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- Link o’the Week 1: A user’s guide to CSS variables by Lea Verou
- Link o’the Week 2: Global and Component Style Settings with CSS Variables – “Or how I use CSS variables to create more manageable project styles and more portable patterns” by Sara Souiedan
- Optimizing keyboard navigation using tabindex and ARIA also by Sara Souiedan
- Flow browser passes the Acid tests – “Our goal for Flow is to render websites correctly the first time that anyone tries them. Most of the Acid3 subtests are going to make a real difference.”
- Introducing Alpine.js: A Tiny JavaScript Framework – “involves no build steps and provides all of the tools you need to build a basic user interface”. I haven’t used it yet but hear good things about it.
- CSS :is() and :where() are coming to browsers
- The Surprising Things That CSS Can Animate
- IBM quits facial-recognition market over police racial-profiling concerns – Every tech company should put out their statement on their tech’s use for “mass surveillance, racial profiling, violations of basic human rights and freedoms.
- Covid-19 makes it clearer than ever: access to the internet should be a universal right says Sir Uncle Timbo.
- PHP Marks 25 Years – “This week the web is celebrating 25 years since Rasmus Lerdorf released version 1.0 of his “Personal Home Page Tools (PHP Tools).” PHP is now used by 78.9% of all the websites whose server-side programming language W3Techs can detect.” – I ❤️ PHP.
- Me! Me! Me! corner: Beginners’ Guide To Writing Good HTML – my 5500 word article for beginners on writing good semantic HTML, using a Cheeky Girls fan site to walk through the thought process.
- Setting up Prince on AWS Lambda and API Gateway by Moi.
- Setting up Prince on EC2 with PHP – also me.