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Reducing The Need For Pseudo-Elements

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When front-end developers hear “pseudo-elements”, we think of ::before and ::after more often than not, as we use them in various ways to add decorations to our elements. Interestingly, after years of web development, I never found myself using ::first-line , but it’s pretty neat and responds well to window resizing! Check it out.

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How To Build Resilient JavaScript UIs

Smashing Magazine

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. Jump to online workshops ?. Intermittent micro-services, unstable internet connections, or eventual consistency are all reasons to try again. More after jump!

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Gatsby Serverless Functions And The International Space Station

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In his online workshop on Building Modern HTML Emails , Rémi Parmentier will show how to code bulletproof, responsive HTML emails that work well in Gmail, Apple Mail, Yahoo and Outlook today. Jump to the workshop ?. Continue reading below ↓ How do you feel about building HTML emails these days? Online, and live. Sep 16–24, 2021.

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The State Of Web Workers In 2021

Smashing Magazine

iOS empowers developers to easily parallelize code using Grand Central Dispatch , Android does this via their new, unified task scheduler WorkManager and game engines like Unity have job systems. Consequently, we as developers have 1000ms/60 = 16.6ms to produce each frame, which is also called the “frame budget”. More after jump!

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Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers

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Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. Jump to online workshops ?. Beware also of possible technical failures like poor internet connection or not preparing relevant data in advance. More after jump!

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

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Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Rachel Andrew. Jake Archibald. Jake Archibald.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I also learned how marketing worked, and began to build my presentation and training skills as I was sent around the world by Sun to teach workshops and speak at events. Another big jump, but now it was my job to run benchmarks in the lab, and write white papers that explained the new products to the world, as they were launched.

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