Leveraging local fonts
Note # This feature needs an Origin Trial Key for your origin. If you choose not to go for an Origin Trial then you and your users will need to enable the Font Access APIs flag (#font-access) in...
(Re)learning how to use VoiceOver
I was rereading I Used The Web For A Day Using A Screen Reader and realized that it's been a while since I last used VoiceOver (the built-in screen reader for Mac) to proof the content of my posts and...
CSS Media Queries in Javascript
Since a lot of work we do in CSS we actually do in Javascript, I thought it would be good to research how we can do media queries in JS too. There are two ways to work with media queries. The first...
Writing topic-based content
Topic-based documentation is content broken down into topics; small reusable chunks of content that can be reused in multiple documents. I try my best to write as if the document was topic-based. Some...
Linting WordPress PHP files
While I've been doing WordPress theme development I've also been working on getting PHPCS (PHP Code Sniffer) to work properly on my projects. I think I've finally got it. As usual, I was making things...
Playing with the filesystem API
There have been multiple attempts at getting a Filesystem API on the web. The one I'm referring to in this post is a Chromium-only feature available without a flag since Chrome 86, not the old-style...
Running Lighthouse Programmatically
In addition to the DevTools menu and the Chrome extension and the Lighthouse CLI, there are ways to use Lighthouse programmatically in ways that would be too time-consuming to do with the lighthouse...
CSS/JS Coverage in Chrome DevTools
Since version 59, Chrome DevTools ship with a coverage analyzer that will tell you how much of the Javascript you load is actually used on your pages. This is important because, if the code is yours,...
Passing data to WordPress template files
The template loading functions (get_header(), get_template_part(), etc.) have a new $args argument. So now you can pass an array’s of data to the templates. The idea is that we can now pass an object...
Expanding Teams and Roles in WordPress Using The Members Plugin
Built-in roles have been available in WordPress since I started working with it (at least version 2.9) if not from the very beginning... they work but they provide a limited toolset to work with. This...