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• Recipes for Performance Testing Single Page Applications in WebPageTest (Css Tricks)
  WebPageTest is an online tool and an Open Source project to help developers audit the performance of their websites.
• Minimal Takes on Faking Container Queries (Css Tricks)
  It's sounding more and more likely that we're actually going to get real container queries.
• Introducing Headless WordPress with Gatsby Cloud (Live Preview, Incremental Builds, and more!) (Css Tricks)
  The Gatsby team shipped an update to its source plugin for WordPress, graduating it to a beta release.
• How to Animate the Details Element Using WAAPI | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)
  Animating accordions in JavaScript has been one of the most asked animations on websites.
• Boilerform: A Follow-Up (Css Tricks)
  When Chris wrote his idea for a Boilerform, I had already been thinking about starting a new project.
• Gulp for WordPress: Initial Setup (Css Tricks)
  This is the first part of a two-part series on creating a Gulp workflow for WordPress theme development.
• GoGetSSL | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)
  I’ve always relied on my host to install SSL certificates on my servers and manage it. I know enough that I know about Let’s Encrypt and ho…
• How to Build Vue Components in a WordPress Theme (Css Tricks)
  The inline-template directive allows us to build rich Vue components as a progressive enhancement over existing WordPress markup.
• What’s Old is New (Css Tricks)
  This year, I learned a lot about how "old" tricks can solve a lot of modern problems if you use the right tools.
• Faulty logic (Css Tricks)
  Ain’t this the truth: It’s like when you’re learning a new language. At some point your brain goes from translating from your mother tongue…
• Wufoo Cracks the Code for Forms So You Don't Have To (Css Tricks)
  There was a lot of buzz about forms last week when Jason Grisby pointed to a missing pattern attribute on Chipotle’s order form that could…
• The Best Design System Tool is Slack (Css Tricks)
  There's a series of questions I’ve struggled with for as long as I can remember.
• Taming Blend Modes: `difference` and `exclusion` (Css Tricks)
  Up until 2020, blend modes were a feature I hadn’t used much because I rarely ever had any idea what result they could produce without givi…
• Get Started Building GraphQL APIs With Node (Css Tricks)
  We all have a number of interests and passions.
• Migrating from Parcel to Snowpack (Css Tricks)
  I find build tooling endlessly interesting, especially right now as we’re in a juicy next-gen transitional period with players like Vite, w…
• Creating Dynamic Routes in a Nuxt Application (Css Tricks)
  It’s a fairly common use-case: you get data from an API, and you either don’t know exactly what that data might be, there’s a lot of it, or…
• How I Built my SaaS MVP With Fauna ($150 in revenue so far) | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)
  I've just finished my MVP of ReviewBolt.com, a competitor analysis tool.
• The Typed Object Model (Css Tricks)
  I help write technical documentation and one feature I've been writing about this year that has really stood out is the Typed Object Model…
• Edge Goes Chromium: What Does it Mean for Front-End Developers? (Css Tricks)
  In December 2018, Microsoft announced that Edge would adopt Chromium, the open source project that powers Google Chrome.
• Design Systems Blogathon (Css Tricks)
  It was fun watching a bunch of back and forth blogging between a bunch of smart people quoting a bunch of smart people last week.
• Gutenberging (Css Tricks)
  It's been over a year since the big WordPress launch of Gutenberg, the new editor. It seems to me most of the controversy around it has die…
• Where Does Logic Go on Jamstack Sites? (Css Tricks)
  Here’s something I had to get my head wrapped around when I started building Jamstack sites.
• Drupal to Jamstack (Css Tricks)
  I've been harping for a while that Jamstack doesn't necessarily mean throwing away your old CMS.
• Why you should hire a front-end developer | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)
  Matt Hobbs says you should hire a front-end developer because...
• Guillermo's 2019 in Review (Css Tricks)
  Of all the tech-focused year-in-review posts I read, Guillermo Rauch's is my favorite.
