Flash is in the pan
Cameron counts the ways in which Flash was like a polyfill.
Yeah, that’s right: The Man In Blue is back!
Link archive: July 31st, 2017
The Evolution of Trust
Such a great primer on game theory—well worth half an hour of your time.
Shoelace.css: a back to the basics CSS starter kit
A starter kit of CSS that gives you some basic styles that you can tweak with custom properties.
For when you don’t need the whole boot.
Also:
Shoelace doesn’t ship with a grid system because you don’t need one. You should use the CSS Grid Layout instead.
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advanced-js-resources.md
Following on from that intro-level book on JavaScript, here’s a handy list of resources for learning more advanced JavaScript.
bpesquet/thejsway: The JavaScript Way book
This looks like a good introductory book to JavaScript, DOM scripting, and Ajax.
You can read it for free here or buy a DRM-free ebook.
Hello codebar Sydney! | Charlotte Jackson, Front-end developer
People of Sydney, you’re in luck. Charlotte is starting up a Sydney chapter of Codebar. If you know someone there who is under-represented in the tech industry, and they’re looking to learn how to code, please tell them about this.
Some want to become full-time developers, whereas others want to learn the basics of coding to enhance their current jobs. Some want to learn programming as a hobby. Whatever the reason, we’d love to see you there!
Also, if you’re a developer in Sydney, please consider becoming a tutor at Codebar.
I promise that tutoring is not scary! We ask that you let us know which areas you feel comfortable tutoring when you sign up, so you choose what you teach. It’s absolutely okay to not know answers during sessions, but knowing how to look for them is helpful.
Oh, and if you’ve got a space in Sydney that can accommodate a class, please, please consider become a Codebar sponsor.
Tooltips & Toggletips
Another great deep dive by Heydon into a single interface pattern. This time it’s the tooltip, and its cousin, the toggletip.
There’s some great accessibility advice in here.
rachelandrew/gridbugs: A curated list of Grid interop issues
Rachel is maintaining this (short) list of browser bugs with CSS Grid, inspired by the excellent Flexbugs.
Grid shipped into browsers](https://gridbyexample.com/browsers) in a highly interoperable state, however there are a few issues - let’s document any we find here.