Let’s start this issue off with some first-rate, utterly nonsensical, meaningless babble…

Now the rest of this should sound much smarter, so, let’s go!

A couple of CSS Snippet collections; useful stuff to have handy in your toolbox, or maybe even “starter” CSS file:

• First, Jeremy Keith offers several handy bits, ranging from the basic view-transition starter, to some figcaption stuff, and even some @layer bits.
• Next, an oldie from Stephanie Eckles, but still some great bits worth adding to any starter CSS file!

Speaking of starter kits, Jeff Delaney created a magnificent video (3 years ago, but still fascinating!) of all the things one should know if working with the web… Gotta love “Allison, can you explain what Internet is?” [sic].

Another slightly old, but totally worth revisiting, item comes from the great Zoran Jambor, where he highlights Top 5 CSS Navigation Menu Mistakes. Don’t get caught-out!

After the Chrome 142 and Firefox 144 releases last month, Rachel Andrews kindly sums up the effect these releases had on cross-browser support.

Anyone that embeds YouTube video players into their pages should know how bad this is for performance! YouTube shoves a TON of stuff on you, need it or not. Some time ago, Paul Irish published his lite-youtube-embed, and now Justin Ribeiro has released a ShadowDom web component version of that!

And speaking of Web Components, Aaron Gustafson offers-up A Web Component for Conditionally Displaying Fields! Lots of great options built-in there, very handy!

Chris Ferdinandi walks us through the wonderful benefits of Pull Request Templates! How many times have you opened a PR to review it, but couldn’t figure out what the PR was supposed to be doing? Or whether it satisfied all the criteria? Creating a solid template can really help avoid this by spelling out everything that is expected of the developer.

Matt Zeunert shows off How To Throttle Specific Requests In Chrome DevTools! Oh man, is that super helpful! A file doesn’t have to be a SPOF to wreak havoc; a SPOD can be quite bad, too…

Making sure everyone is aware of the Web Performance Calendar request for articles! Every year, every article is well worth reading! So be sure to get yours in!

And finally, Thomas Moes shares his love for beautiful words, a collection of words that only exist in a single language, and don’t quite translate anywhere else… Fascinating! Thomas points out that these words “hint at… a specific way of seeing the world, baked into the culture that coined them.” Yes! Who else but the Japanese, for example, would create a word for “useless gadgets to solve mundane, everyday problems”? And what other culture besides India would need a word to remind us that “the self is not fixed but ever-changing”? I want to learn, and learn to use, them all…

Happy reading,
Atg

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