Welcome to my Weekly Digest #49 of this year.

This weekly digest contains a lot of interesting and inspiring articles, videos, tweets, podcasts, and designs I consumed during this week.

Interesting articles to read

Defensive CSS

A list of defensive CSS techniques to avoid potential future issues

Defensive CSS - Ahmad Shadeed

Building The Gatsby Changelog Prototype

In this post, Paul documents his journey of developing a prototype Gatsby Changelog site for the GitHub Actions Hackathon.

Building The Gatsby Changelog Prototype

Coloring With Code — A Programmatic Approach To Design

Learn to create beautiful, inspiring, and unique color palettes/combinations, all from the comfort of your favorite text editor!

Coloring With Code - A Programmatic Approach To Design - Codrops

Some great videos I watched this week

Is Web3 all Hype?

A complete introduction into the wild world of Web3 - the decentralized web. Is Web 3.0 the future or is it all hype? Learn about the technologies and patterns used when building an app on the blockchain.

by Fireship

Thinking on ways to solve Toasts

In today's GUI Challenge, Adam Argyle shares thinking on a way to build toasts, a non-interactive and passive component for UI to provide user feedback. Explore the [output] element, CSS grid, animations, and the FLIP technique which helps build an adaptive and accessible component.

by Adam Argyle

ShopTalk Astro Edition

It's funny how you work on a real project, you get a 10 ✕ better understanding of how it works than if you just hello, world it, or read a blog post.

by Chris Coyier

Macro & micro layouts - Designing in the Browser

In this episode of Designing in the Browser, we will be elaborating on some concepts introduced in the Container Queries episode and expanding beyond on how to use container queries into the question of when to use them.

by Una

Useful GitHub repositories

eslint-plugin-storybook

Official ESLint plugin for Storybook

npm install eslint --save-dev
# or
yarn add eslint --dev

npm install eslint-plugin-storybook --save-dev
# or
yarn add eslint-plugin-storybook --dev

{
  // extend plugin:storybook/<configuration>, such as:
  "extends": ["plugin:storybook/recommended"]
}

gping

Ping, but with a graph

orf / gping

Ping, but with a graph

gping 🚀

Ping, but with a graph.

Table of Contents

• Install 💿
• Usage 🎷

Install 💿

• macOS
  • Homebrew: brew install gping
  • MacPorts: sudo port install gping
• Linux (Homebrew): brew install orf/brew/gping
• CentOS (and other distributions with an old glibc): Download the MUSL build from the latest release
• Windows/ARM
  • Scoop: scoop install gping
  • Chocolatey: choco install gping
  • Download the latest release from the github releases page
• Fedora (COPR): sudo dnf copr enable atim/gping -y && sudo dnf install gping
• Cargo (This requires rustc version 1.44.0 or greater): cargo install gping
• Arch Linux: pacman -S gping
• Ubuntu/Debian (Azlux's repo):

echo "deb http://packages.azlux.fr/debian/ buster main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/azlux.list
wget -qO - https://azlux.fr/repo.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt update
sudo apt install gping

• Gentoo (dm9pZCAq overlay):

sudo eselect repository enable dm9pZCAq
sudo emerge --sync dm9pZCAq
sudo emerge net-misc/gping::dm9pZCAq

Usage

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css.gg

700+ Pure CSS, SVG & Figma UI Icons Available in SVG Sprite, styled-components, NPM & API

dribbble shots

NFT Dashboard

by Afshin

MuseOn Branding

by Halo Branding

Multimedia Design Platform

by Fauzan Ardhiansyah

Crafftt - NFT Marketplace Dashboard

by Rayfan Tio Saputro

Tweets

Elliot Jay Stocks / Other Form

@elliotjaystocks

For the past year, I’ve been working with the @googlefonts team to create a library of educational typographic content, which has been reviewed by the best in the type business.

Say hello to... Google Fonts Knowledge!

(And this is just the beginning.)

fonts.google.com/knowledge

16:13 PM - 07 Dec 2021

Storybook

@storybookjs

Storybook 6.4 makes it easier to build & test complex connected components

▶️ Interactive stories to simulate user behavior
⚡️ On-demand architecture for 4x faster load times
📋 Linter helps enforce best practices
⛸ Automigrate for easier upgrades

ed.gr/dr4hz

16:00 PM - 06 Dec 2021

Adrian Bece (アドリアン・ベツエ)

@adrianbecedev

🎉 I've launched a new project 🎉

Introducing "Modern Fluid Typography Editor" - an awesome & handy tool for any #frontend #webdeveloper . Create and fine-tune fluid typography values in your projects with ease. It generates a #CSS clamp code snippet.

modern-fluid-typography.vercel.app

12:09 PM - 06 Dec 2021

Zeno Rocha

@zenorocha

🤔 What if you could "run" a macOS on the web?

🤯 Check out this crazy page built by @puruvjdev using @sveltejs and @vite_js for bundling.

👉 macos.vercel.app

15:45 PM - 04 Dec 2021

GitHub

@github

Get busy curating – The Lists public beta is now available! Organize your starred repositories with Lists for easy access or to share your favorites.

github.blog/changelog/2021…

22:30 PM - 09 Dec 2021

GitHub

@github

Check out the technology preview for GitHub code search, the next iteration for search, discovery, and navigation on GitHub.

github.blog/2021-12-08-imp…

17:01 PM - 08 Dec 2021

Picked Pens

Sliding Stepper

by Jon Kantner

Craft Button

by Adir

Responsive castle

by Vast Rideside

Podcasts worth listening

Call with Kent – Bestway to reset a form

This is a question about: Improve the Performance of your React Forms

Syntax – Meta Tags

In this Hasty Treat, Wes and Scott talk about Meta Tags.

Thank you for reading, talk to you next week, and stay safe! 👋