Monthly Archives: August 2018

This is an experiment to see how far into an interactive experience I can get using only CSS. What better project to attempt than a game? Battleship seemed like a good challenge and a step up from the CSS games I’ve seen so far because it has the complexity of multiple areas that have to interact with two players.

Wanna see the complete game?

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Oh, you wanna learn how it works? Let’s dig in.

I could …

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monday.com promotes effortless collaboration and transparency, it’s “cheetah fast,” it displays status in as many as 20 different colors, and its status board can be customized to fit your needs …

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What a great technological analogy by Mandy Michael. A reminder that TypeScript…

makes use of static typing so, for example, you can give your variables a type when you write your code and then TypeScript checks the types at compile time and will throw an error if the variable is given a value of a different type.

In other words, you have a variable age that you declare to be a number, the value for age has to stay …

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My pal Lindsay Grizzard wrote about creating a CSS system that works across an organization and all of the things to keep in mind when starting a new project:

Getting other developers and designers to use the standardized rules is essential. When starting a project, get developers onboard with your CSS, JS and even HTML conventions from the start. Meet early and often to discuss every library, framework, mental model, and gem you are interested in using and take feedback …

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CSS scroll snapping allows you to lock the viewport to certain elements or locations after a user has finished scrolling. It’s great for building interactions like this one:

Live Demo
Browser support and basic usage

Browser support for CSS scroll snapping has improved significantly since it was introduced in 2016, with Google Chrome (69+), Firefox, Edge, and Safari all supporting some version of it.

Scroll snapping is used by setting the scroll-snap-type property on a container element and the …

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