Monthly Digest May/June 2020
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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
andreadonly
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!
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