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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, Last week, I talked about how CSS is like a strange puzzle. Like a regular puzzle, when we write CSS, we need to figure out how to fit all the pieces together properly. But it’s made more complicated because each piece can change it’s size and position. Despite that, we still need everything to fit together. There are so many variables at play at any given time that it sometimes feels like we’re just hoping for the...
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, A few weeks ago, my dad and my 10-year-old son were working on a puzzle together. My dad mentioned that it was a pretty hard puzzle for a kid, and he was impressed with my son's patience with it (he isn’t always the most patient type 😆). The reason I bring this up at all is because one of the reasons that I often tell people I like CSS is because it’s like a puzzle. Just like with a real puzzle, where you do have a...
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, Another shorter email than usual this week. We’ll be back to the regular ones starting next week 🙂. 🙋♂️ What I’ve been up to this week Create a fun, quick text flip effect Not sure about the name and thumbnail that I made for this one, as the text doesn’t flip, so much as, slide in and out. I don’t know what else to call this effect, or how to make a good thumbnail to illustrate what's going on, so this is it 😆. I took...