design tips

For some reason, I’ve lately been thinking a lot about what it takes to break into the web design industry and learn CSS. I reckon it has something to do with Keith Grant’s post earlier this month on a CSS mental model where he talks about a “common core for CSS”:

We need common core tricks like this for CSS. Not “tricks” in the old sense (like how to fake a gradient border), but mental patterns: ways to frame the

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Many of us follow @horse_js on Twitter. Twenty-one thousand of us, to be exact. That horse loves stirring up mischief by taking people’s statements out of context. It happened to me a few times and almost got me in trouble.

I wonder how many people hate CSS because their experience with it

— Horse JS (@horse_js) September 23, 2018

I wonder how many people hate CSS because their experience with it is overriding bootstrap.

In completely unrelated news, guess what

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Let’s say there is a divide happening in front-end development. I feel it, but it’s not just in my bones. Based on an awful lot of written developer sentiment, interviews Dave Rupert and I have done on ShopTalk, and in-person discussion, it’s, as they say… a thing.

The divide is between people who self-identify as a (or have the job title of) front-end developer, yet have divergent skill sets.

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I’ve very excited to have this feature released for CodePen. It’s very progressive enhancement friendly in the sense that you can take any <pre> block of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (or any combination of them) and enhance it into an embed, meaning you can see the rendered output. It also lets you pass in stuff like external resources, making it a great choice for, say, documentation sites or the like.

Here’s an example right here:

<div id="root"</div

@import url("https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Montserrat:400,400i,700");

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Here’s a wonderful post by Nicolas Chevobbe on what the Firefox DevTools team was up to last year. What strikes me is how many improvements they shipped — from big visual design improvements to tiny usability fixes that help us make sure our code works as we expect it to in the console.

There are lots of interesting hints here about the future of Firefox DevTools, too. For example, tighter integrations with MDN and, as Nicolas mentions in that post, … Read article

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