Notes
Over the years I’ve published a dev notes — some more noteworthy than others.
Here are some of my personal favorites. I hope you find something useful among them.
A palette → semantic → component architecture for CSS custom properties. The rules behind the system, not just the tokens.
Read this article →Global border-box is sold as a layout fix, but the downsides are real — and "just document it" doesn't save you when nobody reads docs until something breaks.
Read this article →A lightweight translate helper that keeps translations co-located with the code that uses them, with no external files or key lookups.
Read this article →Stop guessing z-index values. Define named layers once and never debug stacking order again.
Read this article →Sets and maps are data structures in JavaScript that allow you to store and manipulate collections of data. In this article, we'll explore the basics of sets and maps, and some common use cases for each.
Read this article →Getters and setters are used to define object properties that have custom logic for getting and setting their values in JavaScript.
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