Medium’s CSS is actually pretty f***ing good
Jacob Thornton
Jacob Thornton shares some notes on Medium’s CSS and the steps his team has taken to improve it.
Issue #126
Building For Performance and Resilience
Andy Hume
This talk by Andy Hume is focused on architecting high performance, resilient front-ends. It may not be strictly CSS oriented, but I’m fairly certain you’ll find it useful nevertheless.
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Articles & Tutorials
“Outside In” — Ordering CSS Properties by Importance
Guy RoutledgeGuy Routledge suggests to order your CSS properties starting with big-picture properties which impact stuff outside the element and work in towards the finer details.
Minimising Font Downloads
Jake ArchibaldJake Archibald shows an easy solution for optimising font downloads. Unfortunately, browser support for this technique is not great (yet).
CSS Variables: Access Custom Properties with JavaScript
Peter GasstonPeter Gasston explains how to interact with native CSS variables using JavaScript.
CSS `do-*`
David WalshDavid Walsh explains the advantages of using a system by which you add a do- (or js-) prefix to any CSS class that is implemented solely for the sake of JavaScript functionality.
5 Ways to Improve Your Sass with Bourbon
M. David GreenM. David Green looks at 5 great features of the Bourbon library of Sass mixins that can help improve your workflow in dealing with repetitive code.
Inspiration
100 Followers Jelly Cake
Fabrizio Bianchi
Fabrizio Bianchi created a delicious CSS-only cake to celebrate 100 followers on Codepen. Here’s to a hundred more!