My most recent talk about Web Components

A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)

Back in January 2020, Ben Holmes set out to do what just about every web developer does each year: rebuild his personal site. In this article, he shares his story of how he set out to build his own build pipeline from absolute ground zero and created “Slinkity”.

Hey folks! Elad reached out to me to show me his new CSS reset project called the-new-css-reset. It’s quite interesting! I thought a neat way to share it

The New Simple and Lighter CSS Reset

I didn't realize the support for @supports determining selector support was so good! I usually think of @supports as a way to test for property: value

One of the weirdest things about software engineering is how many people hate comments. Like actually hate. There are influential people out there who say...

WebAssembly meets 16000 HTML checkboxes.

Essential metrics for a healthy site

We are going to rewrite React from scratch. Step by step. Following the architecture from the real React code but without all the…

One can have an entire career on the web and never write a single canvas.getContext('2d'), so "Why should I care about this new OffscreenCanvas thing?" is a decent question for man

Raster maps, vector maps, gaming like it's 1993

Which new framework should I learn this year? Is it time to ditch my CMS? What tools should I pick up if I want to scale my site to an audience of

Build ambitious apps with confidence. Rock and Roll with Ember Octane guides you through the building of an application and teaches you the fundamentals of Ember Octane in the process.

Free Ember.js tutorial for absolute beginners. Build a CRUD application from step by step with the latest Ember.js Octane.

What’s better, where, and for whom.

Automatically finds jQuery methods from existing projects and generates vanilla js alternatives. - GitHub - sachinchoolur/replace-jquery: Automatically finds jQuery methods from existing projects a...

An absurdly small jQuery alternative for modern browsers. - GitHub - fabiospampinato/cash: An absurdly small jQuery alternative for modern browsers.

The README for Cash is straightforward: Cash is an absurdly small jQuery alternative for modern browsers (IE11+) that provides jQuery-style syntax for

Something happened earlier this year where I got on a run making checkbox animations and just couldn’t stop.

The official front-end framework for building experiences that fit seamlessly into Microsoft 365.

If the web accessibility community were to somehow collectively agree on a single rallying cry, it could easily be “use native, semantic HTML elements.” This, like most things in accessibility, is an oversimplification, but it is a helpful one. As 2019 draws to a close, many of the popular component libraries (see: Material UI and …

Part 1: How to Escape the 7th Circle of Hell

There’s been a lot of buzz around the “no code” movement and shifts like SaaS and APIs. But with developers spending less than a third of their time actually writing code, the developer experience now includes all the other stuff, maintenance, operations, testing, incidents, more. So how exactly are developers supposed to coordinate all these systems? By focusing on developer experience (and tools) that actually embraces the messy complexities of their tech stacks: rainforests, not planned gardens.

The syntax can get messy, but it does them.

The new Sanitizer API aims to build a robust processor for arbitrary strings to be safely inserted into a page. This article introduces the API, and explains its usage.