what Miriam Suzanne has to say on the challenging technical hurdles of implementing Webmentions: The first round required several online services along with HTML & JS changes to my static site, just to verify my … Am I on the IndieWeb yet? originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 2 min )

YouTube videos embedded on a webpage load a bunch of JavaScript behind-the-scenes. If you have a bunch of them on a page, or you have a video that someone might not play, it can result in page lag or downloaded files that aren’t actually needed. Today, we’re going to look at how to show a thumbnail for the video instead, and wait until it’s clicked to load and play the video.  ( 4 min )

Scarlett is a graphic designer based in Shanghai. She founded the independent design studio RELATED DEPARTMENT (有关设计部门) in 2017, and the self-publishing practice Page Bureau (书局) in 2018. The next thing on her to-do list is to set up a design research division called est.dept (东部).  ( 3 min )

Re-evaluating technology * ffmpeg buddy * Rulex * Plasmo Framework The post Collective #715 appeared first on Codrops.  ( 4 min )

This article explores the evolution and the future of frontend tooling, presenting a new set of tools featuring a change in paradigm, platform, or both.  ( 8 min )

The mobile-first design methodology is great—it focuses on what really matters to the user, it’s well-practiced, and it’s been a common design pattern for years. So developing your CSS mobile-first should also be great, too…right?  Well, not necessarily. Classic mobile-first CSS development is based on the principle of overwriting style declarations: you begin your CSS with default style declarations, and overwrite and/or add new styles as you add breakpoints with min-width media queries for larger viewports (for a good overview see “What is Mobile First CSS and Why Does It Rock?”). But all those exceptions create complexity and inefficiency, which in turn can lead to an increased testing effort and a code base that’s harder to maintain. Admit it—how many of us willingly want that? On your…  ( 10 min )

Here's what you need to know: Installed PWAs can register as file handlers, making it easy for users to open files directly from disk. The inert attribute allows you to mark parts of the DOM as inert. The Navigation API makes it easier for single page apps to handle navigation and updates to the URL And there's plenty more. I'm Pete LePage. Let's dive in and see what's new for developers in Chrome 102. # File Handling API The File Handling API allows installed PWAs to register with the OS as a file handler. Once registered, a user can click on a file to open it with the installed PWA. This is perfect for PWAs that interact with files, for example, image editors, IDEs, text editors, and so on. To add file handling functionality to your PWA, you'll need to update your web app manifest, addin…  ( 3 min )

Thin, interlaced strips of Japanese paper, gold leaf, and the occasional watercolor detail extend the life of a broadsheet when in the care of French-Candian artist Myriam Dion (previously). Through slicing, weaving, and gluing, the daily publications find new meaning and relevance as the artist overlays their pages with intricate lace patterns. These precise motifs obscure much of the text, leaving only a prominent headline or single image entirely visible. More  ( 4 min )

The basis of life for many species, seeds hold immense power for reproduction and population. Whether a descendent of the first specimens that appeared approximately 400 million years ago or a modern hybrid cultivated to increase food production, the generative forms are often visually striking in their own right with otherworldly colors, textures, and shapes. Photographer Thierry Ardouin showcases these marvelous, strange qualities through hundreds of striking macro shots now compiled in a forthcoming book and exhibition. More  ( 3 min )

A glimpse into Konekono Kitsune’s workspace in Tokyo likely resembles a farmer’s market stand more than a fiber studio. Using countless layers of thread and the occasional felt base, the artist stitches curly kale, collard greens, and other fare that bear a striking likeness to their real-life counterparts: dense tufts in green form broccoli florets, a broad bean pod splits open to reveal a soft downy inside, and tight rows line the undulating surface of a sweet potato. More  ( 2 min )

QR codes are funny, right? We love them, then hate them, then love them again. Anyways, they’ve lately been popping up again and it got me thinking about how they’re made. There are like a gazillion QR code generators out … Let’s Make a QR Code Generator With a Serverless Function! originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 3 min )

For the last four years, I’ve offered automatic location-based pricing adjustments on all of my courses and workshops. Customers who live in countries where the exchange rate and local economy make my products more expensive relative to someone living in the US can purchase my products at a reduced price. Today, I wanted to share how I actually implement this, including how I figure out what the adjustments for various countries should be.  ( 5 min )

A short tutorial on how to animate SVG paths while smooth scrolling a page. The post How to Animate SVG Shapes on Scroll appeared first on Codrops.  ( 6 min )

