The Anatomy of Accessible Forms: Best Practices | Deque - This is simple and vital Accessibility information. I love building forms and I know that the best way to build them is not to be too clever. Use these best practices to ensure everyone can interact with your forms.
Managing Flow and Rhythm with CSS Custom Properties - I like this technique demonstrated by Andy Bell to use CSS Custom Properties to dynamically control vertical rhythm in a page. Custom Properties are so useful.
Bringing new CSS techniques to production - Si digital - With @supports, grid, flex and CSS Custom Properties, we’re in a better place than ever before to deliver powerful and resilient websites that work for everybody.
How to Build a Filtering Component in Pure CSS - One of the things I love about CSS is how powerful it can be once you get into negation selectors, sibling selectors and attribute selectors.
The 80/20 Guide to JavaScript Arrays - I’ve been getting more involved in the JS side of things at work recently and I’m taking myself back to school a bit to try and learn the fundamentals properly. This is a good piece on Arrays, something I’ve historically struggled to get my head around.
Chromium and the browser monoculture problem - Chromium is dominating, and whilst I’ll admit that it’s better than the old days of the browser wars where IE came out as the dominant player, I don’t like where it’s going.
WyeWorks | Why we have engineers run interviews instead of HR - This is something we’ve been doing for a while at Logikcull - engineers run the engineering interviews and make the decisions as to who we hire and who we don’t. I think it works really well.
Netlify Analytics | Netlify - Netlify, the amazingly simple serverless platform on which this site is deployed, launched an analytics service this week. Using only the logs, there’s no need for javascript tracking of users, cookies, etc. Analytics with zero impact on the user.