Coding
Retrospective on Fela
Over the years, I have tweeted about Fela a few times. And as I am about to leave N26 and behind me the decisions I made, I want to properly reflect on the choice of going with Read more…
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“I Don’t Know”
I’ve learned to be more comfortable not knowing. “I don’t know”, comes easier now. “I don’t know anything about that.” It’s okay. It feels good to say. Whether it’s service workers, Houdini, shadow DOM, web Read more…
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Three Ways to Distinguish a Site From the Norm
In an age where so much web design is already neat, clean, and simple, I can think of three ways to distinguish your site from the norm: Stunning visuals that cannot be created in UI Read more…
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What Makes CSS Hard To Master
Last week, Emma Bostian tweeted about how she was sick of “[CSS]’s shit.” She later apologised, but her wording suggests she still thinks it isn’t lack of knowledge. It’s fairly common for software engineers to complain about Read more…
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Autocomplete: require _some_ value to be selected?
I’m using a pretty straightforward jQueryUI autocomplete. The only slightly complicated thing is that I have a set list of choices, and the user must enter something from the list. I’m using a JSON array Read more…
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Slow Movement
We asked web builders that we admire the same question: What is one thing you learned about building websites this year? Here’s what they told us. We would like to thank our ❥ sponsor Automattic Read more…
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Learning to Simplify
We asked web builders that we admire the same question: What is one thing you learned about building websites this year? Here’s what they told us. We would like to thank our ❥ sponsor Automattic Read more…
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How to Use the Locomotive Scroll for all Kinds of Scrolling Effects
Learn Development at Frontend Masters I was recently looking for a way to perform scrolling effects on a project and I stumbled on the Locomotive Scroll library. It lets you perform a variety of scrolling Read more…
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Hell Yes! CSS!
programming zines by Julia Evans (@b0rk) I wrote this zine because, for most of the last 15 years, I found CSS confusing and upsetting (not “hell yes!” at all!). Even CSS changes that I felt Read more…
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Animate In Elements On Scroll Using jQuery And CSS3
A tiny and simple-to-use AOS (Animate On Scroll) script that triggers slide in and fade in animations on elements when scrolling towards them. Demo Download source