John James Jacoby:
I recently noticed that animations in Safari were stuttering pretty badly on my M1 powered 2020 MacBook Air, and dove in to figure out why.
The why:
This wasn’t a bug. This was a feature.… https://css-tricks.com/low-framerate-in-safari-on-m1-mac/
I saw Bartosz Ciechanowski’s “Curves and Surfaces” going around the other day and was like, oh hey, this is the same fella that did that other amazingly interactive blog post on the Internal Combustion Engine the other day. I … https://css-tricks.com/bartosz-ciechanowskis-interactive-blog-posts/
I’d like to tell you something not to do to make your website better. Don’t add any third-party scripts to your site.
That may sound extreme, but at one time it would’ve been common sense. On today’s … https://css-tricks.com/aint-no-party-like-a-third-party/
A few years ago, there was this French book publisher. They specialize in technical books and published an author who wrote a book about CSS3, HTML5 and jQuery. The final version, however, a glaring typo on the cover where “HTML5” … https://css-tricks.com/test-your-site-with-real-users/
Some ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ star rating systems aren’t always exactly even stars. Say you want to support rating something 2.25 stars. To do that you could “fill” the shape of the stars partially. I like this idea by Samuel Kraft. The tricky … https://css-tricks.com/fractional-svg-stars-with-css/
Websites change. Healthy codebases are constantly being updated. Legacy code dies when it eventually goes down with the ship. Recognizing that my code is transient allows me to be more practical about my code and what guides my decision-making as … https://css-tricks.com/embrace-your-codes-transience/
(This is a sponsored post.) Videos appeal to humans in a way no other form of the content does. A video includes motion, music, still images, text, speech, and a few other elements, all of which combine to deliver … https://css-tricks.com/streaming-optimized-videos-from-aws-s3-in-minutes/
I think if you’re a DevOps person in any capacity, the utility of Docker is very clear. Your things run in containers that are identical everywhere. Assuming Docker is working/running, the code will execute in a reliably consistent way whether … https://css-tricks.com/dock-life-using-docker-for-all-the-things/
What is one thing people can do to make their website better?
Exactly what you want to build!
Ask yourself:
What drew you to development in the beginning?Is there an experimental API that you’ve been wanting to try out?… https://css-tricks.com/exactly-what-you-want/
In nature, no two things are ever the same. Life is imperfect, unpredictable, and beautiful. We can walk through the same forest every day and see differently colored leaves. We can look up at the clouds every minute and watch … https://css-tricks.com/embrace-the-unpredictable/