Bruce Lawson post nominally about custom HTML elements bit with an interesting sidebar about the <data> element which is designed to wrap microdata/microformats to make it machine readable. There's also an interesting JS Bin linked showing an implementation of a colour swatch element.
October 2018Really interesting pattern/JS snippet to defer calculation of an expensive task with `requestIdleCallback`, *except* if that task is "urgent" (i.e. required synchronously)
October 2018Good reference article on various timeout functions in JS (setTimeout, requestAnimationFrame, requestIdleCallback)
September 2018Meet the incredible volunteer team behind the viral app - an amazing app that shows EU fund…
September 2018Really nice and simple markup/styling of FAQ style details (click a headline to show details)
September 2018Good documentation of "slots" pattern in React - basically just passing JSX as a prop. Also points out good way around prop drilling problem
August 2018Good short write up on writing proposals
July 2018Ah I needed this so badly: Simple resource from @rem which tells you whether an array metho…
June 2018Workaround for a stupid iOS Safari bug where re-orientating the screen breaks
June 2018Useful regex trick to match things inside matching quotes (and brackets) while also handling backslash escapes
June 2018I’m kind of embarrassed to admit how helpful this was in my understanding of floats:
June 2018Good introduction to "lenses", a functional pattern for immutably accessing/updating objects. The examples are in typescript but I think they would in JS too
June 2018Some super nice background effects coming to CSS in the future. This post shows some of the ways the backdrop-filter property can be used, including some nice iOS like effects
May 2018Thought provoking post on the cost of openness - namely the emotional labour of dealing with everyone's ability to interact with you/your posts
May 2018Diagram showing the new React lifecycle in React 16+ after changes for React fiber
May 2018It's here (in beta!) -- you can now try out Overleaf v2 :)
May 2018Really great blog post on React Fiber, walking through building your own mini-Fiber. Makes the concepts a lot clearer
March 2018