CSS color-mix is an experimental function that blends two colors and can be used to simplify color palettes. You can define a color palette and theme without too much effort using CSS color-mix().  ( 9 min )

GitHub Copilot is already the dog’s bollocks, but I just installed the GitHub Labs extension and my jaw is still open. Code explanation This one allows you to highlight a piece of code and get explanations of what it does: For example: async function downloadZipFile(downloadUrl) { await fs.remove(‘out/edge’); const file = fs.createWriteStream(‘edge.zip’); https.get(downloadUrl, function(response) { […]  ( 1 min )

Simone Saunders’ love-based practice adds its own texture to the magic of Black joy and resilience. On Instagram, she writes: I celebrate the wins. I know the darkness in this world, so do you. It can drag us down. And when I post, positive messaging is key for me. To share light and love and to look at the world as vibrant and colourful as it can be….It’s reflected in my textiles, to uplift narratives often tethered to dark undertones, with the gift of bright hues. More  ( 3 min )

Make your weekend plans with us! Each Thursday, we send out our favorite art and culture events around Chicago and London, including exhibition openings, artist talks, and other fun happenings. We also share news about our partnerships, where to see art featured on Colossal, and words from our friends. Sign up here to get this week’s edition directly to your inbox. If you have an event you’d like us to consider or are interested in sponsoring these newsletters, submit your idea to tips@thisiscolossal.com. More  ( 2 min )

The word ochre tends to be associated with the warm brownish-yellow color, although it also refers to the physical substance that once removed from the earth, crushed, and combined with liquid, becomes paint. In a new interview supported by Colossal Members, we speak to forager, artist, and researcher Heidi Gustafson, who established the Early Futures Ochre Sanctuary in 2017 and has since amassed hundreds of samples of these pigments. More  ( 2 min )

The Bergamot project is a collaboration between Mozilla, University of Edinburgh, Charles University in Prague, the University of Sheffield, and University of Tartu with funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. It brings MT to the local environment, providing small, high-quality, CPU optimized NMT models. The Firefox Translations web extension utilizes proceedings of project Bergamot and brings local translations to Firefox. In this article, we will discuss the components used to train our efficient NMT models. The post Training efficient neural network models for Firefox Translations appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.  ( 8 min )

Websites have many reasons to notify their users of time-sensitive or high-priority events, even if the user does not currently have the site open.  ( 4 min )

I just launched a brand new course and book: Accessible Components with Vanilla JS. This course covers the ins-and-outs of building accessible, interactive UI components in about an hour. You’ll learn… What assistive technology is How to enable and use a screen reader The basics of navigating the web with a keyboard The dangers of CSS-only interactive components The importance of HTML semantics Focus management essentials How to hide content, and accessibility considerations when doing so How to announce dynamic changes to the UI How to indicate button state How to build four of the most common interactive components If you already own my complete set of pocket guides or the expert bundle, this is a free upgrade (and if you buy one of them, the course is included at a steep discount).  ( 1 min )

María Luque was born in Argentina in 1983. She has been exhibiting her work since 2005 in museums and independent spaces in Argentina, Chile, Peru, México, Spain, and Portugal. Her work comprises drawing and painting, and it sometimes results in publications and fanzines. She’s the author of “La mano del pintor” a graphic novel about the painter Cándido López (Sigilo, 2016, L'Agrume Éditions, 2017), “Casa transparente” (Sexto piso, 2017, Premio Novela Gráfica Ciudades Iberoamericanas), "Espuma" (Galería Editorial, 2018) and "Noticias de pintores" (Sigilo, 2019).  ( 3 min )

Those of us who’ve been web developers more than a few years have probably written code using more than one JavaScript framework. With all the choices out there — React, Svelte, Vue, Angular, Solid — it’s all but inevitable. One … Building Interoperable Web Components That Even Work With React originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 13 min )

Computer technologies have simplified the process of recording historical events, technological breakthroughs, contemporary art, and everyday life. However, the notion of digital archiving can be deceptive. Often our technical footprints are carved in sand rather than stone.  ( 9 min )

WWDC22 is here, and with it, a host of announcements of new web technology shipping in WebKit on macOS, iOS and iPadOS, including advancements in privacy and security – plus new features for Safari, Web Inspector and Safari Web Extensions.  ( 3 min )

WebKit has had a big year, with over 162 new features and improvements shipping in WebKit browsers — including Safari 15.2, Safari 15.4, and Safari 15.5.  ( 6 min )

