Combining Houdini APIs
I've written about Houdini before and how awesome it is. The articles I've written are: CSS Houdini: Present and Future of CSS CSS Houdini: Properties & Values CSS Houdini: CSS Typed Object...
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Additional updates for my Gulp build scripts
I finally decided to update my build to work with Gulp 4.x instead of 3. I'm familiar with gulp.series and gulp.parallel changes that are necessary for the build file to work in the new format. What I...
Compiling Chromium From Source
Note: This post discusses the compilation process in a Macintosh. Instructions for other operating systems can be found at Get the code A few months ago Quora started posting questions about the...
Further thoughts on performance
In the time I've been researching performance I've become even more convinced that it's not just an issue with Javascript, CSS, images, HTML or what framework you're using, although any one of those...
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...