An open-source developer intentionally corrupted his own libraries that have been used by thousands of projects. Users of open-source projects that depend on the 'colors' and 'faker' libraries by Marak Squires were confronted with their applications indefinitely printing gibberish messages on their console--rendering them useless. The colors library receives over 20 million weekly downloads on... Read more » The post Open-source developer corrupted his own popular libraries appeared first on Developer Tech News.

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When a client wants you to build an appointment scheduling system for them, how do you go about it? This post breaks down the 3 most popular options. The post How to Create an Appointment Scheduling Platform: DIY vs. Plugin vs. Trafft appeared first on Codrops.

Scott digs into the history of the <menu> element. He traced it as far back as HTML 2 (!) in a 1994 changelog. The vibe then, it seems, was to mark up a list. I would suspect the intention … The post Semantic menu context appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.

It's the last edition of this year, and I'm pretty stoked what 2018 brought for us, what happened, and how the web evolved. Let's recap that and remind us of what each of us learned this year: What was the most useful feature, API, library we used? And how have we personally changed? For this month's update, I've collected yet another bunch of articles for you. If that's not enough reading material for you yet, you can always find more in the archive or the Evergreen list which contains the most important articles since the beginning of the Web Development Reading List.

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Skeuomorphism is the practice of using realistic elements in your design. For example, you might want to build a UI that resembles an object like a car or a computer.... The post 10 Examples of Interactive Skeuomorphic Design Elements appeared first on Speckyboy Web Design Magazine.

This week's Designer News (N.446) includes Dark UX Patterns in Advertising, a Playground for Variable Fonts, The DIV That Looks Different in Every Browser, Teutonic CSS, Free Cunia Font, How to Build Complicated Grids Using CSS Grid and much more. The post Weekly News for Designers No 446 appeared first on Speckyboy Web Design Magazine.

Purists say that you should never alter typography. Lettering should appear as intended by the type designer, or you should select a different font altogether. While this is mostly true, the exception is in the sliced text trend. The nifty effect makes type elements look like they’ve been cut with a precision tool and can […]