In this edition, we’re spotlighting fresh frontend developments. Alongside insights on AI’s impact in web development and Bramus’s scroll-driven animation tips, we delve into Antoine Mayerowitz’s creative use of the Pareto Principle in game design.
Join us for a nostalgic throwback with Figma’s old-school cursors, the JavaScript Signals proposal enhancing reactive programming, and Bruce Lawson’s practical accessibility tweaks.
Plus, don’t miss Michele Giorgi’s in-depth case study, 84—24, on our blog—a nostalgic journey with a modern twist.
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Rob Eisenberg and Daniel Ehrenberg share a proposal for introducing “Signals” into JavaScript, aiming to standardize reactive programming mechanisms for improved interoperability, performance, and debugging across web development frameworks.
Bruce Lawson highlights quick “drive-by” accessibility tweaks in web development, such as using semantic HTML5 landmarks and improving in-page link accessibility, to enhance user experience inclusively.
Exploring the link between sleep and writing quality reveals that less sleep can result in less rigorous yet more concise writing, based on an analysis of over 2,500 nights of sleep data and 58 blog posts.
Jeremy Keith introduces the “hanging-punctuation” CSS property, which enables punctuation marks to hang outside text edges for cleaner alignment, currently supported mainly in Safari.
…Elk Cloner, recognized as one of the inaugural microcomputer viruses to proliferate “in the wild” — that is, beyond the confines of the system where it originated — targeted the Apple II operating system and propagated through floppy disks? This piece of programming history was crafted around 1982 by the then 15-year-old high schooler Rich Skrenta, who later became known as a programmer and entrepreneur. Initially devised as a humorous prank, Elk Cloner found its way onto a game disk, marking an early instance of computer virus spread outside a controlled environment.
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