The State of CSS 2019 — The results from the first ever State of CSS survey, with details on what CSS features and tools are favoured by over 10,000 developers. It's worth digging into the data here to gain an awareness of what people are using in practice as CSS evolves.

Sacha Greif & Raphaël Benitte

How to Section Your HTML — A valuable deep-dive into HTML’s various semantic sectioning elements (such as <nav>, <section> and <aside>) with pointers on when it's appropriate to use them, and how. Worth bookmarking for future reference.

Daniel Tonon

⚛️ The NEW Complete Intro to React...Now, with Hooks — Much more than an intro, you’ll build a real-world app with the latest features in React including 🎣 hooks, effects, context, and portals.

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A Gentle Introduction to Web Components — Web Components (aka, custom elements) allow you to implement reusable components with only HTML, CSS and JS. Here’s how to build your first, and how to use them in your apps.

Robin Wieruch

Introducing a 'New' HTML Element - Welcome <clippy> — Tongue-in-cheek title aside, here's a critique of Google’s recent approach to the introduction of a new HTML element (seemingly skipping standards approval), namely the <toast> notification element. Jen Simmons also weighed in on this.

Terence Eden

The Layout Instability API — You know that annoying thing when a page jumps around during load? This API aims to address the 'rendering jank' issue. Here’s an intro to the API, its key concepts, and how you can use it.

Philip Walton

JavaScript / React Performance Optimization Engineer - Exodus (Remote) — Exodus are looking for an obsessive engineer to work on improving the performance of the Exodus desktop application.

Exodus

Senior Software Engineer (Santa Barbara or Remote) — Join a team where everyone is striving to constantly improve their knowledge of software development tools, practices, and processes.

Invoca

Land a New Dev Job on Vettery — Vettery specializes in tech roles and is completely free for job seekers.

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Microfrontends: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly — Frontend Twitter was recently abuzz with chatter about ‘microfrontends’, an approach to building frontend apps modelled off of microservices. Here’s a look at the pros and cons of such an approach.

Kevin Ball

CSS Scroll Snap Updated in Firefox 68 — Firefox 68, due next month, will ship with an updated CSS Scroll Snap specification (the same version as Chrome and Safari). Now, scroll snapping will work in the same way across all browsers that implement it.

Rachel Andrew (Mozilla)

Everything You Need to Know About Date in JavaScript — Runs through what you need to know about the Date object.

Zell Liew

Chromium and The Browser Monoculture Problem — Following Microsoft’s move to Chromium, chatter around a re-emerging browser monoculture has flared up. Ken puts forward one possible solution.

Ken Bellows

5 Keys to Accessible Web Typography — A solid introduction to the basics and best practices of accessible web typography.

Matej Latin

The CSS Mindset — Outlines the ‘ideas behind the language’ that you need to know in order to write good CSS.

Max Böck

Useful Tools and Techniques to Minify Your CSS

Peter Ekene Eze

Manifold Launches Marketplace-as-a-Service

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Chrome 76 Beta: Dark Mode, Payments, PWA Features & More

Google

Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 85

Jon Davis (WebKit)

Animated CSS and JS 'Matrix' Digital Rain — No need for a red pill to see this neat demo.

Yuan Chuan

Automate Your Outgoing Webmentions — A platform agnostic service that will check a given URL for links to other sites, discover if they support webmentions, then send a webmention to the target. Here’s the related blog post.

Remy Sharp

Relearn CSS Layout: Every Layout — A growing resource to help you learn (or relearn) CSS layout, using simple components (primitives) and a compositional approach.

Heydon Pickering & Andy Bell

Full User-Experience Monitoring with Datadog Synthetics — Datadog’s AI-powered Browser Tests can be created in minutes and update themselves. Try it for free.

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CSS Wand — A collection of customizable CSS styles and animations that can be easily copy and pasted into your project.

Oliver Gomes