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Howdy folks, co-founder of @CodePen here. 🤘
Why would you, fellow front-end designer & developer, want a CodePen account?
Well it’s my job to make sure that has a clear answer, so I’m gonna thread 🧵 it up for ya to explore and understand.
Chris Coyier
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Chris Coyier
@chriscoyier
Co-founder @CodePen. Podcasts @ShopTalkShow.
Ran CSS-Tricks 2007-2022.
I like it when you like things.
- I'm just extremely confused. Like the INTERNET COMPANY Google. The CLOUD SERVICES PROVIDER Google. The company who's success partially rests on us trusting them to DO THE WORLD WIDE WEB GOOD. Is like... domain names? Not for us. We're gonna let this WYSIWYG CMS handle that.
- my bank on phone: we need to verify your identity. me: ok bank: we’re going to text you a secret code. me: ok bank: what’s your number? me: i think i’ve identified a small loophole in your security
- hey mom that dumb website i started in your basement now has half a million twitter followers.
- Write the article you wish you found when you googled something.
- who called it a front-end dev and not a diveloper
- I used to be all like console.log("myVariable: ", myVariable); and now I be all like console.log({ myVariable }); cuz DevTools automatically logs it with the name then.
- I’d watch a documentary series of developers giving a tour of their codebases.
- You know like when your parents ask you a technology question and you don’t know the answer but you figure out and fix the problem anyway through troubleshooting? That’s why you should apply to basically any job you want.
- Very clever CSS trickery here from Carter Li. If you declare a CSS Custom Property as an <integer>, then it can be interpolated as an integer. Meaning it can be animated! css-tricks.com/animating-numb…
00:00 - LOOK. This is just a regular ol' website. No JavaScript whatsoever. Navigation pages with clicks <a> links to other HTML pages. The most basic website in the world. Yet, with a few lines of code to activate View Transitions, KAPOW.
00:00 - hey ive been a little busy this week ive started a new role in support
- CSS is the hardest language. 9 out of 10 tweets say so.
