ByDan Knauss
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Stephanie Eckles shared the release of the a11y-color-tokens package. It “generates accessible complementary text or UI colors as Sass variables and/or CSS custom properties from your base color tokens.”
Sarah Drasner made a CSS Grid generator tool. It’s awe-inspiring and useful: you can designate rows, columns, gaps, and units. Then you can drag them to create child containers in dynamic layouts.
In this episode, Corey Maass, a freelance web developer, joins Cory Miller to discuss the intricacies of creating an impactful, user-appreciated product that makes a positive impact on customers and stands apart in a saturated industry.
Years ago, Harry Roberts wrote about “code smells” on CSS Wizardry. He has a follow-up that I really enjoyed, and can give you an idea whether you’ve got some underlying problems with your Sass/CSS.
Morten Rand-Hendriksen recently announced WP Rig, a community project supported by LinkedIn Learning, Google, XWP, and other members of the WordPress community. It’s being described as a “modern build process and progressive starter theme bundled together.” The goal is to simplify theme development and performance optimization with modern technologies. Some features include: Automated code linting to…
Nikita Prokopov says “Font size is useless” and needs to be fixed. If you’re a front-end developer or a font geek, read this. Also mentioned in Nikita’s blog post is an article from Vincent De Oliveira explaining exactly how fonts and the CSS line-height algorithm work.
Accessible Target Sizes Cheatsheet Vitaly provides practical guidelines for preventing rage taps, and rage clicks on mobile devices, including recommended target sizes for icons, links, and buttons. It also offers helpful conversion tables for translating point units to CSS pixels or Android/iOS units. OpenAI is trying to trademark “GPT.” What are your thoughts? A discussion…
