The person of the week this week is @tabatkins. Tab spends a lot of time refining and shaping CSS and making sure that the websites we are building today remain accessible and usable in the future. Thanks for your contributions, Tab — they matter!



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✏️ WordPress doesn’t offer any kind of notification system. Meet the ‘Notification’ plugin, an all-in-one solution for any custom WordPress notification system: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/07/wordpress-notifications-made-easy/ (by @kubamikita) https://t.co/nZE3mY01HO

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When writing CSS, what kind of syntax do you prefer? E.g. nav { padding: 1.25em auto .6875em; } or nav { padding: 1.25em auto .6875em auto; } or nav { padding-top: 1.25em; padding-right: auto; padding-bottom: .6875em; padding-left: auto; }

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How to use Slack in a team to stay focused and productive? “Shut down Slack if you want to be heads down. It's not a place for critical alerting. Don’t do the “Hi / Bye” routine.” ↬ Lessons learned from taking a week off Slack. https://wildbit.com/blog/2018/07/17/our-week-off-from-slack

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✏️ Have you had a go at the Beacon API? It's a lightweight and efficient way to log information from a web page back to a server. @drewm elaborates on what makes it so different from traditional Ajax techniques: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/07/logging-activity-web-beacon-api/

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? Just for fun: The more you toggle, the less pleased someone is. https://codepen.io/jh3y/pen/ZjLKGY/ (created by @jh3yy for the #CodePenChallenge) https://t.co/xRdyAvjNPc

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“Users will just use a drop-down”. “Users will just check a checkbox”. Isn't the word ‘just’ one of the more dangerous words out there? It’s based on assumptions that are usually wrong or incomplete. I tend to stop a conversation when “just” appears in it. Or is it ‘just’ me?

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✏️ WordPress doesn’t offer any kind of notification system. Meet the ‘Notification’ plugin, an all-in-one solution for any custom WordPress notification system: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/07/wordpress-notifications-made-easy/ (by @kubamikita) https://t.co/nZE3mY01HO

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Question for the house! As designer or developer, what are your main pain points these days? What are the main problems you keep running over again and again? Thinking about articles and talks that would address those issues directly. Any tips?

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✏️ Frameworks provide easy-to-use APIs that make writing tests for various scenarios easier. @maskaravivek explains how you can improve test coverage for your Android app by using Mockito and Espresso: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/07/improving-test-coverage-android-app-mockito-espresso/ https://t.co/SMXaOAFSU2

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