Journal
Here’s a neat trick. You can use an emoji as a favicon! I’ve written previously about how to do favicons properly, but for a short-lived hack project you tend to just need something quick and dirty. Chris Coyier has also shared a nice lil’ Codepen website showing the technique in action.
Now that all modern browsers support SVG favicons, here's how to turn any emoji into a favicon.svg:
— Lea Verou (@LeaVerou) March 22, 2020
<svg xmlns="https://t.co/TJalgdayix" viewBox="0 0 100 100">
<text y=".9em" font-size="90">💩</text>
</svg>
Useful for quick apps when you can't be bothered to design a favicon! pic.twitter.com/S2F8IQXaZU
Tooled Up: A brief history of SaaS tools we've loved (and lost) (FreeAgent Grinding Gears Blog)
I thought it might be interesting to look back through the years at how the tools in Engineering have changed as our company has grown from 3 to over 240 (and engineering to over 100), and to give a shout out to (some of!) those tools that we consider crucial to our workflow today – especially in these most unusual times where most of the world is working remotely.
grep.app
grep.app searches code from over a half million public repositories on GitHub.
Multiplayer Crosswords (chriszetter.com)
I wanted there to be an easy way to complete crosswords together that didn’t need people to pass a phone back and forth or for a copy of the crossword to be made in a shared Google Spreadsheet.
BEM Naming Cheat Sheet by 9elements
Here’s a handy resource providing BEM-based naming suggestions for some of the most common web components.
Finding participants for user research - Service Manual (GOV.UK)
It’s also important to do research with all the different kinds of people who may need your service, including those who: have disabilities or use assistive technologies; have limited digital skills or poor literacy; and may need help to use your service.
How to get started with web development (Go Make Things)
Here’s Chris Ferdinandi with a list of resources to help those who are new to web development get started. I’m keeping this one handy so I can share it with any friends who’re thinking of getting into this game.
Emergency Website Kit (Max Böck)
In cases of emergency, many organizations need a quick way to publish critical information. But existing (CMS) websites are often unable to handle sudden spikes in traffic.
How to create an accordion hover effect with box-shadows (Sarah L. Fossheim)
In this tutorial we'll use the box-shadow property to create a layered card component, and animate it on hover.
CSS Triggers
Check whether or not a CSS property is a good candidate for smooth animation based on whether updates to its value trigger expensive changes (to, for example, “element geometry”) causing layout updates and repaints.