Overriding Font Metrics with CSS
One of the things about web fonts that may be problematic is the care we need to take when choosing a fallback font. Unless we pick fonts with similar characteristics, there will be a layout shift...
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CDS 2020: New PWA goodness arriving soon(ish)
What caught my attention from CDS2020, are these two upcoming features for PWAs. The first one is a tabbed presentation for PWAs. The idea is that new windows for the application will open as new tabs...
Ideas and Projects for 2021
I want to target three languages and tools for learning in 2021: Vue, Go, and Electron. These projects are the ones I've thought about so far. I may have additional ones come up as the year...
CDS 2020: Moving to Modern Javascript
Handling both current and older browsers Javascript has gotten more complicated since Javascript adopted an annual release schedule. We are not talking about the stark difference between ES2015/ES6...
CDS 2020: New CSS properties for performance
There are two new CSS properties that may help with the layout shift core vitals issue. The content-visibility property allows us to tell the browser when to render an element. The “magic” value here...
Bazel Build System: Overall Notes and Observations
Bazel is hard to get to work but it's really interesting to work with once you get started. Like Ant and other build systems I've worked with before they use their own terminology and their own...
Bazel Build System: Backend code, even more choices
Just like with the frontend, the backend gives you multiple choices of languages and feature sets for working with Bazel. C/C++, Go and Rust are the three languages that I tested generating WASM code...
Bazel build system: Frontend Styling
Bazel presents multiple choices for building your site or app's styles. I've taken three of these choices for a deeper look. The first one, working with Less and Stylus, shows how to work with NPM...
Bazel build system: Typescript and Node.js
In the last post we looked at Bazel, what it is, installation on macOS using homebrew, and a Bazel-based project's basic configuration. This post will look at using Bazel to run Typescript and Node.js...
First Look: Bazel build system
Google has an interesting build system for their internal applications and projects called Blaze. Bazel is the open-source version of that project. According to its documentation, Bazel offers the...