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#201: Doing Booping Dec 21, 2020

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Joshua Comeau crowd-coined the term “boop” (high five, Adam Kuhn). These are sorta like hover/focus states, except that they aren’t. Your thingies — things like links, buttons, etc. — should still have those states. A “boop” is a more …

#200: Scroll to Zoom Dec 10, 2020

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Fair warning: you aren’t going to need this every day! I just happened to be looking at a neat little SVG warping tool that had a feature where my mouse scroll wheel (or trackpad) could be used to zoom the …

#199: Messing with JSX Dec 09, 2020

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I probably should have learned this long ago, but alas, here we are. Turns out you can tell what function you want JSX to use. Yep, JSX really only has one primary transformation that it does. It turns angle brackets …

#198: About the Position Property Nov 20, 2020

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static: the default
relative: allows you to nudge around with top/right/bottom/left, making z-index work, gives you a positioning context
absolute: top/right/bottom/left moves the element

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#197: A Look at Stackbit and Stackbit Studio Nov 02, 2020

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The Stackbit app helps you kick out a new Jamstack site very quickly. Pick a theme, a static site generator, and a CMS and it’ll get a repo going for you on the double. Stackbit has gotten much more powerful …

#196: Learning Grid & Flexbox with Kyle Simpson Oct 30, 2020

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Kyle is a JavaScript guy. He knows a ton about the web, and plenty about CSS too, but isn’t as up-to-date on modern CSS layout tools like flexbox and grid. We didn’t go from 0 to 100 here, but …

#195: How to Draw a Line with CSS Sep 25, 2020

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Stupid simple, right? It is! But it’s fun to think about for a few minutes and count a bunch of different ways we could do it. And what do I mean by a line anyway? We’ll mostly talk about a …

#194: Jetpack’s Social Integration Sep 24, 2020

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Jetpack can help automate your site’s social media.

It’s a pretty small feature compared to all the huge stuff Jetpack can do, like improve your site’s search, back it up, and protect it. But it’s a …

#193: Scully: the SSG for Angular Sep 23, 2020

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Tara Z. Manicsic joined me for this video, setting up the very basics of Scully, which is a Static Site Generator for Angular — nay, the SSG for Angular, as Tara pointed out to me.

I don’t know much Angular …

#192: Git Tricks for Getting Yourself Out of Trouble Sep 14, 2020

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As amazing as Git is for handling your source code, you can certain git (lol) yourself into trouble. What if you make a change to a file and you want to get rid of the change? What if you just …

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