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🎆 "You can get excited about the future. The past won't mind." - Hillary DePiano

Happy New Year friends!

Gosh, this year was both the longest and the shortest year ever. Is time real? Who knows. Let’s go out with a bang!

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#228

December 27, 2021

🎿 "Do what you’re genuinely interested in and try to play to your natural strengths." - Jessica Livingston

Heyo friendos!

It’s good to be back in your inbox! As we approach the holidays in the next few weeks, I hope you can spend time with folks you care about, eat good food, and take a break.

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#227

December 20, 2021

🎀 "Only the mediocre are always at their best." - Jean Giraudoux

Helllloooo friends!

I hope you had a great week. Mine was good as I mostly caught up on chores and… played way too much Fortnite. Let’s go!

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#226

December 13, 2021

🍰 "Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet." - Sarah Louise Delany

Hey friends!

I hope your week was grand. Mine was a bittersweet one, as it was my last week at Netlify! I'm taking some time off before my next thing. Whew!

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#225

December 6, 2021

🦥 "Correction does much, but encouragement does more." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hello!

I hope your week was a good one! I got to see some family and ate a whole lot for Thanksgiving. Let's boogie.

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#224

November 29, 2021

🥑 "Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you." - Anne Lamott

Hey friends!

Happy Thanksgiving week to the Americans in here, and no matter where you’re from, I’m grateful for you! When the news is rough and the world is frustrating, it’s important to remember to be thankful for the good parts.

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#223

November 22, 2021

🛕 "Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen." - Taylor Swift

Ayyy wazzaaaap!

I hope you had a good week! Mine was full, but I’m taking some time off and am glad to have gotten a bunch done. Onwards!

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#222

November 15, 2021

🚇 "We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails." - Dolly Parton

Hello friends!

It's November! I hope your week was a good one. I got my COVID booster shot and I feel the 5G flowing through me.

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#221

November 8, 2021

🏰 "Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become." - Angelina Jolie

Happy Halloween!

I hope you all have some fun and spooky nights as we round out October. Time is flying by, I tell ya!

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#220

November 1, 2021

🛰 "What great changes have not been ambitious?" - Melinda Gates

Hey friends!

I hope you had a great week! I started exercising again for the first time since the pandemic started and… can’t say I’m a fan yet. Anyway, let’s go!

Web links of the week

What’s New in Gatsby 4
DOOM Rendered via Checkboxes
Elecrue
Candy Crush in React

#219

October 25, 2021

🪜 "Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore." - Leonard Cohen

Welcome back!

I hope your week was a good one. Mine was pretty swamped, but I had a great time speaking at a few events and podcasts. Onwards!

Web links of the week

The Autofill Dark Pattern
Jamstack Developers' Favorite Frameworks of 2021
Deprecation of jQuery Mobile
Myths about Web Accessibility

#218

October 18, 2021

🏙 "We were together. I forget the rest." - Walt Whitman

Helllooo friends!

I hope your week was a good one! Mine was fun and chaotic at Jamstack Conf (which I’ll talk more about later on). Let’s go!

Web links of the week

Drawing in CSS - Sci-Fi Art: A Vacuum From Space
How I Make CSS Art
Building a Tennis Trivia App With Next.js and Netlify
How to build an inline edit component in React
Conditional Border Radius In CSS

#217

October 11, 2021

⛲ "Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me." - Carol Burnett

Hey friends!

Can you believe it's October already? I can't. So spooky. Onwards!

Web links of the week

How To Build Your Own Mouseless Development Environment
ct.css – Let’s take a look inside your <head>
Creating the Perfect Commit in Git
What's new in React 18?

#216

October 4, 2021

🌼 "Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need." - Khalil Gibran

Hellllllllooooo!

I hope your week was a good one! I got to see a friend get married this past weekend, which was a blast. Onwards!

Web links of the week

How SPA architectures affect Core Web Vitals
7 Tips & tricks to make your console.log() output stand out
The Future of CSS: Cascade Layers
Electron 15.0.0 released

#215

September 27, 2021

🪝 "To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." - Thomas A. Edison

Hey friends!

I hope you had a good week! Mine was so fun, I got to see my coworkers in person! Fun stuff happened in the internet this week too. Let’s go!

Web links of the week

kbar
Material-UI is now MUI!
Intro to D3.js
Orchestrating Complexity With Web Animations API

#214

September 20, 2021

🥙 "All you can do is try to live your best life from day to day and move forward with gratitude." - Brian Clark

Hello hello!

I hope you had a good week! Mine was packed, and I’m particularly excited for this next one because I’m going to meet some of my coworkers for the first time this week.

Web links of the week

#213

September 13, 2021

🏗 "A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing." - William James

Hey friends!

