Holy crap, the Front-end Developer Handbook is a seriously ambitious effort by Cody Lindley. Awesomely impressive!!

The state of front end tooling starts by mentioning Peter-Paul Koch‘s suggestion that we Stop pushing the web forward, then dives into a very thoughtful insight into when, why, and how we should consider adding new layers of complexity to our daily workflows. It’s a short read, so well worth it.

A revolution is hard to recognize when you are in the middle of it; usually you need history to look back and see how it started, what happened, and evaluate the outcome. So, calling Service Worker a revolution might be premature, but I have no problem imagining our future selves looking back and seeing it as just that…

And speaking of Service Worker…

The serviceworker devtools panel has landed in Chrome Canary – gives you full overview of the lifecycle

Thanks, Jake! :-)

And speaking of DevTools, I’m looking very forward to this upcoming improvement to Chrome DevTools’ Inspect Element…

Okay, just one more from DevTools, an extremely thorough full-stack performance review using Chrome DevTools’ Timeline.

Use mix-blend-mode to achieve a Reverse Text Color Based on Background Color Automatically in CSS. Cool!

Think you got ES6? Have a go at this ES6 quiz then…

Bounce.js is a tool and JavaScript library that lets you create beautiful CSS3 powered animations.

But if you feel like rolling your own, you may want to check-out Paul Lewis‘s Design and UI Animations guide.

Dudley Storey offers two great new intro articles for HTML5 Fullscreen and Dialog. I really like that dialog will automatically be positioned above any other content on the page (no z-index battles here!) and that it automatically comes with a ::backdrop pseudo-element!

Two articles on WordPress security from wpmudev:

1. First, 12 Ways to Secure Your WordPress Site You’ve Probably Overlooked, which starts with basic, should-be-commonly-known stuff, then delves into some pretty strong-handed techniques, before finally offering individual products and solutions.
2. Next, WordPress Security: Tried and True Tips to Secure WordPress, which covers a lot of the same topics from the first article, but also a couple new ones; if you’ve read the link above, this is still worth a quick skim.

And finally, reader Mike Wallagher, inspired to try to speed up his own WordPress installation, forwarded his case study, dropping his page load speeds from 4.23s to 1.33s!

Happy reading,
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