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June 21, 2023

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Latest Industry Trends, News & Resources

Happy Wednesday ✌️ Here's what we have this week:

😓 Complexity in front-end development
🌫️ Gooey cursor effect
🧑‍💻 @scope in CSS

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📚 Top Reads

Reducing Complexity in Front End Development

We tend to npm install third-party dependencies unthinkingly. But these packages often rely on other dependencies themselves.

Negative-Space Typography

Controlling the space between text styles is as important as differentiating the styles themselves.

Are Simple Websites Better For Business?

Minimalism — the clean, grey-on-white aesthetic popularised by (among others) Apple — has been the dominant trend for years.

An introduction to @scope in CSS

There had once been a scoped HTML attribute but it got deprecated. It’s been replaced by @scope in CSS. It’s due to land in Chrome 117.

Modern CSS For Dynamic Component-Based Architecture

The language of CSS has had an explosion of new features and improvements in the last few years.

🛠 Resources & Tools

Gooey Cursor Effect

A fun gooey cursor background effect with SVG filters and CSS blend modes.

Rebuilding a comment component with modern CSS

As a part of my curious UI inspection, I thought about why not to look at popular websites and see how they implemented the comment component layout.

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