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🤓 Nerdy Details of Apple’s watchOS

July 26, 2023

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🖱️ CSS scroll progression
🧑‍💻 Self-closing HTML tags
⌚️ Apple's watchOS

Enjoy this week's edition ✌️ - Adam at Unicorn Club.

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Multi-layered calendars

Time is a curious thing. It’s a constantly flowing stream that can’t be paused, stopped, or repeated. We experience it, but we can’t control it. We can’t even touch or feel it.

Nerdy Details from the Redesign of Apple’s watchOS

Apple Watch was launched in 2014 and in the nearly ten years since we’ve seen significant updates to the screen, case materials, sensors and accessories.

🧑‍💻 Code

In Defence of DOMContentLoaded

The problem with using diagnostic metrics like Load or DOMContentLoaded to measure site-speed is that it has no bearing on how a user might actually experience your site.

Scroll progress animations in CSS

Scroll-linked animations can often add a touch of class to a website, but have long been the preserve of JavaScript.

The case against self-closing tags in HTML

Back in the late 90s and early 2000s, the W3C had a real thing for XML, and thought that it should replace HTML syntax.

The new @font-face syntax

The new @font-face syntax has also been supported since Safari 17, Firefox 106 and Chrome 108.

CSS Findings From The Threads App

One of the most noteworthy use cases of CSS Grid in a production app is found in Threads. CSS Grid is used to build the post layout.

Interactive SVG Animations

A text-based mini-course on making whimsical, playful SVG animations.

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