Bookmarks

Tool that converts any text into the Unicode equivalent for various "formatting" styles, e.g. superscript, strikethrough, "blackletter" (the oldey-timey style letters), etc. Useful to make memes 😂 (although note the disclaimer that heavily using this trick is generally considered inaccessible).

Web-based flamegraph visualiser. It accepts formats from Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Node, so seems like it would useful for comparison across browsers. There's also a couple of interesting options that change how the visualisation works, including one that sorts by the longest time.

Comprehensive list of all spec'ed values to the rel attribute on link or anchor elements. There's quite a lot of interesting and useful stuff in here.

Some surprising results of how screen readers treat various text formatting elements like bold/italics. The short version is that screen readers will only announce formatting if styled with CSS. So using <b> or <strong> doesn't actually matter from a screen reader perspective.

CSS snippet recreating an Android spinner using a couple of gradients and a keyframe animation.

CSS snippet demonstrating a circular "dial" that completes more of the circumference based on a variable.

A really clever idea to allow for globally synced state via a fairly simple custom hook. Using this avoids the need for complex Context nesting or lots of prop drilling.

A useful looking React hook that I was previously unaware of!

Comprehensive article outlining when to use the dialog element and the popover attribute, and sometimes both! Breaks down the expected behavioural differences from an accessibility perspective.

Short article pointing out that the ::file-selector-button pseudo-element exists and can be used to style the "Choose file..." button from <input type="file">.

A collection of JS snippets to copy/paste into dev tools to perform various useful actions.

Really interesting experiment in lambda-like functions. "Val"s are written in JS, and can be called as a JSON API. Each val (written in JS) can "call" other vals (authored by you or others) via a global naming system. You can then "stack up" small bits of functionality across many vals.

Neat-looking web app for editing SVG files in a visual editor (similar to Illustrator etc). Freemium model, seems like saving files to disk is included in the free plan.

Preact article introducing an alternative state mechanism to Hooks. As I understand it they wrap a value, providing a setter that can trigger re-renders. The main argument in their favour seems to be that they don't need memoisation as the "wrapper" itself doesn't change - only the value contained within. Preact takes this further by building Signal optimisations directly into the update cycle, allowing a Signal change to bypass VDOM diffing and just update the DOM directly.

Useful little library from the author of ESBuild that generates a fast-loading but blurry & small image from an existing image. These can then be used as placeholder image to get perceived fast page loads. It claims to produce more detailed images for the same size, and more accurate colours.

Github project to run a simplified ActivityPub/Mastodon server for single user, as opposed to the full-blown Mastodon server. Written in Node and designed to be run via services like Glitch.

Article pointing out that WCAG specifies that all keyboard shortcuts must be triggered with a modifier key (Cmd/Ctrl) to be accessible. There are 3 exceptions: if you can turn off the functionality; remap the keys or if the shortcut is only active in a limited case (e.g. while a select is open).

Interesting little tip, showing that you can detect whether a page was loaded due to clicking a link, reloading, back/forward or pre-rendered.

A breakdown of some pitfalls with OKRs, specifically around key results. Balanced by positive points about why OKRs are useful, namely that they force you to sit down and think about your strategy.

Great solution to the dark mode toggle problem.