Weekly Digest 21/2021
Welcome to my Weekly Digest #21.
This weekly digest contains a lot of interesting and inspiring articles, videos, tweets, podcasts, and designs I consumed during this week.
Interesting articles to read
A New Way To Reduce Font Loading Impact: CSS Font Descriptors
Font loading has long been a bugbear of web performance, and there really are no good choices here. If you want to use web fonts your choices are basically Flash of Invisible Text (aka FOIT) where the text is hidden until the font downloads or Flash of Unstyled Text (FOUT) where you use the fallback system font initially and then upgrade it to the web font when it downloads.
A Guide To Undoing Mistakes With Git
Mistakes. These cruel villains do not even stop at the beautiful world of software development. But although we cannot avoid making mistakes, we can learn to undo them! This article will show the right tools for your daily work with Git.
Converting tables to grids with React compound components
Using React compound components, learn how to dynamically switch from a table to grid layout for an interactive interface.
State Management: How to tell a bad boolean from a good boolean
Bad booleans represent state. Good booleans are derived from state. When you’re managing state in your app, it’s easy to fall prey to bad booleans
A couple of ways to highlight code syntax in Apple Keynote slides
Apple Keynote doesn’t come with code syntax highlighting built in. I really wish it did, and hope that Apple would at some point add this feature, especially considering how many developers and engineers use Keynote to create talk slides.
Some great videos I watched this week
React useState hook (with TypeScript)
React Hooks are amazing. A key feature that allows Function components to be THE WAY to create new React Projects.
CI #2 — Starting out with GitHub Actions
Github Actions are an easy way to get started with Continuous Integration. You used to have to rely on services like Travis CI, Circle CI, etc. but now the main repository hosts have CI built into their platform.
New in Chrome 91: File System Access API improvements, Google IO, and more
Chrome 91 is rolling out now. Web apps that interact with files, can now suggest file names and directories when using the file system access API. Plus, you can now read files from the clipboard. If your site has more than one domain, and shares the same account management backend, you can tell Chrome they’re the same, allowing the password manager to suggest the right credentials. All the videos from I/O are now available. And there’s plenty more.
Chrome 91 — What’s New in DevTools
Web vitals information pop up, visualize CSS scroll-snap, new Memory inspector and more.
Requesting color from CSS in 2021 and beyond
From a limited set of web safe colors to more colors than your eye can distinguish, follow me as we play and toy with color from CSS and reach into the most vibrant colors of your screens.
Useful GitHub repositories
Awesome Privacy
List of free, open-source and privacy-respecting services and alternatives to privative services.
Boring Avatars
Boring avatars is a tiny JavaScript React library that generates custom, SVG-based, round avatars from any username and color palette.
dribbble shots
Trickle Landing Page
Digital Banking Dashboard Clean UI
Home Rent
mujer
Shoes App
Tweets
Picked Pens
CSS mouse-out transition effect
Colorful Noise
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Podcasts worth listening
The CSS Podcast — Containment
The CSS contain property can give you some serious performance gains by adjusting how and when the browser renders elements. In this episode, we go over all the different types of containment, and where you might use them.
Syntax — JavaScript’s Drag and Drop API
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about JavaScript’s drag and drop API — how it works, concerns, best practices, and more!
3 Minutes with Kent — Fixating on fixing rerenders
Thank you for reading, talk to you next week, and stay safe! 👋