One of the original ten members of the groundbreaking Chicago-based artist collective AFRICOBRA founded in 1968, Sherman Beck paints vibrant portrayals of Black family, ancestry, and community that celebrate the wonder and mysticism of everyday life. In a retrospective at Kavi Gupta, paintings made during the past five decades explore themes of cultural identity, multidimensional time and space, and the origins of life. In Ancestors, a series of untitled works from the 1990s, Beck juxtaposes traditional African masks, labeled as if in a museum display, alongside contemporary Black faces. More  ( 2 min )

A mass of unruly curls, scaly bodies, and motifs painted in red cradle the sleeping children in Lena Guberman’s ceramics. Lying in the center of round plates, the young characters are suspended in states of slumber, their joys, anxieties, and formative experiences flowing from their resting bodies. “I was an introverted child, compensating for my loneliness with dreams and fantasies. I had a feeling that there is a creature protecting me from anything bad that can happen,” the Israel-based artist tells Colossal. More  ( 2 min )

In vibrant and expressive digital portraits, Cape Town-based artist Naledi Tshegofatso Modupi captures the essence of individual style, confidence, and joy. Pools of color highlight eyelids, cheekbones, chins, or ears while continuous lines define the contours of the subjects’ features and profiles. Intricate linear patterns adorn an array of distinctive hairstyles and accessories, celebrating women’s unique and empowering stories. Focusing on the beauty of Black people, the artist says in a statement that she aims to “inspire confidence and awaken hope in those who are able to find their reflections in her pieces.” Modupi will have work in Modern Flavours with Brutal Curation in Cape Town from June 11 to July 1. More  ( 2 min )

I grew up watching Bob Ross, the prolific painting instructor who was a staple of American public access television in the 80’s and 90’s. Bob was the ultimate anti-imposter syndrome advocate. His trademark line was… We don’t make mistakes. We make happy little accidents. Bob firmly believed that anyone can learn to paint, and I’ve recently started realizing just how much his style of teaching and “do whatever works for you” attitude influenced how I teach students.  ( 1 min )

In this article, Sam Poder explores how Prisma integrates with the Jamstack and why it’s a great solution for Serverless databases in JavaScript or TypeScript-based projects.  ( 8 min )

You can now experiment and participate in an origin trial for Attribution Reporting. There are a number of available developer resources and code samples to get started. To generate summary reports in the origin trial, you'll first need to set up the aggregation service. This blog post gives an overview of those steps. If you ran an origin trial with this API in 2021, follow the migration guide to prepare for the latest origin trial. # Key terms If you haven't already, we recommend you read the overview of Attribution Reporting and more about summary reports before learning about the aggregation service set up. A summary report is a compiled output for the Attribution Reporting API, which aggregates information about a group of users. Summary reports offer detailed conversion data, such as…  ( 2 min )

May is over already which means the kids are now out of school, summer has begun, and work is ramping up at Luro. Here is the retelling of vibes… The little league championship 🏆 In my last vibe check I mentioned my son’s little league experience and how he and his teammates talked about the playoffs, but I wasn’t sure if they existed or not. Well… the playoffs were real! A single elimination playoff bracket. Eight teams enter, one team leaves… Otis’s team, the Athletics, squeaked their way through to the finals and ended up winning the Northwest Little League championship. 🎉 A happy, unexpected end to our first full season of baseball. Seeing the growth of every kid on every team over the course of a season was a treat. At the beginning of the season no one can pitch and it’s a walk-a-…  ( 5 min )

There are three ideal properties you want from a good naming system: Secure. The name reliably points to what it is supposed to, and not to an imposter. Decentralized. there is no central authority in the naming system that can fail, or be corrupted.

The Chromium team is planning on phasing out Manifest V2, its current set of extension APIs, in favor of Manifest V3. involves giving extensions less access to page contents. Instead, extensions use new APIs that involve giving the browser simple instructions for page modification. The browser performs those instructions using its own logic; extensions themselves can’t access page contents.Manifest V3 This represents a tremendous trade-off: extensions need to be trusted less, but are also less capable. The implications for content blockers (ad-blockers) caused significant backlash. Mozilla plans on adopting Manifest V3 in Firefox with additional APIs to re-introduce the lost functionality. Discourse on the topic has been polarized, full of oversimplification, and devoid of nuance.note 1 M…  ( 8 min )

