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Frontend Dogma @frontenddogma.com · 1h

UTF-8 Is a Brilliant Design, by @[email protected]:

https://iamvishnu.com/posts/utf8-is-brilliant-design

#encoding #unicode

UTF-8 is a Brilliant Design — Vishnu's Pages

Exploring the brilliant design of UTF-8 encoding system that represents millions of characters while being backward compatible with ASCII

iamvishnu.com

Frontend Dogma @frontenddogma.com · 1h

Avoid These AI Coding Mistakes, by @ianvanagas.bsky.social:

https://newsletter.posthog.com/p/avoid-these-ai-coding-mistakes

#ai #mistakes

Avoid these AI coding mistakes

The mistakes we've made at PostHog and how to avoid them

newsletter.posthog.com

Frontend Dogma @frontenddogma.com · 1h

Numbers That Fall (Scroll-Driven Animations and Sibling Index), by @[email protected] (@frontendmasters.com):

https://frontendmasters.com/blog/numbers-that-fall-scroll-driven-animations-sibling-index/

#css #html #animations #scrolling #effects

Numbers That Fall (Scroll-Driven Animations & Sibling Index)

With view() style scroll-driven animations, it's helpful to think about how you want it to work then tweak the ranges toward that goal.

frontendmasters.com

Frontend Dogma @frontenddogma.com · 13h

How OpenJS-Hosted Projects Benefit From Security Support, by @[email protected]:

https://openjsf.org/blog/security-support-for-openjs-projects

#hosting #security #foss

How OpenJS Hosted Projects Benefit from Security Support | OpenJS Foundation

Providing Hosted Projects with the Tools and Guidance to Manage Security Confidently

openjsf.org

Frontend Dogma @frontenddogma.com · 13h

What’s New in View Transitions (2025 Update), by @[email protected] (@[email protected]):

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/view-transitions-in-2025

#css #viewtransitions #support

What's new in view transitions (2025 update) | Blog | Chrome for Developers

An overview of what changed for View Transitions in 2025

developer.chrome.com

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Frontend Dogma @frontenddogma.com · 13h

I Completed an IT Degree… What’s Accessibility?, by @[email protected]:

https://intopia.digital/articles/i-completed-an-it-degree-whats-accessibility/

#accessibility #career

I completed an IT degree… What’s accessibility? - Intopia

Accessibility still hasn’t found its place in the ‘formal curriculum requirements’ of most institutions. So how do you learn about it?

intopia.digital

Frontend Dogma @frontenddogma.com · 17h

What the 2025 DORA Report Means for Your AI Strategy, by @lauratacho.com:

https://newsletter.getdx.com/p/2025-dora-report-means-for-your-ai-strategy?publication_id=996688&post_id=175552839&isFreemail=true&r=edcfi&triedRedirect=true

#devops #metrics #ai #strategies #processes

What the 2025 DORA Report means for your AI strategy

AI amplifies bad practices, real gains come from focusing AI efforts on systems, and success depends on strong change management.

newsletter.getdx.com

Frontend Dogma @frontenddogma.com · 17h

To AI or Not to AI, by @[email protected]:

https://antropia.studio/blog/to-ai-or-not-to-ai/

#ai #experiments #monetization #facebookmeta

To AI or not to AI

A two-week experiment building an app with full AI assistance, exploring both the promise and frustrations of LLM-based development workflows.

antropia.studio

Frontend Dogma @frontenddogma.com · 17h

ADA Title II and PDFs: Fix, Archive, or Delete?, by @[email protected]:

https://afixt.com/ada-title-ii-and-pdfs-fix-archive-or-delete/

#accessibility #ada #compliance #pdf

ADA Title II and PDFs: Fix, Archive, or Delete? - AFixt

Imagine you work for a state government agency. Over the years, your department has diligently published reports, meeting minutes, forms, budget documents, and countless other materials as PDFs. A quick inventory shows thousands of them – some from last week, others dating back more than a decade…

afixt.com

Frontend Dogma @frontenddogma.com · 1d

Accessibility Testing Comparison: Automated Testing vs. Human Auditing vs. Usability Testing, by @[email protected]:

https://intopia.digital/articles/accessibility-testing-comparison/

#accessibility #usability #testing #auditing #automation

Accessibility Testing Comparison: Automated Testing vs Human Auditing vs Usability Testing - Intopia

Compare the strengths and weaknesses of the accessibility testing methods you’re using: Automated testing, Audit by expert testers, and Usability testing.

intopia.digital

Frontend Dogma @frontenddogma.com · 1d

The Politics of AI: We’ll Need More Sustainability, Community, and Democracy, by @[email protected]:

https://hidde.blog/ai-politics/

#ai #sustainability #economics #community

The politics of AI: we'll need more sustainability, community and democracy

Last week I attended a symposium called ”The Politics of AI: governance, resistance, alternatives” at Goldsmiths in London. In this post, I will share some takeaways.

hidde.blog

Frontend Dogma @frontenddogma.com · 1d

The “corner-shape” CSS Property Is Amazing, by @[email protected] (@[email protected]):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKcrTBjmOio

#videos #css #shapes

Start Using the corner-shape CSS Property Today

A brief look at the new corner-shape CSS property, which lets you easily create interesting and creative border effects.Demo: https://codepen.io/ZoranJambor/...

www.youtube.com

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Frontend Dogma @frontenddogma.com · 1d

