Journal
Introducing Rome
We’re excited to announce the first beta release and general availability of the Rome linter for JavaScript and TypeScript. This is the beginning of an entire suite of tools. Rome is not only a linter, but also a compiler, bundler, test runner, and more, for JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, JSON, Markdown, and CSS. We aim to unify the entire frontend development toolchain.
Create a line break while maintaining inline status (on Piccalilli)
Sometimes you want to create a line break after an inline element, while retaining that inline element’s inline status.
Jakarta Sans Typeface
Jakarta Sans is a nice-looking Open Source (so free to use) typeface which I reckon I could use at some point.
Joshua Hughes / Senior Product Designer
The lovely new portfolio website of my colleague, Josh, featuring some lovely articles and design touches.
Daniel Post shared a really cool performance-optimisation trick for Eleventy on Twitter the other day. When statically generating your site you can loop through your pages and, for each, use PurgeCSS to find the required CSS, then inline that into the <head>. This way, each page contains only the CSS it needs and no more!
I’ve just installed this on my personal site. I was already inlining my CSS into the <head> but the promise of only including the minimum CSS that each specific page needs was too good to resist.
Turned out it was a breeze to get working, a nice introduction to Eleventy transforms, and so far it’s working great!
Thoughts on inline JavaScript event handlers in the <head>
I’ve been thinking about Scott Jehl’s “simplest way to load external CSS asynchronously” technique. I’m interested in its use of an inline (onload) event handler for running JavaScript-based enhancements in the <head>, in the context of some broader ruminations on how best to progressively enhance UI elements with JavaScript (for example adding toggle show/hide) without causing layout jank.
“Doing It Right” Podcast, with Dotty Charles
An interview with Ashley ‘Dotty’ Charles, a writer and broadcaster, on the topic of online outrage.
By shouting about the little things, are we neglecting to talk about the bigger issues in modern society? We discuss performative outrage, the role of the social media provocateur and the strange case of Rachel Dolezal.
Hero Patterns: Free repeatable SVG background patterns for your web projects
From Steve Schoger:
A collection of repeatable SVG background patterns for you to use on your web projects.
Inclusive Datepicker (by Tommy Feldt)
A human-friendly datepicker. Supports natural language manual input through Chrono.js. Fully accessible with keyboard and screen reader.
Sign-in form best practices (on web.dev)
Sam Dutton advises how to use cross-platform browser features to build sign-in forms that are secure, accessible and easy to use.