Google is the best friend of every developer. Let’s use it to boost productivity — Knowing how to google is the most important skill for a developer. Everyone uses Google — junior developers, mid, or senior. It’s not cheating to google everything! But do you really know how to google efficiently? Let me show you some google hacks. Explicit Phrase Search for an explicit phrase by enclosing…

A look at the new UI design trend from a developer’s point of view — Design trends are like JavaScript frameworks — there’s a new one every day. Today, I would like to introduce you to a design trend called Aurora UI. My friend Michal Malewicz came up with the name, and you should read his article on the topic. Let’s take a look at…

A short tutorial on how to create images in CSS — I’ve always admired people who create single-div illustrations in CSS. One div, multiple background layers, tons of CSS code, and boom! You have an illustration. I always thought that it must be challenging and I could never create such a thing. I was wrong. To create a simple image, you…

HTML5 added a lot of new tags. Let’s discover a few that you might not know — HTML5 achieved W3C recommendation in 2014 and added a lot of new tags. Some of them, like <main>, <nav>, <header>, or <footer>, are semantic replacements for the commonly used <div>. Everybody was talking about those tags, but there a lot of different and lesser-known ones. …

These days, it’s hard to get your first tech job without impressing your employer with your portfolio — A lot of new developers create identical landing pages from the same template (I wasn’t any different). As a result, job applicants are drowning in a pile of CVs and other portfolios. Create Interesting Projects for Your Portfolio

Many people build weather apps to show off their new skills. Don’t let yours be boring — Nowadays, it’s hard to get your first job without impressing somebody with your portfolio. Everybody is creating weather apps, but does everybody have custom CSS-based images in theirs? Let’s create unique images to boost your portfolio. There are multiple shapes that we can create in CSS, so why not create…

And an intro to glassmorphism — Last year’s neumorphism trend was horrible and awful. In 2020 I expected something even worse, but Michał Malewicz, the creator of the neumorphism style, wrote about something fresh and good-looking — glassmorphism style. Let’s take a look at it. New Trend Glassmorphism is a new trend which is getting more popular on…

CSS gives us the opportunity to create multiple Shapes. — Making various shapes in CSS is easy. Squares and rectangles are the most common and natural shapes in web development. You need to add width and height, and that’s it. Then add border-radius and you have circles and ovals. More complex shapes require using :before and :after pseudo-elements or more…

A lot of images can be replaced with CSS — Improving the performance of a website is serious business. Most people don’t realise how much standard stock photo weight. My blog was built in Gatsby because I wanted it to have the best performance with images. High-quality images are huge and very heavy; that’s why we should always optimise them. How images slow down my page? …