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🖥️ Accordions on Desktop: When and How to Use
🟢 Open-source monitoring service
🎨 Design systems

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

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If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them?

Web Components have a marketing problem. I have a lot of opinions about this, so many that I joined the Web Components Community Group.

Open-source monitoring service

OpenStatus is an open source alternative to your current monitoring service with a beautiful status page.

👁️ A11Y

Do we need WCAG 3 (now)?

Earlier this week, W3C/WAI announced that Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 is now at the last hurdle before becoming a standard.

🎨 Design

The future of design systems is semantic

Variables, one of Figma’s newest features, help you streamline designs and connect more closely to code, but what do they tell us about larger shifts in the industry?

🧠 UX

Rethinking Window Management

Window management is one of those areas I’m fascinated with because even after 50 years, nobody’s fully cracked it yet.

Just normal web things.

We've let ourselves get away from building websites that can do normal web things.

Accordions on Desktop: When and How to Use

While accordions can simplify long content pages and minimize scrolling, they diminish content visibility and increase interaction cost

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