Recent Notes

60+ ready-to-use UI blocks (tailblocks) with Tailwind CSS by Mert Cukuren. These blocks are fully responsive and include dark mode and colour options.

A formula based approach by Jesús Ricarte, using calc to figure out optimal line-height. This technique also helps with responsive typography.

Keyframes.app v2 is out after a complete rewrite. If you didn't know it's a free bundle of tools to generate & live preview different CSS properties, plus some other web development tools.

Ryan Irelan and Andrew Welch are doing a livestream tomorrow and covering their favorite localhosting tools. They're looking at Nitro, Valet, Docker, and more. They also promise to share strong opinions about which to use and why.

A 2 part Podcast from Mitchell at Solspace talking to the team at propublica.org and how they deal with large volumes of traffic on their Craft CMS website. Listen to parts one and two.

Build was a web design conference held in Belfast, Northern Ireland between 2009 and 2013. Their entire archive of talks are now available on both Vimeo and their new YouTube channel

Epic Games debuted a massive demo recently of the new Unreal Engine 5 which will be released next year. The demo was done on a Playstation 5 and their goal is to achieve photorealism on par with movie CG and real life