This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Marco Biedermann

Welcome to my Weekly Digest #17 which is the first one for May.

This weekly digest contains a lot of interesting and inspiring articles, videos, tweets, podcasts, and designs I consumed during this week.

 

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Interesting articles to read

CSS Hell

Collection of common CSS mistakes, and how to fix them.

CSS Hell - To Hell with bad CSS!

Faster builds for large sites on Netlify with On-demand Builders

Learn how On-demand Builders improve build times for large sites on Netlify. They help the Jamstack support larger websites and more dynamic apps across any JavaScript framework.

Get Faster Builds for Large Sites on Netlify: On-demand Builders

What Questions Should You Ask in a Software Engineer Interview?

Often, we focus on acing the interview; however, we need to remember that the process is a two-way street.

What Questions Should You Ask in a Software Engineer Interview?

JavaScript Temporal API- A Fix for the Date API

JavaScript has a bad date handling API because the Date object implementation was copied directly from Java’s Date Class. Java maintainers eventually deprecated many of Date class methods and created the Calendar Class in 1997 to replace it.

JavaScript Temporal API- A Fix for the Date API

Some great videos I watched this week

Console is more than just log!

We're going to cover console.count, assert, table, time, group and trace.

by Leigh Halliday

CSS Container Queries Polyfill

by LevelUpTuts

Sass in 100 Seconds

Learn the basics of Sass (SCSS) or syntactically awesome stylesheets. Sass is a language and compiler the can make your CSS code more efficient and programmatic

by Fireship

Let’s defer generating 400+ pages in our build using Eleventy Cloud and On-demand Builders

by Zach Leatherman

Using Context to Build a Light/Dark Theme

In this lesson, we'll leverage context and hooks to build a global light/dark theme in our app.

by React Native School

Is This The Best JavaScript Extension?

Quokka.js is an extension available for multiple editors that allows you to write JavaScript code on a scratchpad. This scratchpad will auto-update whenever you make changes which makes it the perfect tool for learning, writing, or debugging code. I highly recommend you give it a shot.

by Web Dev Simplified

Useful GitHub repositories

Design Resources for Developers

A curated list of design and UI resources from stock photos, web templates, CSS frameworks, UI libraries, tools, and much more

React Navigation 5

Routing and navigation for your React Native apps

The Algorithms - Python

All Algorithms implemented in Python

dribbble shots

Job Finder App

by Andri

Crypter® – NFT marketplace

by Tran Mau Tri Tam

Educora - Web UI Kit

by Yousuf Saymon

Learner app

by Asish Sunny

Delivery Food Mobile Apps

by Indah Ratna Sari

Tweets

StackBlitz

@stackblitz

Browsers are awesome! (3):

`<input type="file">` permits a user to select only a single file at a time... but that's only its default behavior!

You can also allow selecting multiple files, and even specify the supported file types!
Just add `multiple` and `accept` attributes:

14:18 PM - 26 Apr 2021

?Julia Evans?

@b0rk

I just learned that there's a terminal version of Wireshark called termshark?!?!?! this is incredible termshark.io

13:55 PM - 27 Apr 2021

Addy Osmani

@addyosmani

? Introducing "Image Optimization": a fresh 528 page Print + eBook on modern formats, compression, automation and more: bit.ly/smashing-images ?️

2+ years in the making. With thanks to @smashingmag, @colinbendell, @ari4nne, @bibydigital, @jonsneyers & countless others :)

15:41 PM - 28 Apr 2021

GitHub

@github

Something changed? No worries - we've just made it a bit easier to view a single file in history.

19:30 PM - 30 Apr 2021

Josh W. Comeau

@joshwcomeau

My CSS course features a nifty tool that helps you find the perfect font-size value for fluid headings.

I used to solve this through trial-and-error with semi-random numbers. Now I have a system for it ?

(Context in the tweets below! ?)

17:41 PM - 30 Apr 2021

Tomek Sułkowski

@sulco

The `gap` CSS property is a convenient way to set the spacing between not only the grid but also flex items!

And now, with the just-released Safari 14.1, you can use it in every major browser! ?

12:52 PM - 30 Apr 2021

Addy Osmani

@addyosmani

The <img> element now supports lazy-loading, async decoding and many other features: bit.ly/img-cwv I wrote about how to optimize UX & the Core Web Vitals with it.

07:25 AM - 30 Apr 2021

Picked Pens

iPhone 12 purple

by Mina

Apple Keynote animation

by Louis Hoebregts

Make the web less boring

by Andy Bell

Peter's Blinds with CSS

by Jhey

Podcasts worth listening

Kent C. Dodds - Software Engineer Educator at Kent C. Dodds Tech

Kent goes through his journey from full-time software engineer to full-time SE educator, the mindset of a junior dev, ways to solidify one's knowledge, and best ways to get a job.

Hasty Treat - Git Rebase Explained

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about Git Rebase — what it is and how and when to use it!

The CSS Podcast - @font-face

In this episode, Una and Adam talk about font adjustments when being used within @font-face. When fonts are loaded, there's an opportunity to provide default values and fine-tunings.

TypeScript Fundamentals — Getting a Bit Deeper

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes continue their discussion of TypeScript Fundamentals with a deeper diver into more advanced use cases.

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This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Marco Biedermann