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Brecht De Ruyte - Advanced Form Control Styling With Selectmenu And Anchoring API

No doubt you’ve had to style a select menu before. And when you do, you often have had to reach far down in your CSS arsenal of tricks or rely on JavaScript to get anything near the level of customi

Techniques , API , coding , Css , ui

Preethi Sam - In Search Of The Ideal Privacy Icon

I’ve been on the lookout for a privacy icon and thought I’d bring you along that journey. This project I’ve been working on calls for one, but, honestly, nothing really screams “this means privacy”

Icons , Design , ui

Michelle Barker - Reducing The Web’s Carbon Footprint: Optimizing Social Media Embeds

The COP26 climate conference has thrown into a sharp light the importance of reducing carbon emissions in every area of our lives. Everyone can play a role in this, including those of us working on

performance , optimization , User Interaction , ui

Frederick O’Brien - Web Design Done Well: Perfectly Pointless

Amid the KPIs and e-commerce and seemingly endless analytics, there are still plenty of sites embracing frivolity. Doesn’t it take the edge off to just have a little fun? The web can feel like a ve

Inspiration , User Experience , Content Strategy , Design

Mikołaj Dobrucki - Penpot’s CSS Grid Layout: Designing With Superpowers

This article has been kindly supported by our dear friends at Penpot whose mission is to provide an open-source and open-standards platform to bring collaboration between designers and developers

workflow , Graphics , Tools , Apps , ui

Paul Scanlon - How To Create Dynamic Donut Charts With TailwindCSS And React

CSS is amazing — I’m regularly surprised at how far it has come in the years I’ve been using it (~2005 – present). One such surprise came when I noticed this tweet by Shruti Balasa which demonstrate

react , Techniques , Css , svg

Ramona Schwering - Long Live The Test Pyramid

A dear colleague of mine, Jan Philip Pietrczyk, once commented on the developer’s responsibility for writing functional code: “Our daily work [...] ends up in the hands of people who trust us no

Techniques , Tools , testing

Atila Fassina - What Does AI Really Mean?

In 2024, Artificial Intelligence (AI) hit the limelight with major advancements. The problem with reaching common knowledge and so much public attention so quickly is that the term becomes ambiguous

Guides , AI , User Interaction

Zara Cooper - How To Build A Group Chat App With Vanilla JS, Twilio And Node.js

Chat is becoming an increasingly popular communication medium in both business and social contexts. Businesses use chat for customer and employee intra-company communication like with Slack, Microso

node.js , API , Apps , Javascript

Louis Lazaris - Interactive Learning Tools For Front-End Developers

Because this industry moves so quickly, learning new skills is a regular thing for most of us. Over the last little while, I’ve been able to collect links to several interactive coding tools and app

Round-Ups , Css , Javascript

Patrick Brosset - What’s New With DevTools: Cross-Browser Edition

Browser developer tools keep evolving, with new and improved features added all the time. It’s hard to keep track, especially when using more than one browser. With that much on offer, it is not sur

devtools , Tools , testing , debugging , Browsers

Leonardo Losoviz - Implications Of WordPress Joining The Block Protocol

Matt Mullenweg (creator of WordPress) has expressed interest in having the WordPress editor comply with the Block Protocol, a recently-released specification which aims to have “blocks” be portable

wordpress , workflow , Techniques , Tools , Apps

Juan Diego Rodríguez - The End Of The Free Tier

I love free tiers, and I am not the only one. Everyone loves free things — they’re the best thing in life, after all. But maybe we have grown too accustomed to them, to the extent that a service swi

Marketing , Pricing , Product Strategy , Business

Vitaly Friedman - It’s Here! “Understanding Privacy,” A New Smashing Book Is Shipping Now

What is privacy? What exactly does it mean? How do we consider, manage and maintain privacy? And how dow do we design and build experiences that have privacy at their heart? That’s exactly what Unde

Privacy , Smashing Books