#133 - Working remotely
Hey everyone,
Welcome to issue #133, your weekly roundup of what’s happening in design, code and typography.
Thought provoking #
Two steps forward, one step back from Brent Jackson. If you’re building an application with React in 2020, don’t settle for CSS methodlogies from 2013.
Remote work wiki. A central hub of the best resources on remote work from team Notion.
How to thrive working from home. Marko Saric shares his tips for making remote working a success.
Design and Code #
Andy Bell launches a new site for Piccalil.li a home for tutorials and upcoming courses on front-end development and design.
Overcoming my panic towards accessibility. A refreshingly honest account from Zell Liew of his struggles to write accessible code. and the measures he’s taken to overcome this.
Introducing Visual Open Authoring. Edit your live site, in real-time. Anyone can contribute. Scott Gallant walks through Tina CMS’s new approach to crowdsourcing content.
Do You Make These 7 Mistakes When You Write? Brian Clark is a constant source of helpful writing tips. Whether you’re coding, committing or commenting, it’s important to write well.
Typography #
Utopia is a new way of thinking about fluid responsive design. In particular, how to handle fluid type scales with CSS only, by using CSS custom properties, CSS locks and the concept of hills. Trys Mudford and James Gilyead are doing some great work on this project. They’ve written some brilliant articles – Css-only fluid modular type scales is one, but I urge you to read them all – and built both a fluid type scale calculator and a CSS generator.
Variablefonts.io. Jason Pamental, Matthew Rechs, Caren Litherland, and the Google Fonts team launch a fantastic new website introducing variable fonts—what they are, what they can do, and why they matter.
I’m a big fan of Fabrikat Normal, it’s beautiful, works great at small sizes and it’s very affordable. Christoph Koeberlin has made a few updates and it’s now available as a variable font.
Something to watch #
“Designing Intrinsic Layouts”. Jen Simmons walks through the thinking process of creating accessible & reusable page and component layouts using CSS Grid, Flexbox and Multicolumn.