Everybody seems to disagree with everybody You don’t need to look far on web dev social media to find somebody lecturing everybody and nobody about how you should do web development. Hell, I’ve been guilty of that myself. You should use this or that framework. Or, you should not use this or that framework and instead use a cognitive framework like Model-View-Controller with ‘vanilla’ web components. No, no, no Functional Reactive is where it’s at. You should be writing code test-first and unit test everything. Or, you should go light on the unit tests and focus instead on integration tests. Or, end-to-end tests. Just test the shit out of the actual running app. Or, you should use this different kind of unit test which doesn’t look anything like that other kind of unit test. Those aren’t in…  ( 21 min )

Ukrainian artist Diana Yevtukh draws inspiration from her surroundings by carefully situating cornucopian floral arrangements made of thread in the hollows of trees.  Base in Lviv, her work has assumed more urgency since the invasion of her home country by Russian forces earlier this year, and pieces like “Why did they do that to us” draw on her background in photography and design to spread the crucial message that Ukraine remains under threat. The artist’s meticulous needlework pieces feature a medley of vibrant flowers like poppies, daisies, and sunflowers, which nestle into the surfaces and appear to effervesce from within. More  ( 2 min )

There’s all kinds of ways to do that. Some more advisable and better-suited for certain situations than others, of course. We could do it directly in HTML: <pWe go from one line...<br<brdown a couple more.</p But that’s … Please Give Me Some Space originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 2 min )

This week, we’ve looked at how to format numbers into strings, and how to format numbers as currency. Today, we’re going to wrap things up by looking at a simple trick for making big numbers easier to read in your code with the numeric separator. Let’s imagine you have a really big number, like this. let num = 1234567890987654321; Because it’s a number and not a string, you can’t add commas (or dots, depending on where you live) as “thousands” indicators.  ( 1 min )

This is the first part of this article, written especially for typeface designers and typographers. See how typefaces work, how to test them, and other broader typographic issues.  ( 15 min )

In intricately cut collages by Ontario-based artist Christine Kim, flowers, foliage, and crown-like adornments encompass anonymous portraits. Painted floral motifs on carefully torn pieces of paper paired with slats of wood appear like lath exposed beneath ornate wallpaper, providing a backdrop for the elegant silhouettes. The elaborate designs of the figures’ headdresses suggest wrought iron with delicate strands of plants or ribbon partially obscuring their faces. In her series Paper Thin, Kim explores myriad techniques for working with the ubiquitous material. More  ( 2 min )

In London-based artist Rosalind Hobley’s expressive cyanotypes, flowers assume a portrait-like quality through varied textures and supple shapes. In her Still Life series, a cast of dahlias, anemones, roses, and peonies sit like regal subjects. Originally trained in figurative sculpture, she uses light and shade to accentuate form and gesture. “I aim for my prints to have the weight and presence of a piece of sculpture,” she tells Colossal. Cyanotype is an early form of photography, first invented in 1842, named for the monochromatic rich blue hue of its prints. More  ( 2 min )

Yesterday, we looked at how to create a formatted string from a number with the Intl.NumberFormat API. Today, we’re going to learn how to use that same API to format currency. Let’s dig in! (If you haven’t yet, go read yesterday’s article first or this one won’t make any sense.) The options parameter on the Intl.NumberFormat() constructor The new Intl.NumberFormat() constructor accepts a second optional argument: an object of options.  ( 2 min )

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A three.js Competition * Customizing Color Fonts on the Web * Tetra * Can I Devtools? The post Collective #714 appeared first on Codrops.  ( 5 min )

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My reading corner. This post is the final entry of three in a series where I go over what I learned from the user research I’ve been doing for Colophon Cards. The first was about markdown. The second was about the various different kinds of notetaking. It all began with blogging As I’ve mentioned earlier in this series, I’ve been blogging for almost two decades. What I didn’t mention was that I was a true believer in ‘Blogging’. —So, you believed in having a personal website, what of it? No, you see, at the time blogging was supposed to be so much more than that. I truly believed that it heralded the future of collaboration, communications, publishing, and intellectual discourse. I believed that the future of social media was an interconnected web of personal blogs. I believed that the f…  ( 30 min )

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a group chat app. You will build a backend app using Node.js that will make group chats, authorize chat participants, and maintain sessions for them.  ( 15 min )