Happy September! If you’ve got a long weekend this weekend, I hope you enjoy it. And if you don’t, well… enjoy it anyway! Let’s surf.

Web links of the week

On the <dl>
Accessibility from the Ground Up
Tree data structure in JavaScript
smartcrop.js: Content aware image cropping

#212

September 6, 2021

🏜 "Watching great people do what you love is a good way to start learning how to do it yourself." - Amy Poehler

Hello!

Very glad to be in your inbox today! I hope your week was a good one, and that you’re safe, happy, and healthy. Let’s check out what’s new around the internet!

Web links of the week

How to Use Promise.any()
React Webcam
Pushing Back Against Privacy Infringement On The Web
Static vs. Dynamic vs. Jamstack: Where’s The Line?

#211

August 30, 2021

📀 "Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying." - Nikki Giovanni

Hey friends!

What a week, what a week. Mine was full of podcast recordings, code, and meetings. Let’s goooo!

Web links of the week

Building a desktop application using Electron and Create React App
Star Rating: An SVG Solution
wavesurfer.js
LÖVR: An open source framework for rapidly building 3D experiences

#210

August 23, 2021

⛲️ "The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it." - Sydney J. Harris

Helllloooo!

I hope your week was a good one. I admit mine was pretty dang busy! The weather in Chicago has been beautiful lately at least. Anyway, let's boogie.

Web links of the week

MIDIVal library
Vue 3.2 Released!
A Visual Guide to React Rendering - Props
Stay alert

#209

August 16, 2021

🧺 "We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list." - Michelle Obama

Hello friends!

I hope you had a great week! I took some time off work to get unpacked in my new digs. Now let's unpack... the iiiiinternet!

Web links of the week

JavaScript Kid Pix
How MDN’s autocomplete search works
Building an Automated Screenshot Service on Netlify in ~140 Lines of Code
Slinkity

#208

August 9, 2021

📇 "Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable." - Janelle Monae

Hellloooo!

Can you believe it’s August already? My brain is not ready for this. But alas, time goes on. Let’s look at what happened this week!

Web links of the week

What I Wish I Knew About CSS When Starting Out As A Frontender
NFC comes to the web
Gatsby Serverless Functions And The International Space Station
New in Git: switch and restore

#207

August 2, 2021

📀 "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." - Pablo Picasso

Hey friends!

I hope you had a great week. I am in the thick of moving, surrounded by boxes as I type, which is both stressful and really exciting! Onwards!

Web links of the week

Plate: Build an editor with React and Slate
Code Zelda in JavaScript with Kaboom.js!
Integrating Eleventy with GitHub Flat Data
How To Make Raspberry Pi Night Vision Security Camera

#206

July 26, 2021

🦗 "The truth is, everyone's going to hurt you. You just have to find the ones worth suffering for." - Bob Marley

Wazzzaaaap!

I hope your week was a good one! I had a blast this weekend at Pokémon Go Fest and I'm riding that high through the week. Let's go!

Web links of the week

ISR vs DPR: Big Words, Quick Explanation
HTM (Hyperscript Tagged Markup)
WebAssembly from Scratch: From FizzBuzz to Doom
LiveKit: Open source real-time communication

#205

July 19, 2021

🧁 "To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work." - Mary Oliver

Hey friends!

Phew, what a week! I had a very very packed one full of meetings, podcast recordings, and prepping for moving. Let’s surf!

Web links of the week

Elementary Audio
When a Click is Not Just a Click
Breaking Down Bulky Builds With Netlify And Next.js
Creating a dynamic color converter with 11ty Serverless

#204

July 12, 2021

🎇 "Beautiful days do not come to you. You must walk towards them." - Rumi

Helllllooooo!

Happy 4th of July to the Americans out there, and happy "start of July" to everyone else! I hope you had a great week. I'm really glad to have a shorter one with the holiday, myself. Internet time!

Web links of the week

Browsers decode images differently
Code Generator for HTTP Requests
XO: JavaScript/TypeScript linter (ESLint wrapper) with great defaults
Saving data to Supabase and getting it back again

#203

July 5, 2021

🏉 "Strive to do better, but don’t beat yourself up for every shortcoming that you may have." - Stephanie Lahart

Hey friends!

I hope your week has been great. Mine was busy and full of playing with different frameworks that I don’t normally try. Let’s gooo!

Web links of the week

ES2021 Features List
Optical size, the hidden superpower of variable fonts
pica - high quality image resize in browser
lightGallery

#202

June 28, 2021

🛋 "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin

Helllooo!

I hope you had a good week! Mine was fun; it was full of talks and experimenting with code. To the fathers and father-figures out there, I hope you had a wonderful Father’s Day, and for our Black friends reading, I hope you had a great Juneteenth! Let’s boogie.

