Inspired by previous posts and popular clickbait listicles, I recently wrote a blog post headed “24 Antipatterns to Avoid in 2024 🚫2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣4️⃣🚫 🤖💩🤡🤯”, mocking blatant language and poor quality of said posts that still get too much attention and can mislead juniors by giving outdated advice. Some antipatterns to avoid…

As WordPress is celebrating its 20th anniversary, a popular CMS that powers millions of websites all over the world, so we can say that’s an open-source software success story. But recent development has caused controversy and irritation among web developers — like me — who don’t benefit much from the…

As a front-end web developer, 2022 has been a good year full of innovation, and hopefully, 2023 will continue this trend. New core CSS features, new libraries, and a renewed discussion about accessibility and energy-efficiency help us to unite usability and fancy design in web development. Inspired by a discussion…

Doing some manual testing on the fly can get quite complex, even if it’s “just the happy path”. Testing tools and frameworks can help us to automate and manage our test scenarios. This is a cross-post of a Practical DEV blog post by Ingo Steinke, originally posted at https://dev.to/ingosteinke/automating-tests-using-codeceptjs-and-testomatio-first-steps-3b2e . Choosing (and Mixing) Test Frameworks

I don’t mind if you do the right thing for the wrong reason, but please don’t do anything only for the sake of productivity. I have seen so many posts coaching about productivity, and it often reminds me of this sign: “Coffee — do stupid things faster with more energy”. …

This story was first published at open-mind-culture.org and republished as CSS4 Colors in Ingo Steinke’s DEV blog. More, and More Colourful, Web Colors CSS4 will make even brighter colours available to web designers and developers. Like parent selectors, the upcoming CSS Level 4 colour proposal was first implemented in Safari. But before we dive deeper into…

This story was originally published on Ingo Steinke’s DEV blog. I have been using Firefox for about 10 years, a happy early adopter after Microsoft planned to make Internet Explorer software to pay for. Long ago, and currently using Vivaldi as my default browser, it took me some time to…

Events to look forward to in 2022, just a small and subjective selection from the perspective of a European web developer focused on front-end development, accessibility, and sustainability. You can also read this article in German. Remix Conference Friday, 14 January 2022 from 12:00 to 16:00 CET. A Smashing Hour…

Inspired by my article “Nothing New in 2022?”, I will share some thoughts about what to expect and not to expect of a new year from the perspective of a frontend web developer. What 2022 will bring: long-awaited language features in CSS and JavaScript. Parent selectors or rather “has” pseudo-classes…