Dark Ages of the Web
Notes on the old internet, its design and frontend.
How to (not) make a button - Tomas Pustelnik’s personal website
A demonstration of how even reinventing a relatively simple wheel takes way more effort than it’s worth when you could just use what the brower gives you for free.
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Design Patterns on CodePen
This ever-growing curated collection of interface patterns on CodePen is a reliable source of inspiration.
You can’t create a button by Nicholas Zakas
Related to my rant on links that aren’t actually links: buttons that aren’t actually buttons.
Two Paradigms for Enhancing HTML Tags | That HTML Blog
This really gets to the heart of one of the biggest benefits of HTML web components: composability. You can nest your regular markup inside multiple custom elements; something that is can’t do.
The other exciting approach doesn’t exist yet: custom attributes. Again, they’d be a great way of using composability to turbo-charge your existing HTML in all sorts of ways.
Alistair Davidson / validation-enhancer · GitLab
Here’s another nice progressive web component for your forms, this time for showing error messages.
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Progressively enhancing maps
How I switched to high-resolution maps on The Session without degrading performance.
AMPstinction
Thinking about the end game.
Why use React?
Or, more precisely, why use React *in the browser*?
Reasoning
In which I find a tagline for Web Day Out and a tagline for React.
Speaking at Web Day Out
Have you got the perfect talk for this event? Let me know!