Responsive images on Shopify with Liquid
We launched the image_tag
and image_url
filters to help with generating responsive images. Before we dive in, what do these filters do? What are…
Responsive images on Shopify with Liquid
We launched the image_tag
and image_url
filters to help with generating responsive images. Before we dive in, what do these filters do? What are…
Our web design tools are holding us back
nowadays we can build things with CSS that are impossible to create with our design tools. We have scroll-snap, we have complicated animations, we…
Layout & Grid in Design Systems
This interdisciplinary disconnect around grid’s mental model affects how teams execute grid. In a broken, unidirectional, “developer handoff” process,…
The web is good at these things, just not in the ways that designers have been accustomed to working. We'll take a look at how we got here and how…
Yet another great Utopia tool, this time for grids, but the right way: the 12 column grid itself is an illusion, or at best a fading artefact of the…
I was not aware of this new Mastodon feature, this is great! it enables users to follow other users but in only selected languages. It may be only…
Owning your content on the web should not require extensive technical knowledge or special skills. It should be just as easy as signing up for a cellphone…
Why you should never use px to set font-size in CSS
Let’s be very clear: it absolutely does matter what unit you use in your CSS. And you should avoid px
when setting font-size
wherever possible.…
Converting Your Twitter Archive to Markdown
So, your Twitter archive is far from being a safe, independent backup in case you want to delete your account or if Twitter ever dies completely.…
Ziemek Bućko
Google Needs 9× More Time To Crawl JS Than HTML
It took Google 313 hours to get to the final, seventh page of the JavaScript folder. With HTML, it took just 36 hours. That’s nearly 9 times faster.…
Sam Magura
Why We're Breaking Up with CSS-in-JS
Thanks for reading this deep dive into runtime CSS-in-JS. Like any technology, it has its pros and cons. Ultimately, it's up to you as a developer…
Nate Baldwin
Component-level Design Tokens: are they worth it?
At one point in time Spectrum had 210,180 design tokens in an 18MB JSON file. We had to reinvent “design tokens” in a way that could accommodate for…
Jon Sneyers
Jon gives a good overview of everything JPEG XL improves over other image formats. This article can be seen by some as biaised, as Jon is part of…
Your account is permanently suspended
Manuel's ban from Twitter should be a lesson for us all. If there’s something I’ve learned from this whole thing, it’s that I must be more careful…