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PERSON OF THE WEEK Simon Collison is a designer, writer, and speaker from Nottingham. An early web standards advocate, he has twenty years experience leading design at companies such as Fictive Kin, Erskine, and Agenzia and assisting governments, banks, airlines, tech giants, record labels, publishers, and charities. To connect the community, Simon organizes the New Adventures conference, a future-focused event with a focus on critical design, inclusivity, and sustainability. You can find him on Twitter as @colly. Thank you for sharing and caring, dear Simon!
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Sarah Drasner wrote How To Stack Elements In CSS january 27, 2020 — Did you know that you can use CSS Grid to stack elements? Sarah Drasner explains how it works and what else you can do if you want to have more fine-grain control of how elements are placed on a page.
Kilian Valkhof wrote CSS Layouts Without Media Queries january 24, 2020 — With Flexbox and Grid you can make responsive layouts without having to define fixed breakpoints with media queries. Kilian Valkhof breaks down how it works.
Amelia Wattenberger wrote The CSS Cascade january 23, 2020 — Have you ever been tempted to use !important to make your CSS “work”? Or wondered why your styles weren’t working? Amelia Wattenberger shares a quick write-up of how the CSS Cascade works.
Stefan Judis wrote Tiny Helpers january 22, 2020 — Because he never finds the proper tools when he needs them, Stefan Judis started Tiny Helpers, a collection of free single-purpose online tools that are useful for web developers.
Ryan McDermott wrote Clean Code JavaScript january 21, 2020 — Ryan McDermott adapted the software engineering principles from Robert C. Martin’s book Clean Code for JavaScript. The result is a collection of patterns for producing readable, reusable, and refactorable code.
Adam Wathan wrote Centering Checkboxes january 20, 2020 — Perfectly aligning checkboxes with text is annoying, especially when the text wraps on to multiple lines. Adam Wathan shares his approach to perfectly centering them with the first line of text, no matter the length or size.
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