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Winging It

Because best practice is a conversation…

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2024 Episodes

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    Using New Color Formats

    Miriam Suzanne, Stacy Kvernmo, and James Stuckey Weber demo how to use new color formats with OddContrast, a color tool for previewing, accessibility testing, and selecting the format/space.

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    CSS Anchor Positioning in Practice

    What is Anchor Positioning? Why is it exciting? What can you use it for? How does the polyfill work? Join James Stuckey Weber and Miriam Suzanne as they talk through these questions and answer yours in our monthly live stream.

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    CSS Container Queries in Practice

    Miriam Suzanne and Stacy Kvernmo talk about CSS Container Queries and the unexpected things that happen when you add containment. Some elements completely collapse! What’s going on there? We had questions and thought you might too. So we talk through the issue in our monthly live stream.

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    Proxy State

    For simple interactive sites, using a proxy to manage your state and side effects may be enough.

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    Streamline Your API Development with FastAPI

    Join us for a dynamic exploration of FastAPI, a modern Python framework for API development.

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2023

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    Align Designers and Developers with OOUX

    An object map is a place to document information about objects in your digital system, keeping everyone involved on the same page. During our conversation, we walk through examples and discuss the benefits of using object maps.

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    Intuitive Web Design with OOUX

    During our conversation we look at 3 examples of unintuitive web design, and learn how to create websites and apps that are more intuitive using object-oriented user experience (OOUX) design strategies.

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    htmx

    During our conversation, we discuss what htmx is, how it improves user experience, and walk through some examples of common UI patterns using htmx.

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    CSS Cascade Layers

    If you’ve ever found yourself in a specificity war, you’ll understand how important having control over style priority can be. During our conversation, we discussed what CSS Layers are and how you can use them in your project.

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