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In praise of off-screen menus

Jason Bradberry challenges the ideals of displaying your entire navigation as a cluster of links and presents a case for exploring off-screen menus where the context is right for it.

Design

A (more) Modern CSS Reset

I wrote “A Modern CSS Reset” almost 4 years ago and, yeh, it’s not aged overly well. I spotted it being linked up again a few days ago and thought it’s probably a good idea to publish an updated version.

CSS

Tips on extensible and maintainable components

Abbey Perini talks about how yes, there is a code angle to maintainable and extensible components, but it's also useful to appreciate the wider context, historical problems and the long term impact of opinions in your code.

Advice

Styling Tables the Modern CSS Way

Modern CSS makes styling HTML tables in a considered, responsive nature a breeze. Michelle Barker breaks it all down for you in this deep dive.

CSS

Real-world uses of TypeScript’s utility types

Sam Rose walks us through some real-world usage of TypeScript’s utility types in their day job’s open source codebase to help those new to the language get to grips with this key capability.

TypeScript

If it works, it's right

I read a really interesting article on CSS layout that I don’t really agree with, so I thought I’d lay out some advice related to that.

Advice

A (more) Modern CSS Reset

I wrote “A Modern CSS Reset” almost 4 years ago and, yeh, it’s not aged overly well. I spotted it being linked up again a few days ago and thought it’s probably a good idea to publish an updated version.

CSS

Styling Tables the Modern CSS Way

Modern CSS makes styling HTML tables in a considered, responsive nature a breeze. Michelle Barker breaks it all down for you in this deep dive.

CSS

CUBE CSS

A CSS methodology oriented towards simplicity and consistency with a heavy dosage of pragmatism.

CSS

Making content-aware components using CSS :has(), grid, and quantity queries

Eric Bailey teaches us how to make a hyper-resilient component that responds not only to the container, but other languages too.

CSS

A guide to destructuring in JavaScript

Mat “Wilto” Marquis walks us through JavaScript destructuring, the rest syntax and spread syntax in a jam-packed guide.

JavaScript

How we’re approaching theming with modern CSS

We’ve started a new project which requires heavy, creative theming, so I made a prototype to test some ideas out.

CSS