Animating variable fonts
One of the things I find the most interesting about variable fonts is that you can animate them between different values. This post will explore how to create animations using Variable font axes, both...
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Using Variable Fonts in a WordPress theme
Variable Fonts give you a lot of flexibility while losing support for older browsers and operating systems. They reduce the number of font files required to render content and they give you options...
Using Fontface Observer in WordPress
Fontface observer (FFO) is a font loader library that allows you to control the behavior of our downloadable fonts. This post will work through how to use the script in a WordPress installation. Using...
WordPress Hooks
Hooks are a way for one piece of code to interact/modify another piece of code. In the context of WordPress, they provide means for plugins, themes, and even WordPress itself to interact with...
Adding async/defer to WordPress site
WordPress doesn't add async or defer attributes to scripts by default and there is no easy way to do it without customization. This post will discuss how to add the attributes and why it's...
PostCSS deep dive
PostCSS is an interesting tool and ecosystem. It is a CSS processor written in Javascript. What first brought my attention to PostCSS is Autoprefixer, my go-to tool for automating adding prefixes to...
My VSCode Snippets
I love Visual Studio Code for writing anything ranging from Markdown to Javascript to PHP and even some Go and C/C++. One of the things that intrigued me the most is snippets and how they work once...
SVG and CSS for cool effects with text
In recent years there has been a lot of new features that make magazine-style layouts possible and enticing for designers to use and for developers to implement. Some of these features are quite old...
Researching Array Methods
Seeing the latest HTTP 203 from Surma and Jakke I started thinking about what other things that you can do with arrays. The most frequent use of arrays in my code is to take an array of elements and...
Feature Policies
Some of these policies may be under Origin Trials or may not be available in browsers at the time the article was written. Check Chromestatus for a list of policies that are either active or under...