Friday Issue Nr. 118 | 5/7/2024

How to choose JavaScript Runtime, Event Loop lag story, For CSS loads of how-to articles about colours, calculations, Container Queries, Cap Unit and unique 3D experiment. Also, one million checkboxes and Penpot are in this week's collection.

JavaScript News

JavaScript features 2024

Nicholas C. Zakas about Node.js, Deno and Bun.

https://newsletter.humanwhocodes.com/posts/human-who-codes-newsletter-node-js-deno-and-bun

Event Loop Lag

Fascinating story about performance issues and how it was fixed.

https://trigger.dev/blog/event-loop-lag

Use a framework to build React Native apps

https://reactnative.dev/blog/2024/06/25/use-a-framework-to-build-react-native-apps

Qwik 2.0 is coming soon

https://www.builder.io/blog/qwik-2-coming-soon

HTML & CSS News

How to calculate a contrast colours in CSS

CSS will probably have contrast-color() function in a few years, but is there something we can use already?

https://lea.verou.me/blog/2024/contrast-color/

How to compute cos(25deg) in CSS

https://www.bram.us/2024/07/01/computing-cos25deg-in-css/

How to use Container Queries with fallback (now)

https://web.dev/blog/how-to-use-container-queries-now

Morphing Arbitrary Paths in SVG

https://minus-ze.ro/posts/morphing-arbitrary-paths-in-svg/

While on paths and animations, there is an interesting example of Pure CSS Circular Text

https://frontendmasters.com/blog/pure-css-circular-text-without-requiring-a-monospace-font/

Amazing 3D CSS using scroll()

https://codepen.io/ivorjetski/pen/VwOraXv

Cap Unit example

https://ishadeed.com/article/css-cap-unit/

Is the CH unit harmful?

https://clagnut.com/blog/2432/

Mixed News

How people with disabilities use the web

https://www.w3.org/WAI/people-use-web/

Penpot

Looks like Figma is not the only choice for designing things.

https://penpot.app/

One Million Checkboxes

This reminds me of the early days of the internet and that website with a million pixels

https://onemillioncheckboxes.com/

Oh, that One Million Dollar homepage is still there, too 🙂

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

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