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Calendar showing a bunch of exhibitions at London museums/galleries. Bit slow to load, but nice design

Tool from Chrome dev team to compress images - png, jpg, svg

Super useful tool to convert a raw SVG (say from Sketch) and convert it to JSX, and also running it through SVGO to optimise it.

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.

Really interesting pattern/JS snippet to defer calculation of an expensive task with `requestIdleCallback`, *except* if that task is "urgent" (i.e. required synchronously)

Good reference article on various timeout functions in JS (setTimeout, requestAnimationFrame, requestIdleCallback)

Some neat colour functions in JS to darken/lighten/blend colours

Meet the incredible volunteer team behind the viral app - an amazing app that shows EU fund…

Really nice and simple markup/styling of FAQ style details (click a headline to show details)

Some neat hacks with pointer-events in CSS

Nice & simple CSS gradient creator

Good documentation of "slots" pattern in React - basically just passing JSX as a prop. Also points out good way around prop drilling problem

Good short write up on writing proposals

Ah I needed this so badly: Simple resource from @rem which tells you whether an array metho…

Workaround for a stupid iOS Safari bug where re-orientating the screen breaks

Useful regex trick to match things inside matching quotes (and brackets) while also handling backslash escapes

I’m kind of embarrassed to admit how helpful this was in my understanding of floats:

Good introduction to "lenses", a functional pattern for immutably accessing/updating objects. The examples are in typescript but I think they would in JS too

Some 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

Thought provoking post on the cost of openness - namely the emotional labour of dealing with everyone's ability to interact with you/your posts