A new baseline for front-end development
In 2012 Rebeca Murphey wrote A baseline for front-end developers as a minimum of what people should know to work in front-end development back in the day. I went back to the article and was surprised...
Differences between CSS Custom Properties and Houdini Properties and values
CSS Custom Properties, also known as CSS Variables allow you to do awesome things. In this post, we'll explore the different types of CSS Custom properties, what they are, how they work and which one...
Understanding the CSS box model
One of the things I've always had a problem understanding is the CSS box model. I'm writing this, based on content from MDN to try and understand it better. When laying out a document, the browser...
What is a front-end developer
I'm an old school developer. The first website I made dates back to 1995 when a friend and I built our school's first website for independent study credit. The web has come a long way from those early...
New Promise methods
There have been new additions to the promise arsenal that warrants a deeper look so we're ready to use them when they are stable enough to do so. What we started with # promise.all returns a single...
Native Internationalization
Making web content work across locales, each with it's own way to display dates, time is a challenge. Most of the time, when I hear about internationalization or locale aware data manipulation I hear...
Noto Fonts: Same family, multiple languages
One of the limitations of the World Wide Web is the lack of fonts for all the world languages. Even if we were to find fonts for all the languages we want to use it's unlikely that we'll find fonts...
When is an é not an é? Working with Unicode on the web
There are times when working with non-English languages on the web can be a real problem. We'll look at what's the historical background for the issue, how different encodings have tried to solve it,...
Getting into a performance mindset
Web performance is hard. There is no one size fits all solution and the amount of work we do to make our content performant is more than what we may want to do. This post will explore the process of...
A-frame: 3D Markup
a-frame addresses a different problem space in VR and AR: Authoring WebGL is really hard. We will skip the raw WebGL version, don't want to scare readers away by talking about shaders and compiling...