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Issue #126

September 1, 2014

Medium’s CSS is actually pretty f***ing good

Jacob Thornton
Medium’s CSS is actually pretty f***ing good

Jacob Thornton shares some notes on Medium’s CSS and the steps his team has taken to improve it.

Building For Performance and Resilience

Andy Hume
Building For Performance and Resilience

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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Learn Version Control with Git is a powerful step-by-step guide geared towards beginners. Git expert Tobias Günther will walk you through everything you need to know about Git from basic installation to branching and merging.

Articles & Tutorials

“Outside In” — Ordering CSS Properties by Importance

“Outside In” — Ordering CSS Properties by Importance

Guy Routledge

Guy 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

Minimising Font Downloads

Jake Archibald

Jake 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 Gasston

Peter Gasston explains how to interact with native CSS variables using JavaScript.

CSS `do-*`

David Walsh

David 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 Green

M. 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.

Tools

Card

Card is a handy plugin that will take any credit card form and make it better and more usable in one line of code.

Gridlover

Gridlover is a tool that will help you establish a typographic system with modular scale and vertical rhythm.

Inspiration

100 Followers Jelly Cake

Fabrizio Bianchi
100 Followers Jelly Cake

Fabrizio Bianchi created a delicious CSS-only cake to celebrate 100 followers on Codepen. Here’s to a hundred more!

Until Next Week

Happy coding,
Zoran Jambor

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