Weekly newsletter, where I talk about tangentially-related front-end development topics and share what I've been up to in the last week, plus any cool/fun/interesting/useful links I come across as well.
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Weekly newsletter, where I talk about tangentially-related front-end development topics and share what I've been up to in the last week, plus any cool/fun/interesting/useful links I come across as well.
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, One big problem with features like Grid and Flexbox (and maybe soon Masonry) is that we can move elements around. This might sound like a feature, but in reality, it can cause many issues because even something as simple as flex-direction: row reverse can muck with tab order. There are times where it can potentially be a good idea to re-order things with CSS (say, when you want an image above a title of a card, but in...
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Very quickly, before we get into the topics of this week's newsletter, the State of Devs survey is going to be closing shortly. The survey is for devs, but asks about who we are, rather than what we know. As with all the "State of..." surveys, the more people who take it, the more representative the results are, so if you have a few minutes, it'd be great if you could take the time to take it. Hello Reader, So, Figma had a big event...
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, Have you ever found yourself staring at some CSS that you were sure should work, but it wasn’t doing what you wanted? If so, welcome to the club 😂. These days, for me, it’s less about not understanding a specific behavior and more about making dumb mistakes, but there are times when it still catches me off guard as well. At this stage, most of the time I can reason my way out of the problem I’m facing, but with years...