Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter • Josh W. Comeau
joshwcomeau.com/css/backdrop-filter/Glassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing that final 10% that really makes it shine. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create the most realistic lush frosted glass anywhere on the internet.
The Market for Lemons - Infrequently Noted
infrequently.org/2023/02/the-market-for-lemons/New web services are being built to a self-defeatingly low UX and performance standard, and existing experiences are now pervasively re-developed on unspeakably slow, JS-taxed stacks. At a business level, this is a disaster, raising the question: why are new teams buying into stacks that have failed so often before?
5 steps to faster web fonts /// Iain Bean
iainbean.com/posts/2021/5-steps-to-faster-web-fonts/Fine-tune your font files and optimise your loading strategy for maximum speed + minimum FOUT
CSS Auditing Tools — Smashing Magazine
smashingmagazine.com/2021/03/css-auditing-tools/In a new short series of posts, we highlight some of the useful tools and techniques for developers and designers to get their work done better and faster. Starting out with a few tools for getting to the bottom of CSS.
Jank Free: Let's Make the Web Silky Smooth!
jankfree.org/Jank Busters: helping you get your projects silky smooth!
Page Weight Doesn't Matter
nateberkopec.com/2015/11/05/page-weight-doesnt-matter.htmlThere's one universal law of front-end performance - less is more. Simple pages are fast pages. We all know this - it isn't controversial. Complexity...