Some useful tips for Makefiles. Includes a useful script for extracting comments from the Makefile to show help docs in the CLI
April 2017Good BEM explainer from Harry Roberts (CSS Wizardry)
April 2017Great intro article to JSX. Abstracts away React, so could potential be a little confusing. But if you think that `h()` -> `React.createElement`, then it's fine
April 2017Some neat CSS to add an overlay demonstrating a grid system as a dev tool. Can be configured using CSS variables
April 2017Great guides from Paul Lewis on CSS performance problems and how to debug them in Chrome dev tools
April 2017Whole bunch of useful dev tools tips for designing in the browser:
April 2017A script for creating a performant menu animation with transform scale. Interesting technique of calculating a custom animation based on menu size in JS, then injecting it into the DOM.
April 2017Useful tip on forcing CSS animations to be paused until assets (like large images) are loaded
April 2017Useful gist showing quick testing set up for React & axe-core for accessibility
March 2017Quick tip to enable media query detection/visualisation in Chrome Dev Tools
March 2017Scanner from mozilla to check for security headers/settings on your web sites
March 2017Some great slides on the why and how of react-virtualized for rendering long/complex lists
March 2017Some useful techniques for animating elements without a hard-coded height. No perfect solutions unfortunately, but still useful in some situations
March 2017Neat trick using vmin measurement unit to make a more balanced header on large and small devices
March 2017Interesting notes on scroll performance across the browsers - I didn't realise they optimised to make scrolling multi-threaded
March 2017Useful reference showing which CSS properties will trigger repaints/layouts/etc if changed
March 2017Btw, taken from this excellent explainer series from @linclark
March 2017A list of code smells in CSS from Harry Roberts. Mostly agree with the ones listed, however I find some of the sentiments too strong (too much "never do this")
March 2017Massive list of resources for web design. Everything from accessibility to UX patterns
March 2017Short & simple practical introduction to CSS Grid
March 2017