Interesting Links (by date)
This page is a bunch of links I got from various newsletters and assorted sources that I think are interesting. New links are added as I find them, hopefully ordered by date.
May 2024
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Programming mantras are proverbs
An interesting way to think about programming mantras. The short of it is, you shouldn't just follow the rules without thinking about why you're doing it. Otherwise, you might as well be a generative AI. -
The New !important
An interesting way to manipulate specificity in CSS. using:not
, you can add a hook to "undo" styling. -
Bear Blog
It's not for me personally, but a free (privacy-conscious) website service is always handy. -
Free for Developers
An index of free resources for development, including some free BaaS and hosting services.
April 2024
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What's new in Astro - March 2024
Contains links to some interesting tutorials concering the new Astro DB, including: - Waku; a nice minimalistic SSG, like Next.js but a lot smaller.
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Modern CSS patterns in Campfire
A bunch of nice illustrations on ways to use modern CSS. -
Wedges
Although I don't use React too much, this looks like a nice component library. MIT licensed. -
Front End Developer/Engineer Handbook 2024
A nice (and extremely extensive) list of front-end technologies and paradigms to check. By FrontendMasters.
Before april 2024 (genesis)
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100 things you can do on your personal website
Self-explanatory but contains some pretty cool things I hadn't thought of. This article is one of the things that inspired me to make this list, actually. -
Flavio's list of sample Web App Ideas
Flavio generally makes pretty good articles and sites, and this one has a bunch of nice ideas that seem both interesting and do-able as small projects to test new libraries and frameworks. -
No Maintenance Intended
A badge for open source projects which are provided as-is. Will probably be using this. -
MAGICK.CSS (src)
A classless CSS framework that's styled after LaTeX documents (among others) and looks like a scientific document. Pretty cool. -
Bootswatch
A pretty old resource, with open source Bootstrap themes. People keep saying all Bootstrap sites look the same, but I think these themes show that you can pretty easily customize Bootstrap to look different. -
Foundation templates & Building Block Kits
I don't use Foundation itself, but these templates provide a general structure that's actually pretty easy to translate into any other CSS framework.