How to Write a Git Commit Message
An oldie but goodie, Chris Beams writes about the secret art of writing helpful Git commit messages. Here’s why he thinks it’s so important:
If you haven’t given much thought to what makes a great Git commit message, it may be the case that you haven’t spent much time using git log and related tools. There is a vicious cycle here: because the commit history is unstructured and inconsistent, one doesn’t spend much time using or taking care of it. …
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9 Actionable Copywriting Tips for Instantly More Powerful Content
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Why would you do that in CSS?
Have you seen Lynn Fisher’s extraordinary A Single Div project? Not only are all these graphics drawn in just HTML and CSS, they are all created with (you guessed it) a single <div>.
Why would she do that? Here’s one pertinent possibility: it’s none of our business. We’re free to wonder, or even ask if it’s done respectfully enough. But does it really matter? Let’s stop short of assuming she doesn’t know what’s she’s doing, assuming it’s a twisted form of pain, or that she’s unaware of other technologies. Check out the example where she drew the official SVG logo with CSS and a single div. Woke.
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Torque Toons: American Gutenberg Meme
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How To Hook Your Visitors With A Sizzling ‘About Us’ Page Design
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Animated SVG Radial Progress Bars
Dave Rupert shows us all how to animate radial progress bars in SVG with a tiny script alongside the stroke-dasharray and stroke-dashoffset properties:
For a client project we tasked ourselves with building out one of those cool radial progress bars. In the past, we’ve used entire Canvas-based charting libraries (156k/44k gzip), but that seemed like overkill. I looked at Airbnb’s Lottie project where you export After Effects animations as JSON. This is cool for complex animations, but the dependencies seemed …
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