This Website Has No Class, by @[email protected]:

https://aaadaaam.com/notes/no-class/

#css #selectors #webcomponents

This website has no class | Adam Stoddard

Going “full CSS Zen Garden” with modern CSS.

aaadaaam.com

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Frontend Dogma @frontenddogma.com · 1d

WCAG’s Longevity, by @[email protected]:

https://yatil.net/blog/wcags-longevity

#accessibility #wcag #standards

WCAG’s Longevity · Eric Eggert

It’s no secret: I like the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Not only do they give us the four base principles of accessibility …

yatil.net

Frontend Dogma @frontenddogma.com · 1d

Lowriders and Websites, by @[email protected]:

https://aaadaaam.com/notes/lowriders-and-websites/

#css #html #craft

Lowriders & websites | Adam Stoddard

The case for investing in things that “don‘t really matter”.

aaadaaam.com

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Frontend Dogma @frontenddogma.com · 1d

Polypane 26: Accurate Device Emulation With Safe Area and Small Viewport Units, by @polypane.app:

https://polypane.app/blog/polypane-26-accurate-device-emulation-with-safe-area-and-small-viewport-units/

#releasenotes #polypane #browsers

Polypane 26: Accurate device emulation with safe area and small viewport units | Polypane

Polypane 26 brings the most accurate device emulation available anywhere. We now emulate small viewport units (svh) and device-specific safe area insets, two…

polypane.app

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Frontend Dogma @frontenddogma.com · 1d

Instrumenting the Node.js Event Loop With eBPF, by @[email protected]:

https://coroot.com/blog/instrumenting-the-node-js-event-loop-with-ebpf/

#nodejs #eventloop #events

Instrumenting the Node.js event loop with eBPF

Recently, I was testing Coroot’s AI Root Cause Analysis on failure scenarios from the OpenTelemetry demo. One of them, loadgeneratorFloodHomepage, simulates a flood of excessive requests. As expected, it caused a latency degradation across the stack. Coroot’s RCA highlighted how the latency casca…

coroot.com

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Frontend Dogma @frontenddogma.com · 2d

“forced-color-adjust: none” Is an Unavoidable Foot Gun, by @codingchaos.bsky.social:

https://sarahmhigley.com/writing/forced-color-adjust-none/

#css #colors #contrast #accessibility

forced-color-adjust: none is an unavoidable foot gun | Sarah Higley

A very long treatise on why text backplates were a bad idea. Most of the time.

sarahmhigley.com

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Frontend Dogma @frontenddogma.com · 2d

How to Be a Leader When the Vibes Are Off, by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):

https://chaoticgood.management/how-to-be-a-leader-when-the-vibes-are-off/

#leadership #ai #culture #economics

How to Be a Leader When the Vibes Are Off

...and the vibes are definitely off It feels different in tech right now. We’re coming off a long era where optimism carried the industry. Something has curdled. AI hype, return-to-office mandates, and continued layoffs have shifted the mood. Managers are quicker to fire, existential dread has…

chaoticgood.management

Frontend Dogma @frontenddogma.com · 2d

How to Optimize Viewport for Mobile for Faster Interactions, by @debugbear.com:

https://www.debugbear.com/blog/optimize-viewport-for-mobile

#howtos #viewport #mobile #performance #optimization

How to Optimize Viewport for Mobile for Faster Interactions | DebugBear

Optimize viewport for mobile for faster interactions is a new Lighthouse performance insight that helps you detect viewports that are not optimized for mobile.

www.debugbear.com

Frontend Dogma @frontenddogma.com · 2d

Digital Accessibility: Start Now, Don’t Wait, by @[email protected]:

https://www.dennisdeacon.com/web/accessibility/digital-accessibility-start-now-dont-wait/

#accessibility

Digital Accessibility: Start Now, Don’t Wait - Dennis Deacon

Don’t wait for executive approval or vendor budgets, start improving digital accessibility now with low-cost fixes like alt text, semantic markup, and color contrast.

www.dennisdeacon.com

Frontend Dogma @frontenddogma.com · 2d

What’s Coming in ESLint v10.0.0, by @[email protected] (@[email protected]):

https://eslint.org/blog/2025/10/whats-coming-in-eslint-10.0.0/

#eslint #outlooks

What's coming in ESLint v10.0.0 - ESLint - Pluggable JavaScript Linter

A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.

eslint.org

Frontend Dogma @frontenddogma.com · 2d

Let’s Play Accordion With the HTML “details” Element, by @[email protected]:

https://www.oidaisdes.org/lets-play-accordion.en/

#html #disclosurewidgets #accordions

Let's Play Accordion with the HTML details element

An in-depth look at the new capabilities of the native disclosure element.

www.oidaisdes.org

Frontend Dogma @frontenddogma.com · 2d

What’s New in Svelte: October 2025, by @[email protected]:

https://svelte.dev/blog/whats-new-in-svelte-october-2025

#releasenotes #svelte #sveltekit

What’s new in Svelte: October 2025

Improved Remote Functions, sv create from playgrounds and experimental async SSR

svelte.dev

Frontend Dogma @frontenddogma.com · 2d

This One Abstraction Made My Frontend 10× More Maintainable, by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):

https://archive.fo/scyQ5

#events #dom #debouncing

This One Abstraction Made My Frontend 10× More Maintainable

archive.fo