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  • paulirish/lite-youtube-embed: A faster youtube embed.

    2019-12-30

    Faster, lighter, more private YouTube embed

  • Creating Voice Skills For Google Assistant And Amazon Alexa

    2019-12-28

    Great overview of voice assistants and how to get started developing for them.

  • Building an accessible show/hide disclosure component with vanilla JS

    2019-12-27

    A thorough walk through of how to make an accessible drop-down / accordion type component. Great and simple accessibility knowledge.

  • Making a Better Custom Select Element ◆ 24 ways

    2019-12-26

    Good overview of how and why to create an accessible custom, filterable select element. With some good accessibility knowledge/tips too.

  • Microbrowsers Are Everywhere

    2019-12-26

    Really useful article on how to make sharing of your web pages work nicely across things like messenger platforms that use “micro browsers” to make previews of your pages.

  • Error handing when using the vanilla JS fetch() method with async and await

    2019-12-26

    Good article that gives tips on using fetch() with async/await and adding error handling

  • How tracking pixels work – Julia Evans

    2019-12-23

    Interesting, slightly-technical summary of how website tracking works, from @b0rk

  • 99% Invisible

    2019-12-23

    I LOVED this episode of 99PI that touched on Chatbots, AI, Eliza (one of my first major programming projects), psychology, ethics, computer science, Turing tests, neural networks, Google Duplex. A must-listen for beautiful nerds.

  • 500+ CSS Icons, Customizable, Retina Ready & API

    2019-12-23

    Pure CSS icons. Why has no one thought of this before? via @heydesigner

  • H O M E – dona b drawings – architectural illustrator

    2019-12-20

    Lovely local architectural illustrations and fun products. Includes Magic Roundabout!

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