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 | | 🎄🗓️ Frontend Advent Calendars 
It's that time of year! Developers a-plenty are penning lots of webdev-related articles as part of Christmas content advent calendars. We'll be featuring many of them here over the coming week's but for those of you seeking daily drops of developer-focused reads, here's where to find them: | 
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🗓️ The HTMHell Advent Calendar, helmed by Manuel Matuzović, once again returns for 2024 bringing together a daily article focusing on HTML, along with related security, assessibility, UX topics and more.
📋 The CSS Advent Calendar is a rather traditional looking calendar, complete with festive doors. Behind each one you'll find a brief snippet on a certain CSS feature, along with links out to learn more.
🏎️ The annual Web Performance Calendar is a great returning resource for numerous articles on measuring, monitoring and optimizing all things web performance. Speed geeks, this one is for you. | 
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There's plenty of other themed calendars across a variety of disciplines, including of course the puzzling Advent of Code. If you're after more like this Adrian Roselli has a great round-up. | 
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 | 📙 Tutorials, Articles & Opinion | 
 | The Lowdown on Dropdowns in HTML & CSS — If you’re trying to reveal content from user interaction David proclaims that “you should read this”, encouraging us to put down that JavaScript and check out new and upcoming HTML/CSS features to help us do the job. David Darnes  | 
 | Frosted Glass from Games to the Web — A UI games developer (who worked on the Forza series) shares the process of translating in-game ‘frosted acrylic’ design elements to HTML. The end result is nice! backdrop-filterdoes the heavy lifting here. Tyler Wolf Leonhardt  | 
 | Creating Effective Multi-Step Forms — Looks at the design considerations for good-form experiences, beyond just validation — specifically on forms that involve navigation between sections. Amejimaobari Ollornwi  | 
 | 🔧  Code, Tools & Resources | 
 | uifonts.app: Test and Preview Fonts in Real Time — The fonts, sourced from Google Fonts, are displayed on real UI elements on the page. You can select a primary and secondary font or hit the ‘random’ button to preview random font pairings. uifonts․app  | 
 | | 🎹 STRICH: Add blazing fast and reliable 1D/2D Barcode Scanning to your web apps. Free demo app and 30-day trial available. 
 💛 JavaScript Weekly is our email digest on all things JavaScript. We send a round-up of the latest news, tutorials, and tools every Thursday. | 
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