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🦔 Share target browsers between different front-end tools, like Autoprefixer, Stylelint and babel-preset-env

Autoprefixer is moving browser list handling to a separate plugin.

the whole idea of converting pixels to ems is pointless. Use ems where you need something to scale with the font size of the component, rems for something that scales with the base font-size and pixels where you need an absolute value that doesn’t depend on the font-size whatsoever etc. Different units have different purposes.

Lea Verou makes a good point.

The easiest way to create front-end style guides with Sass and Compass.

The most important thing for our components is the documentation. This defines the interface that applications can call the component with. It contains a set of fixtures to demonstrate how an application might call the component.

Helps you find the trains that arrive punctually and avoid those that are often delayed. See how much trains on your route are typically delayed by and plan accordingly.

`postcss-cssnext` has been deprecated in favor of `postcss-preset-env`.

:bomb: Lint CSS for browser support against caniuse database.

Why postprocessors are better than preprocessors. So there.

And dads, obviously.

PostCSS plugin to transform W3C CSS font variant properties to more compatible CSS (font-feature-settings)

PostCSS loader for webpack

Some excellent live examples.

Grid forms are dense forms designed for use in applications that require lots of data to be entered regularly. A tiny Javascript/CSS framework that helps you make forms on grids with ease.

An Open Source Design & Frontend Framework that serves as a foundation for internal business applications.

Good intro.

My third post about typography in sci-fi has been gestating for a while now...

All too often mobile forms make use of drop-down menus for input when simpler, more appropriate controls would work better. Here's a few alternatives.

Native select boxes are rubbish and I have the user research videos to prove it.

A next-generation code testing stack for JavaScript.

Unless you have been residing under a rock for the last month (and I’m starting to wish I had been) you’ll be aware of the impending EU VAT Place of Supply change. Much of the noise has been made by those businesses who will be forced into VAT Registration because of it, and rightly so. However, for those of us who are VAT Registered and so must update our systems to cope, the issues of implementation loom large.

Crucially, if you’re rendering templates to a Style Guide and you want it to be maintainable then they can’t just be identical to your application templates, they need to be the exact same templates. This is easier said than done.

In September I was introduced to Codeship at a presentation by Paul Love. These are some of the learnings I have from using their hosted service primarily for Continuous Integration for the last couple of weeks on a client project.

Coworking, shared & private offices in London

Anything that doesn’t make you happy or isn’t absolutely necessary should be touched, thanked and sent on its way, the bestselling Japanese author says

A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster.

Icon fonts have a few nasty problems that icon font makers rarely make you aware of. Here’s a few of these problems...

Via ttscoff.

Lo-Dash is a low-level utility library that offers consistency, customization, and performance.

...brings the hygienic macros of languages like Scheme and Rust to JavaScript.

Building an interactive accessible website is often thought of as a black art. A look at the learnings from building the Government's website, GOV.UK. I will talk about real world accessibility and practical tips and tools you can use today. Covering the mistakes and pitfalls we made building GOV.UK I will explain how to check to see how you are currently doing, and how accessibility isn't,as scary as you first thought.

Via ttscoff.

Seems I'm not the only person who's recorded the flyer guy. soundcloud.com/london-sound-s…

I walk past the "drum and bass, dub" flyer guy in a different London location every few months. Always makes my day. soundcloud.com/ohskylab/drum-…

tl;dr: unless all dependencies use the same module format, dependency tree of depth > 1 is so painful nobody does it. Nobody agrees on a solution to this problem. We are all fucked.