What happened last week - issue #52
This week: Astro, Biome, CSS and more
What happened last week
Sorry for being a day late, but life happened.
First of all - The Code and Coffee Show is back. Next week, I will be pleased to chat with Elio Struyf about the amazing Front Matter CMS.
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Apart from this - I had a great cycling weekend. Together with our small gravel group, we cycled around the Zalew Sulejowski. There was mud, sand, and even an old train bunker. You can see what it looked like on Komoot.
Interesting links
Yeey - Astro 3.0 was just released, and this release is full of goodies. My favorite? The View Transtitions API. While I wasn’t a fan of its initial release, now it works as it should.
Because of this, I updated my Astro theme Pacamara a bit to be compatible with the latest release. Grab it here.
A NativePHP Example — Chris Fidao
I mentioned NativePHP once already, but here you see a fully working tutorial on how to start making your NativePHP applications.
Announcing Biome — Emanuele Stoppa
Have you ever had a chance to try Rome? If not, let me assure you that it’s an excellent tool for formatting and lining. Sadly, it didn’t succeed. The good news is that some of the contributors decided to fork it and keep the project alive. And that’s how Biome is born.
End-to-End Test Microsoft 365 Solutions with Playwright — Elio Struyf
I really love how Elio picks the not-so-obvious topics. If you ever will be working on something Microsoft 365 related, this guide may greatly help you.
The results of the State of CSS survey are in. There is some interesting information. For example - Tailwind awareness hit 97% (only 34% knew it in 2019). Sass is still the most popular pre-processor. :has() is the most adopted feature.
A Few Interesting Ways To Use CSS Shadows For More Than Depth — Preethi Sam
I never thought we could use CSS shadows to create so many amazing effects. I’m really mindblown by some of those.
Bézier curves - Richard Ekwonye
This article about Bézier curves is amazing because:
you can learn a lot from it. Richard explains the topic amazingly
it’s interactive, so you can play with those curves during reading.
And how was your week? Did you learn something interesting? Don’t hesitate to press the reply button or share your thoughts in the comment section.
Cheers,
Maciek