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Engineering — In Defense of a Fussy Website

In Defense of a Fussy Website

The other day I was doom-scrolling twitter, and I saw a delightful article titled “The Case for Fussy Breakfasts.” I love food and especially breakfast, and

SDSarah DrasnerSarah Drasner·June 26, 2020Engineering
Frontend — The Return of the 90s Web

The Return of the 90s Web

One of my forever-lessons here on CSS-Tricks is that having your own website and blogging on it is a good idea. It's probably one of the best decisions I've

CCChris Coyier·June 26, 2020Frontend
Frontend — Line-Animated Hamburger Menu

Line-Animated Hamburger Menu

This kind of SVG + CSS animation trickery is catnip to me. Mikael Ainalem shares how to draw a hamburger icon (the "three lines" thing you're well familiar

CCChris Coyier·June 26, 2020Frontend
Frontend — Dropbox dives into CoffeeScript

Dropbox dives into CoffeeScript

During July's Hackweek, the three of us rewrote Dropbox's full browser-side codebase to use CoffeeScript instead of JavaScript, and we've been really happy with how it's been going so far. This is a controversial subject, so we thought we'd start by explaining why...

DWDan Wheeler·June 26, 2020Frontend
SRE & Ops — GitHub Action Hero: Victoria Drake

GitHub Action Hero: Victoria Drake

GitHub Actions allows you to automate your workflow. With GitHub Actions, you can deploy to any cloud, build containers, automate messages, and do so much more. Use any tool you…

MDMichelle DukeMichelle Duke·June 26, 2020SRE & Ops
Distributed — Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 26th, 2020 - High Scalability -

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 26th, 2020 - High Scalability -

Hey, it's HighScalability time! Line noise? Perl? Still uncertain? It's how you program a quantum computer. Silq. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Without your support on Patreon this kind of Stuff can't happen. You are that important to the fate of the smart and thoughtful world. Know someone who could benefit from understanding the cloud? Of course you do. I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 ju

HSHigh Scalability·June 26, 2020Distributed