Friday Issue Nr.118

2024-07-05

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How to choose JavaScript Runtime, Event Loop lag story, For CSS loads of how-to articles about colours, calculations, Container Queries, Cap Unit and unique 3D experiment. Also, one million checkboxes and Penpot are in this week's collection.

JavaScript News

JavaScript features 2024

Nicholas C. Zakas about Node.js, Deno and Bun.

https://newsletter.humanwhocodes.com/posts/human-who-codes-newsletter-node-js-deno-and-bun

Event Loop Lag

Fascinating story about performance issues and how it was fixed.

https://trigger.dev/blog/event-loop-lag

Use a framework to build React Native apps

https://reactnative.dev/blog/2024/06/25/use-a-framework-to-build-react-native-apps

Qwik 2.0 is coming soon

https://www.builder.io/blog/qwik-2-coming-soon

HTML & CSS News

How to calculate a contrast colours in CSS

CSS will probably have contrast-color() function in a few years, but is there something we can use already?

https://lea.verou.me/blog/2024/contrast-color/

How to compute cos(25deg) in CSS

https://www.bram.us/2024/07/01/computing-cos25deg-in-css/

How to use Container Queries with fallback (now)

https://web.dev/blog/how-to-use-container-queries-now

Morphing Arbitrary Paths in SVG

https://minus-ze.ro/posts/morphing-arbitrary-paths-in-svg/

While on paths and animations, there is an interesting example of Pure CSS Circular Text

https://frontendmasters.com/blog/pure-css-circular-text-without-requiring-a-monospace-font/

Amazing 3D CSS using scroll()

https://codepen.io/ivorjetski/pen/VwOraXv

Cap Unit example

https://ishadeed.com/article/css-cap-unit/

Is the CH unit harmful?

https://clagnut.com/blog/2432/

Mixed News

How people with disabilities use the web

https://www.w3.org/WAI/people-use-web/

Penpot

Looks like Figma is not the only choice for designing things.

https://penpot.app/

One Million Checkboxes

This reminds me of the early days of the internet and that website with a million pixels

https://onemillioncheckboxes.com/

Oh, that One Million Dollar homepage is still there, too 🙂

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

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Andris Švarcs

Somehow, I've survived over 15 years as a web developer without losing my interest in the craft. Quite the opposite, with so many great improvements in the Web standards, what was nearly impossible now is easy to make.

My career has been a wild ride through small agencies and big corporations, building everything from finance apps to health dashboards.

I'm that annoying person who needs to understand products beyond just slinging code. I ask questions like 'Why is this feature important?' and 'How will this improve the customer journey?' – you know, the kind of questions that make project managers reach for the pint aspirin. This curiosity has led me down the rabbit holes of design, accessibility, and SEO. Because apparently, making websites pretty, usable, and findable wasn't challenging enough on its own.

P.S. If this bio sounds too polished, blame my evil AI twin. I'm still working on teaching it sarcasm.

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