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Weekly Links–the what’s new in ’22 edition

I’ve been thinking more than a little lately about just what it is I do at Web Directions. On one level the answer is pretty straightforward–we run conferences for web and digital folks. But the more important question is what do we do for you and folks like you? Those who visit our site, attend […]

Conffab Videos of the Day

For the last few years we’ve been working away on Conffab, our on-demand streaming platform for conference talks. It took a little bit of a backseat as we got our online conferences up and running after COVID hit, but it’s been getting quite a lot of our attention of late, and it’s starting to really […]

Weekly links-opinionated abstractions

I do try to have something of a theme about each week’s collection of links, though sometimes (like this week) the theme can be a bit tenuous. SPAs were a mistake Chris Ferdinandi writes For years, a trend in our industry has been to build single-page apps, or SPAs. With an SPA, the entire site […]

:where :is your <head> at? Weekly links with a CSS flavour

Many developers consider CSS to be difficult (some even consider it broken). And a lot of effort has been expended–frameworks, methodologies, CSS-in-JS approaches–taming, in particular, the at times complex interaction of three distinct, powerful aspects of CSS that work together, in often seemingly abstruse ways, to style an element on a page: the cascade, inheritance […]

Weekly resources, Feb 18 2022

Time flies, and already we’re 6+ weeks into 2020 2021 2022. Last week we launched the program for Hover, our 100% CSS focussed conference. This week we added a few more speakers to the line-up, with just one more to announce. If you work with CSS at all, it is going to be incredibly useful, […]

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