Layoutit Terra - CSS Terrain Generator
It’s wild what you can do with CSS these days!
Solving Sol
Browser implementations of Sol LeWitt’s conceptual and minimal art, many of which only exist as instructions like this:
Vertical lines, not straight, not touching, covering the wall evenly.
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“Just” One Line - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
There’s a big difference between the interface to a thing being one line of code, and the cost of a thing being one line of code.
A more acute rendering of this sales pitch is probaly: “It’s just one line of code to add many more lines of code.”
And as Chris puts it:
Every dependency is a potential vulnerability
Grease
Grease is a website starter that makes building performant, accessible, aesthetic websites fast & frictionless.
Interestingly, this starter kit uses cascade layers for managing CSS.
article vs. section: How To Choose The Right One — Smashing Magazine
I really, really enjoyed this deep dive into practical HTML semantics. Sit back and enjoy!
Ban embed codes
Prompted by my article on third-party code, here’s a recommendation to ditch any embeds on your website.
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How I switched to high-resolution maps on The Session without degrading performance.
Responsibility
Fear of a third-party planet.
Talking about style
The transcript of a talk.
Publishing The State Of The Web
There’s a video and a transcript of the talk.
Performance and people
When it comes to web performance, there are technical issues and then there are human issues.