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Let's wrap up the week with some fun and inspiring links with The Index #132.| Piccalilli
FYI Save £60 until October 28, using coupon code JS4ELAUNCH at checkout and get JavaScript for Everyone for £189, down from £249. Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) discounts are also available to countries that usually get them. Our system will work out the cheapest price for you if you qualify for PPP vs. the launch price of £189. To celebrate the launch of JavaScript for Everyone, we gathered some questions from the community for Mat to answer to give you some more insight into the why of t...| Piccalilli - Everything
We recently launched JavaScript for Everyone, and a lot of people have mentioned that they don’t know how to approach their boss to ask them to pay for it. Here’s an email template for you to help with that. Dear {{Boss}}, I have found a JavaScript course that I believe will elevate our team’s knowledge of how the language really works, which in turn, will improve the quality of the JavaScript code we produce, day-to-day. I also think a deeper knowledge of the language will reduce our t...| Piccalilli - Everything
Before we start, just to let you know, JavaScript for Everyone is now available. There's more info for you in the sponsor message at the end 💛 Henry Ford's horse problem wasn't about imagination The mistake most people make—and the one this quote reinforces—is thinking user research means asking users what to build. A very good read. Common misconceptions about screen readers The TetraLogical team really are a canonical, trusted and ever-helpful resource for accessibility education. Da...| Piccalilli - Everything
FYI Save £60 until October 28, using coupon code JS4ELAUNCH at checkout and get JavaScript for Everyone for £189, down from £249. Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) discounts are also available to countries that usually get them. Our system will work out the cheapest price for you if you qualify for PPP vs. the launch price of £189. 86,791 words later, countless rounds of thorough technical edits and a humongous team effort building custom infrastructure, JavaScript for Everyone is now ready a...| Piccalilli - Everything
We’ve got 5 very good links this Friday for you in The Index #126. It's a fun one to close out…a week, huh?| Piccalilli
Function-based JavaScript is really common in frameworks like React and Vue, but what about Web Components? Ginger is here to show you how to build a reusable function to do just that.| Piccalilli
Andy Bell had heard companies were forcing employees to use AI tools so spoke to developers to determine if that was the case and learned some horrors in the process.| Piccalilli
This one is different, I promise. It's my advice on approaching the options we have to center an element with CSS now and what pragmatic choices we should make.| Piccalilli
After a truck-load of work, we’ve given our upcoming courses branded landed pages so that our authors have their own little home to express themselves on Piccalilli.| Piccalilli
Declan Chidlow takes us on a really interesting tour of the often, under-reported world of print stylesheets, how to use them and also how to debug them.| Piccalilli
A CSS methodology oriented towards simplicity and consistency with a heavy dosage of pragmatism.| Piccalilli
In Every Layout, we wrote about The Stack. It’s a marriage of Heydon’s Lobotomised Owl selector and my method of managing Flow and Rhythm with CSS Custom Properties.| Piccalilli
Posted on Piccalilli: How to make hyper-resilient components that respond to not only the container, but other languages too.…| Eric Bailey
Progressive enhancement hasn’t caught on nearly as much as it should. It’s likely related to folks not being able to envision it working in their real world contexts. This post attempts to alleviate that and reignite the conversation.| Piccalilli
Inheritance truly is a superpower and it’s what makes developing on the web a joy if you embrace it. In this quick post, I’m going to convert you into a super fan.| Piccalilli
Often feared by developers, the cascade and specificity is actually really simple if you utilise the right mental model when authoring CSS.| Piccalilli
I’ve created some low fidelity demos of :has() snippets that I’ve been using in real-world client projects.| Piccalilli
I wrote “A Modern CSS Reset” almost 4 years ago and, yeh, it’s not aged overly well. I spotted it being linked up again a few days ago and thought it’s probably a good idea to publish an updated version.| Piccalilli