Web links of the week

Select Star SQL
An Introduction to Shaders
How To Use The Vite Build Tool with React
Benchmarking JavaScript Memory Usage
MathJax 3.2.0: Beautiful Math Rendering in All Browsers

#201

June 21, 2021

🛶 "There will always be enemies. Time to stop being your own." - Larry Kramer

Hello friends!

I have had a WHIRLWIND of a week, let me tell ya! I hope yours has been a good one too. Let's dig around cyberspace, shall we?

Web links of the week

Rust from a JavaScript perspective
Vue v3.1.0 Pluto
Astro: A New Architecture for the Modern Web
Flex Box Adventure

#200

June 14, 2021

🦞 "It is absolutely imperative that every human being's freedom and human rights are respected, all over the world." - Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir

Hey friends!

I hope your week was great! I enjoyed having a shorter work week with Memorial Day rolling in, and did a bunch of house work as well. Anyway, let's surf!

Web links of the week

jsonmatic – transform a CSV into a JSON
How to Memoize with React.useMemo()
Making JavaScript run fast on WebAssembly
RTL:WTF - Read the web like Right-to-Left readers do

#199

June 7, 2021

🤩 "Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful." - Thích Nhất Hạnh

Hello friends!

I hope you had a good week! Mind was full of speaking and… playing video games. Onwards!

Web links of the week

Temp API
Deep Dive into Rust for Node.js Developers
React API evolution
Gute

#198

May 31, 2021

🏏 "Don't be afraid - if you don't exercise your rights, you will lose them." - Maria Ressa

Hey friends!

I hope your week was lovely! Mine was super busy at work (we released things!) and I ended it with spending some time with vaccinated family. Let’s boogie!

Web links of the week

Rust: Are we game yet?
2D Optics Demos in JavaScript
Embedding Google Forms in a Static Site
DOM Events

#197

May 24, 2021

🐲 "Whoever laughs most, learns best." - John Cleese

Hey friends!

I hope you had a great week! I worked from Seattle this past week and visited vaccinated family and friends, and it was so nice. Anyway, surfin' time.

Web links of the week

How to Parse and Annotate PDFs in Node
Eva.js (Interactive Game Engine)
Design for reading: tips for optimizing content for Reader modes and reading apps
JWT should not be your default for sessions

#196

May 17, 2021

🎒 "The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one." - Malcolm Forbes

Helllloooo!

Happy Mother's Day to the moms, step-moms, pseudo-moms, aspiring moms, and future moms on this list, and to each of yours. I hope y'all had a good week! Mine was productive, and I'm excited for the next one. Onwards!

Web links of the week

How To Use Vibration API in Your Website
MapSCII - The Whole World In Your Console
How to Create Actions for Selected Text With the Selection API
Why Video Chat is a Hard Technical Problem

#195

May 10, 2021

🥟 "In a time of destruction, create something." - Maxine Hong Kingston

Hey friends!

I hope your week was a good one! Mine was fun and full of playing video games and playing with my Polywork profile! Let’s gooo!

Web links of the week

You Can Label a JavaScript if Statement
Portable apps with Go and Next.js
Google sheets Using React TypeScript
How to safely open-source internal software - Some best practices

#194

May 3, 2021

🫔 "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." - Chinese Proverb

Hello friends!

I hope your week was great! I was on vacation with family and it was really nice to take some time off. Onwards!

Web links of the week

Node.js available now
Inkline: Vue.js UI/UX Library
How to make an ineffective 404 page
Best practices for cookie notices

#193

April 26, 2021

🌦 "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hey friends!

I hope you had a wonderful week! I’m very excited about mine, I’m taking a vacation for the first time in a long time visiting family. Let’s surf!

Web links of the week

Using the Switch(true) Pattern in JavaScript
SVG Kaleidoscopic Glasses
5 ways to prevent code injection in JavaScript and Node.js
Jamstack SEO Guide

#192

April 19, 2021

☀️ "Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?" - Neltje Blanchan

Hello friends!

I hope your week was great. Mine was awesome because my sister got engaged this weekend! Let's boogie!

Web links of the week

GitExplorer
Cheetah Grid
Building a full-text search engine in 150 lines of Python code
Make Your Jest Tests up to 20% Faster by Changing a Single Setting
Alternative Tweet Embeds

#191

April 12, 2021

🐰 "To understand is to invent" - Jean Piaget

Hey friends!

I hope you had a lovely week, and Happy Easter to those who celebrate it! It’s been a busy one, again, but I am loving the nice weather we’ve been getting here in Chicago. Onwards!

