Monthly Digest May/June 2020

Hello everybody,

I skipped sending the last newsletter because I spent my time reading things more important than web development. I hope you're all safe and sound!

This newsletter includes my favorite content in May and June. Enjoy!

Tom MacWright had a critical look at modern web development best practices in his article Second-guessing the modern web. I highly recommend reading it!

Lynn Fischer maintains a.singlediv.com. It's astonishing what is possible with CSS these days!

• The beauty of progressive enhancement by Manuel Matuzović
• What is Developer Experience (DX)? by Chris Coyier
• Make your PWA feel more like an app by Thomas Steiner

• kossnocorp / etiquette – a GitHub etiquette
• mourner / bullshit.js – a mission-critical enterprise JavaScript bookmarklet
• maxboeck / whimsical – a curated list of websites with an extra bit of fun.

• Copy screenshots directly to the clipboard (MacOS)
• Safe and unsafe alignment in CSS flexbox
• Prevent npm install for not supported Node.js versions
• Custom properties affect how invalid CSS declarations are handled

You can find 120 learnings in my "Today I learned" section.

• The CSS gap property
• Overflow alignment in CSS
• The useful stale-while-revalidate header
• The surprising specificity of :is in CSS
• The nullish coalescing operator in JavaScript
• Logical assignments (||=, &&=, ??=) in JavaScript
• Invalid CSS custom property values
• The :marker pseudo-element
• disabled and readonly form element attributes

You can find more #devsheets on Twitter.

Another Rachel Andrew talk; I keep repeating myself, but the content Rachel creates is unbelievable valuable – Making Things Better: Redefining the Technical Possibilities of CSS is no exception!

On the topic of the tech giants Facebook, Google and Twitter: Sacha Baron Cohen (yes, that's the Borat comedian) gave a great talk criticizing social media. It included the following quote:

Freedom of speech is not freedom of reach.

Summer is approaching, and even though we won't dance barefoot at open airs this year, Kollektiv Turmstraße's Freiflug is a nicely rolling electro song that entered my playlist several times last month.

And that's my favorite content of May and June 2020, friends! 🎉 👋

Have a great July, and stay safe!

And if you have any feedback about this newsletter, please let me know.