Uh, what’s @property? It’s a new CSS feature! It gives you superpowers. No joke, there is stuff that @property can do that unlocks things in CSS we’ve never been able to do before. While everything about @property is exciting, perhaps …
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How to Set Up Your WFH Space
The pandemic changed the way we work. Office doors closed and workers shifted to working from home. The truth is, even when the pandemic is over, many people will continue working out of their homes. For this reason, having a …
The union vote that could change Amazon forever
Last week, President Joe Biden had a message for Amazon: I’m watching. “Workers in Alabama — and all across America — are voting on whether to organize a union in their workplace,” he tweeted, along with an accompanying video. “It’s …
Amazon Fire TV expands live TV features, adds Alexa support for live content
Amazon is rolling out a new experience for its Fire TV platform that puts more focus on subscription-free streaming and other live content. The company today announced several new services are being integrated into its suite of Live features, including …
A Bare-Bones Approach to Versatile and Reusable Skeleton Loaders
UI components like spinners and skeleton loaders make waiting for a page load less frustrating and might even affect how loading times are perceived when used correctly. They won’t completely prevent users from abandoning the website, but they might encourage …
Microsoft debuts its AR/VR meetings platform Mesh
Today, at a special AR/VR focused event held inside its virtual reality community platform Altspace, Microsoft showcased a new product aiming to provide their AR HoloLens platform and VR Windows Mixed Reality platform with a shared platform for meetings. The …
The Best Font Loading Strategies and How to Execute Them
Zach Leatherman wrote up a comprehensive list of font loading strategies that have been widely shared in the web development field. I took a look at this list before, but got so scared (and confused), that I decided not to …
How YouTube swallowed the world
YouTube has more than 2 billion users. It generates $20 billion a year. But those numbers don’t begin to explain the size and impact of the world’s biggest video site. So let’s try this: YouTube is so big that you …
Fetching Data from a Third-party API with Vue.js and Axios
More often than not, when building your JavaScript application, you’ll want to fetch data from a remote source or consume an API. There’s lots of cool stuff that can be done with data from a range of publicly available APIs. …