Web links of the week

Human-Readable JavaScript: A Tale of Two Experts
How to create a screen reader accessible graph like Apple’s with D3.js
Dynamically Changing a Netlify Form Name
A Deep Dive Into Eleventy Static Site Generator

#190

April 5, 2021

🌸 "Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius." - An Wang

Hello friends!

I hope your week was awesome! I am so excited to be in your inbox today, because it is this newsletter’s FOURTH anniversary! I can’t believe it’s been this long, and I’m excited to keep this train chugging along. Also, happy Holi and Passover to those who celebrate them!

Web links of the week

Handling User Permissions in JavaScript
Colors are Math: How they match — and how to build a Color Picker
There’s no such thing as a website or web app that doesn’t need to be accessible
React Financial Charts

#189

March 29, 2021

🌛 "I never dreamed about success. I worked for it." - Estée Lauder

Hello friends!

I hope you had a great week! Mine was full of highs and lows, but one of the big highs was a release we did at work! Anyway, let’s boogie.

Web links of the week

Static Site Comments: A Jamstack How-To
A regular expression surprise in JavaScript
1 line of code
useEncapsulation

#188

March 22, 2021

🎨 "At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can." - Frida Kahlo

Hey friends!

What a week, what a week! Hard to believe it’s over an a new one is just begun. Let’s gooo!

Web links of the week

1 Line Layouts
useCountdown hook
Hybrids UI Library
How you can simplify your CSS with :is()

#187

March 15, 2021

🧭 "If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more." - Erica Jong

Hello friends!

I hope your week was great. Mine was chock-full of meetings, but I got a lot of work done! I can’t believe it’s March. One week down!

Web links of the week

Swiper
web-minecraft
Announcing Flutter 2
How to Map Mouse Position in CSS

#186

March 8, 2021

🦦 "Make a difference about something other than yourselves." - Toni Morrison

Hey friends!

I hope you had a wonderful week! Mine was full of meetings, BUT I managed to hit Inbox Zero! Let’s boogie.

Web links of the week

10 Years of Open-Source Visualization
Streams - The definitive guide
simple-keyboard
Glassmorphism CSS Generator

#185

March 1, 2021

🎿 "Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations." - Dr. Mae Jemison

Hello friends!

I hope your week was a fun one. Mine was packed with podcasts, a couple events, and meetings. Onwards!

Web links of the week

How to Use Websockets With Your Vue Projects
Announcing Vite 2.0
Web Frameworks: Why You Don’t Always Need Them
Neat CSS

#184

February 22, 2021

🖤 "To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live." - Dorothy West

Hey friends!

I hope you had a great week! Happy Valentine’s Day, President’s Day, and of course Black History Month. Let’s surf!

Web links of the week

A Better Way to Structure React Projects
My 12 Favorite VSCode Extensions
Tackling TypeScript
Exploring the Complexities of Width and Height in CSS

#183

February 15, 2021

📰 "Without struggle, there is no progress." - Frederick Douglass

Hellloooo everyone!

I hope your week was a good one! I enjoyed the Superb Owl this evening (I am sooo good at knowing sports) and have been busy with a bunch of projects in and out of work. Let's gooo!

Web links of the week

Build An Among Us Inspired Live-Multiplayer Game with Phaser 3 and Socket.io
Thinking in Jamstack
Don't use functions as callbacks unless they're designed for it
Why Scientists are Turning to Rust

#182

February 8, 2021

🐜 "The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness." - Michel de Montaigne

Hey friends!

I hope your week was sweet! At work we had our annual All Hands event, and so I had meetings allllll day long, allllll week long. It was tiring, but also great getting to know my coworkers more. Let's gooo!

Web links of the week

Re-Creating the Porky Pig Animation from Looney Tunes in CSS
Tutorial - Create generative social images using SVG
RunJS: A Playground for JavaScript and TypeScript
Are your Anchor Links Accessible?

#181

February 1, 2021

🎳 "Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters." - Margaret Peters

Hello friends!

I hope you had a good week. Mine was packed with meetings and I'm excited for the one ahead. Let's boogie!

Web links of the week

How to Control Hue Lights with JavaScript
Why Tailwind isn't for me
You should use React.memo more!
Creating comic book speech bubbles with SVG and JavaScript

#180

January 25, 2021

🗞 "If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan." - Jim Rohn

Helloooo!

Welcome back, friends. I hope you had a good week, mine was really busy, but productive. I also MCed the You Got This Conf yesterday, which was a wonderful time!

Web links of the week

Top Pens of 2020
Building Javascript Minecraft in 1 hour - React & Three.js Tutorial
Altair GraphQL Client
Advanced Promise Patterns: Promise Memoization

#179

January 18, 2021