Interconnected, a blog by Matt Webb
How would I improve RSS? Three ideas
Posted on Wednesday 29 Jul 2020. 1,702 words, 7 links. By Matt Webb.
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Gatsby
The World’s Sneakiest Route Change | Gatsby
The story of how we added dynamic filtering to an entirely statically-built Gatsby site. -
Jul 16, 2020, 2:15 PM -04:00 Bookmark of https://adactio.com/journal/17140
Jul 16, 2020, 10:45 AM -04:00Hey now
Progressive enhancement is at the heart of everything I do on the web. It’s the bedrock of my speaking and writing too. Whether I’m writing about JavaScript, Ajax, HTML, or service workers, it’s always through the lens of progressive enhancement. Sometimes I explicitly bang the drum, like with Resilient Web Design. Other times I don’t mention it by name at all, and instead talk only about its benefits. I sometimes get asked to name some examples of sites that still offer their core functiona... -
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Matthias OttMay 12, 2019, 7:05 AM -04:00Into the Personal-Website-Verse
Social media in 2019 is a garbage fire. What started out as the most promising development in the history of the Web – the participation of users in the creation of content and online dialogue at scale – has turned into a swamp of sensation, lies, hate speech, harassment, and noise. Your Unfriendly Neighborhood Craving for attention and engagement, our timelines have changed. Algorithms now prioritize content from people with a huge following and everything that is loud and outrageous. It’... -
Jul 11, 2020, 9:27 AM -04:00 Bookmark of https://sarahchima.com/blog/css-specificity/
What is CSS Specificity?
CSS specificity is an important topic to understand if you want to get better at CSS. . In this article, we discuss what CSS specificity is and how it is used to determine which styles are applied to an element. -
Jul 11, 2020, 9:24 AM -04:00 A little bit of plain Javascript can do a lot
I’ve never worked as a professional frontend developer, so even though I’ve been writing HTML/CSS/JS for 15 years for little side projects, all of the projects have been pretty small, sometimes I don’t write any Javascript for years in between, and I often don’t quite feel like I know what I’m doing. Partly because of that, I’ve leaned on libraries a lot! Ten years ago I used to use jQuery, and since maybe 2017 I’ve been using a lot of vue.js for my little Javascript projects (you can see a ... -
Jul 1, 2020, 9:47 PM -04:00 
CSS-Tricks
In Defense of a Fussy Website | CSS-Tricks
The other day I was doom-scrolling twitter, and I saw a delightful article titled “The Case for Fussy Breakfasts.” I love food and especially breakfast, and -
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Matthias OttJun 28, 2020, 8:06 PM -04:00Fussy Web, True Meaning.
Sarah Drasner just published a fabulous article, In Defense of a Fussy Website, in which she makes the case that we should all design and build websites again that are a joy to visit. Sites with those little details that make you smile, with small delights and touches that really make users stay. When a site is done with care and excitement you can tell. You feel it as you visit, the hum of intention. The craft, the cohesiveness, the attention to det...