When you’re designing with HTML5 or CSS, you’ll often see quite a lot of talk of templates. Indeed, designing on templates (as well as via low-code builders) is becoming so common that it’s been recommended to some professional designers to create templates themselves to maintain business. As…
"Prefer readability over premature optimization" is a popular developer mantra, but the mantra also implies that the two are mutually exclusive. Does this assumption actually hold true when we are dealing with hard-to-parse one-liners?…
Should I be sorting heap objects by distance, shallow size, or retained size? JavsScript memory is managed automatically, meaning the JS engine's garbage collector releases heap memory automatically when they are no longer in use.…
Just as the disabled HTML attributes can affect an element's interactivity, there are a number of CSS properties that handle more than styling. Following the Rule of Least Power, we should look for HTML and CSS solutions before reaching for a pure JS one.…
The short answer is no, as long as you are only using negative CSS margins to bring elements closer together than their box model properties would allow.…
In this post, I'll go over various HTML and CSS-based methods for creating line breaks in your text, as well as methods for breaking up words to achieve the right typeset.…
In this post, I'll go over 4 methods of style updates using Javascript and their use cases. We'll also consider each method's usefulness in terms of its CSS Complexity. That is, how easy is it to understand and modify.…
Learning about the Zeigarnik Effect and how it shapes my mental capacity has been a productivity and mental health game-changer.…