In the multi-media works of artist David Cass, memories and tokens of bygone eras are assembled into compositions that evoke both nostalgia for the past and serve as a reminder of fluctuations in nature due to a changing climate. Cass collects a variety of items like matchboxes, tins, and old letters from flea markets, especially small containers that are associated with safekeeping. In some pieces, he accumulates small boxes into larger vessels like cabinet drawers, while in others, the item itself serves as the canvas for original paintings that respond to each individual surface. 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 13th Epson International Pano Awards More  ( 4 min )

Stop-motion animator omozoc (previously) has a knack for making complex and labor-intensive processes look remarkably effortless. In a new series called Stop Motion Woodworking, planks of wood are sliced with kitchen knives, cookie cutters carve mortise holes like dough, and a bench scraper shapes tenons for the joints with the smoothness of a blade through a stick of butter. Satisfying chopping and slicing sounds accompany the construction of a small stool that is just the right size to hold a milk crate, which features in its own tutorial video. More  ( 2 min )

In December 2020, a remarkable scene unfolded on the side of a building in the neighborhood of Jussieu in Versailles, France. Larger-than-life ladybug legs scurry along a stem, violet flowers blossom, and ornate butterflies perch on delicate petals. Over the course of six days, the French street artist Mantra completed the painting “Là où fleurit l’émerveillement,” which translates to “where wonder flourishes,” using rollers and brushes to apply acrylic painting to the multistory residential building. More  ( 2 min )

Block patterns, also frequently referred to as sections, were introduced in WordPress 5.5 to allow users to build and share predefined block layouts in the pattern directory. The directory is the home of a wide range of … How to Create Block Theme Patterns in WordPress 6.0 originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 13 min )

Nolan Lawson sparked some discussion when he described a noticeable shift away from single-page applications (SPAs): Hip new frameworks like Astro, Qwik, and Elder.js are touting their MPA [multi-page application] with “0kB JavaScript by default.” … SPAs, Shared Element Transitions, and Re-Evaluating Technology originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter.  ( 3 min )

The browser-native Intl API was designed to help developer internationalize their content more easily. Today, we’re going to be looking at the Intl.NumberFormat() constructor, which can be used to format numbers. Let’s dig in! Formatting a number into a string Let’s imagine you have a big number, like this. let num = 1234567890987654321; To display it in the UI, you want to convert it to a formatted string with thousands separators so that it’s easier to read.  ( 2 min )

A new hand-picked selection of fresh websites for your inspiration. The post Inspirational Websites Roundup #38 appeared first on Codrops.  ( 3 min )

A coding session where you'll learn how to recreate the infinite image slider seen on tismes.com using Three.js. The post Coding an Infinite Slider using Texture Recursion with Three.js appeared first on Codrops.  ( 3 min )

In this article, Ken Harker explains what third-party resource requests really are and which common optimization strategies can help reduce the impact on the user experience. By carefully considering how third-party requests will fit into your website during the design stage, you’ll be able to avoid the most significant negative impacts.  ( 15 min )

Only two years ago, Canterbury, U.K.-based artist Oliver Chalk began creating bold, geometric vessels out of wood. Having worked previously with fabric to design and produce large-scale installations for events, his interest in experimentation with new materials and techniques led to working with found timber. Carving detailed forms from the hulks of trees found in the local countryside of Kent, the artist considers the practice of turning and whittling sculptures to be a means of communication and an expression of self through symmetrical shapes and striations. More  ( 2 min )

Berlin-based artist Isabel Reitemeyer is known for making uncanny collages that splice images of animals and bodies into humorously enigmatic compositions. In her recent series, songbirds with guinea pig heads perch on twigs, horses with enormous bunny ears stand in fields, and a retriever looks out at us from the body of a chicken. The assemblages, which are often small in scale and made from found photographs and cutouts, are deftly aligned so that the outlines of the animals fit together seamlessly. More  ( 2 min )

WebKit is the purring engine of Safari, it’s true, but it has numerous ports and many contributors.  ( 1 min )

The Microsoft and Stripe developer keynotes were both examples of the rise of Thin Platforms  ( 11 min )

This week, we’re going to dig into some cool stuff you can do with numbers and strings. But… the weather’s been really nice where I am, so I decided to run a surprise “almost summer sale.” Today through the weekend, you can take 30 percent off all of my courses, ebooks, and bundles with the code ALMOSTSUMMER at checkout. Here’s the thing, though: if you live in the Southern Hemisphere, you’re headed into winter.  ( 1 min )

I create through color, type, form and of course: love.  ( 3 min )