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🔥 Raw-Dogging Websites + CSS Performance Deep Dive (and more!)

September 11, 2024

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🧑‍💻 Dev

Frontend Resources V2!

This collection is packed with a wide range of tools that cover everything from building stunning user interfaces to fine-tuning performance and much more.

Raw-dogging websites

Raw-dogging websites: index.html, styles.css, script.js. No frameworks, no CMSes, no build steps, no nuthin’.

map(), filter(), and reduce() in Javascript

In JavaScript, map, filter, and reduce are powerful array methods that allow you to manipulate and transform arrays efficiently. Each method iterates over the elements of an array, applies an operation, and returns a new array based on that.

🧠 UX

Reducing UX debt (or die trying)

Product people should be less concerned with delivering new features (maximising) than with reducing UX debt (optimising). Poor, unresolved user experience is what drives away customers and destroys team motivation and commitment.

Decentralizing UX with ML & GenAI

Can UX be personalized for each user to achieve the highest KPI rates? A conceptual framework to integrate machine learning and generative AI into UX workflows.

💭 Fun Fact

CSS Was Inspired by a Typesetting Language - Håkon Wium Lie, the creator of CSS, drew inspiration from a typesetting language called DSSSL (Document Style Semantics and Specification Language) when developing CSS. This influence is evident in CSS's focus on separating content from presentation.

💻 CSS

CSS finally adds vertical centering in 2024

align-content works in the default layout in 2024, allowing vertical centering with 1 CSS property.

Another Stab at Truncated Text

Seems like we’re always talking about clipping text around here. All it takes is a little browsing to spot a bunch of things we’ve already explored.

The Two Lines of CSS That Tanked Performance (120fps to 40fps)

As a user, you can really feel this drop in performance. It was so bad, that I straight up disabled this animation in Firefox.

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