Tim recently gave an excellent talk at FFConf. He mentioned this variation of Markdown, specifically for writing coding tutorials that update as you scroll. You can see it in action on his Generative Artistry site.
Kind of reminds of some of Bret Viktor’s work.
Damn, I wish I had thought of giving this answer to the prompt, “What is one thing people can do to make their website better?”
If you do nothing else, this will be a huge boost to your site in 2022.
Chris’s piece is a self-contained tutorial!
This is a great tutorial—I just love the interactive parts that really help make things click.
An intro to Stimulus, the lightweight JavaScript library from Basecamp that takes a progressive enhancement approach, as seen with HEY.
One aspect I really like about the approach Stimulus encourages, is I can focus on sending HTML down the wire to my users, which is then jazzed up a little with JavaScript.
I’ve always been a fan of using the first few milliseconds of a user’s attention getting what I have to share with them — in front of them. Then worrying setting up the interaction layer while the user can start processing what they’re seeing.
Furthermore, if the JavaScript were to fail for whatever reason, the user can still see the content and interact with it without JavaScript.
What a wonderfully in-depth and clear tutorial from Cassie on how she created the animation for her nifty SVG logo!
Also: Cassie is on the indie web now, writing on her own website—yay!
I like that this introduction to React doesn’t assume any knowledge (or desire) to create an entire app from scratch through command line invocations. Instead, here’s a clear explanation of how you can add React—which is, after all, some JavaScript—to an existing project. Oh, and you can write your CSS in CSS.
(Caveat: because everything’s happening in script elements in the browser, what’s outlined here will only do client-side rendering.)
Inside me there are two wolves. They’re both JavaScript.
DOM scripting and event handling.
The behaviour is more consistent now.
Two JavaScript frameworks—Svelte and Astro—share a philosophy, but take subtly different approaches.
Fixing a heisenbug with silence.