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This resonated with me:

It’s ironic to me that the numeronym “a11y” lacks accessibility: it’s not immediately decipherable by humans who aren’t “in the club”; and, in some fonts, it’s visually indistinguishable from the word “ally” (with lowercase L’s), which can foil searches for clarity.

— Eric Meyer (@meyerweb) November 5, 2018

Because I bet it took me a year after seeing that acronym (“numeronym”, I guess) for the first time to know that was just a stand-in for the …

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In the grand tradition of every single poll question I’ve ever posted, the poll below has a has a fundamental flaw. In this case, there is no option between “In the last month” and “Never” but, alas, the results are interesting:

When’s the last time you SFTP’d (or the equiv) into a server and changed a file directly?

— Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier) October 9, 2018

What I was trying to get at with this poll is how many people do …

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One thing JavaScript template literals are great at is little blocks of HTML. Like:

// Probably from some API or whatever
const data = {
title: "Title",
content: "Content"
};

const some_html = `

`;

But that’s still just a string. It’s not ready to append to the DOM just yet. And what if we need references to those elements inside somehow?

We’ve written about a couple of libraries that are in this vein: lit-html…

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