Weekly Digest 08/2021
Welcome to my Weekly Digest #8 of this year and the last one of February.
This weekly digest contains a lot of interesting and inspiring articles, videos, tweets, and designs I consumed during this week.
Interesting articles to read
Getting Deep into Shadows
Let’s talk shadows in web design. Shadows add texture, perspective, and emphasize the dimensions of objects. In web design, using light and shadow can add physical realism.
The Future of CSS: Scroll-Linked Animations with @scroll-timeline
The “Scroll-linked Animations Specification” is an upcoming addition to CSS that defines a way for creating animations that are linked to a scroll offset of a scroll container. Let’s take a look at how it works and what results we can achieve with it.
.new — Google Registry
Browse the full list of .new shortcuts available today from Adobe, Spotify, and many more.
A DRY Approach to Color Themes in CSS
The other day, Florens Verschelde asked about defining dark mode styles for both a class and a media query, without repeat CSS custom properties declarations.
Maximally optimizing image loading for the web in 2021
In this post, Malte Ubl outlines 8 image loading optimization techniques to minimize both the bandwidth used for loading images on the web and the CPU usage for image display.
Hiding Content Responsibly
In this article, Kitty Giraudel discusses all the ways to hide something, be it through HTML or CSS, and when to use which.
Some great videos I watched this week
Spring Forces
Boing! Time to simulate a spring force! This challenge fits into chapters 2 and 3 of the Nature of Code and demonstrates how to simulate the oscillating motion of a spring using vectors and forces.
How Disney’s Magic Mirror Works | Enchanted Tales with Belle
Chrome 89 — What’s New in DevTools
Building Collision Simulations: An Introduction to Computer Graphics
Collision detection systems show up in all sorts of video games and simulations. But how do you actually build these systems? Turns out that the key ideas behind these systems show up all over a field of computer science called computer graphics.
Upgrading DevTools’ architecture to the modern web
The Chrome DevTools codebase is around 150,000 lines of first-party JavaScript, with some parts being over ten-years old. As with any large, legacy codebase, there are a range of challenges to navigate, whether it be testing, code style and consistency, or simply understanding what the code is doing! This session steps through how we plan, implement, and maintain code migrations in Chrome’s DevTools.
Useful GitHub repositories
Engineering Manager Resources
A list of engineering manager resource links.
qiankun
An implementation of Micro Frontends, based on single-spa, but made it production-ready.
dribbble shots
Foodoo Mobile
Pulver : Render Showcase Responsive
QUAN — minimum awesome product
Refreshing UI for a watch app
Tweets
Talk to you next week and stay safe! 👋