• Timeless Web Dev Articles (Css Tricks)
  Pavithra Kodmad asked people for recommendations on what they thought were some of the most timeless articles about web development that ha…
• The Simplest Way to Load CSS Asynchronously (Css Tricks)
  Scott Jehl: One of the most impactful things we can do to improve page performance and resilience is to load CSS in a way that does not del…
• A Community-Driven Site with Eleventy: Preparing for Contributions (Css Tricks)
  I've recently found myself reaching for Eleventy (aka 11ty) above all other tools when I want to develop a website.
• The Making (and Potential Benefits) of a CSS Font (Css Tricks)
  Each character is an HTML element, built with CSS.
• Clean Up Your CSS (Css Tricks)
  Cascading Style Sheets, at its root, is intended to separate the style of a webpage from the content.
• Weekly Platform News: CSS font-style: oblique, webhint browser extension, CSS Modules V1 (Css Tricks)
  In this week's roundup, variable fonts get oblique, a new browser extension for linting, and the very first version of CSS Modules.
• font-weight: 300 considered harmful (Css Tricks)
  Tomáš Janoušek: Many web pages these days set font-weight: 300 in their stylesheet. With Deja Vu Sans as my preferred font, this results in…
• Exploring What the Details and Summary Elements Can Do (Css Tricks)
  We’ve mentioned before just how great the and elements are.
• Virtual Event Registrations with Wufoo Forms (Css Tricks)
  We've seen many events shift from in-person to online this year.
• The Simplest Ways to Handle HTML Includes (Css Tricks)
  It's extremely surprising to me that HTML has never had any way to include other HTML files within it.
• Using FuseBox as a Bundling Alternative to webpack for React (Css Tricks)
  If you are searching for an alternative bundler to webpack, you might want to take a look at FuseBox.
• A Cornucopia of Container Queries (Css Tricks)
  I don't know about y'all, but my feeds have been flooded with articles about CSS Container Queries these past few weeks.
• 3 Steps to Enable Client Hints on Your Image CDN (Css Tricks)
  The goal of Client Hints is to provide a framework for a browser when informing the server about the context in which a web experience is p…
• Learn to Make Your Site Inclusive, by Design (Css Tricks)
  But the truth is that it often takes a back seat to competing priorities, deadlines, and decisions from above.
• Table with Expando Rows | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)
  “Expando Rows” is a concept where multiple related rows in a are collapsed until you open them.
• Form Validation Part 3: A Validity State API Polyfill (Css Tricks)
  In the last article in this series, we built a lightweight script (6 kb, 2.7 kb minified) using the Validity State API to enhance the nativ…
• Highlights of the HTTP Archive Web Almanac (Css Tricks)
  I recently looked at the CSS chapter of the Web Alamanc and had some thoughts.
• :where() has a cool specificity trick, too. (Css Tricks)
  There is a lot of hype on the :is() pseudo-selector lately, probably because now that Safari 14 has it, it's supported across all the major…
• Tech Stacks and Website Longevity (Css Tricks)
  Steren Giannini in “My stack will outlive yours”: My stack requires no maintenance, has perfect Lighthouse scores, will never have any secu…
• How to Simplify SVG Code Using Basic Shapes (Css Tricks)
  There are different ways to work with icons, but the best solution always includes SVG, whether it’s implemented inline or linked up as an…
• Chromium lands Flexbox gap (Css Tricks)
  I mentioned this the other day via Michelle Barker's coverage, but here I'll link to the official announcement.
• Why Netlify? (Css Tricks)
  I think it's fair to think of Netlify as a CDN-backed static file host. But it would also be silly to think that's all it is.
• Get Programmatic Control of your Builds with Netlify Build Plugins | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)
  Today at Jamstack_Conf, Netlify announced Build Plugins.
• Deeper DX | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)
  Shawn Wang thinks there are deeper, perhaps more uncomfortable, places to go with developer experience (DX) beyond the surface-level stuff…
• Still Hoping for Better Native Page Transitions (Css Tricks)
  It would be nice to be able to animate the transition between pages if we want to on the web without resorting to hacks or full-blown archi…