Working with scripts directly in Gulp
This is an interesting trick to help consolidate assets and reduce the number of network requests you need to make. Let's assume that your project depends on one big library like jQuery or Backbone to...
New CSS media queries
There is more to writing defensive CSS than what I thought. This post will look at feature queries (the @supports at rule) and CSS support for OS-level accessibility rules. Feature queries # Before...
Exploring Typescript (3): Generics and DOM manipulation
There are a couple of additional items that I though were important enough to cover: generics and DOM manipulation. Generics # One of the things I find most interesting about Typescript is the idea of...
Exploring Typescript(2): The Language
In the previous post we looked the tools we need to get Typescript transformed into Javascript to use in the browser. In this post we'll take a first look at the language itself and will discuss some...
Exploring Typescript: Setting up Typescript
Typescript is an interesting language. It's a typed superset of Javascript that you can compile to usable Javascript, either ES5 or later yearly versions of the language. Because it's not straight...
Creating a login system for web apps
I'm working on a starter application template to get me started when working on prototyping ideas. One of the things that I'm most interested on is how to create a login system for Express-based...
Updating software tools: Homebrew, Ruby Gems and NVM-based Node
Doing software updates outside of what Apple offers with macOS is tedious and easy to forget. I also have at least three different systems to update: Homebrew, Ruby Gems and Node.js installed with...
Permissions policy and API
The Permissions API gives use the ability to request permission from the user to use a given web API. This is an update of the 2020 posts Feature Policies and Working with Feature Policies in...
Revisiting CSS Custom Properties
CSS variables are awesome, particularly when implemented using the @property at-rule but we need to remember that there can be too much of a good thing. This post will talk about how to define custom...
Centering things with CSS
Centering content, particularly vertical centering, has always been very challenging to me. The old way # These are some techniques to center content using CSS before Flexbox. Aligning text # Aligning...