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Silvestar Bistrović
Silvestar Bistrović

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UI Dev Newsletter #71

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How to find the cause of horizontal scrollbars
Kilian Valkhof explains what causes horizontal scrollbars and shows some techniques for finding horizontal scrolling issues.

Star Rating: An SVG Solution
Ahmad Shadeed goes through the SVG solution for star rating systems and how it works for different scenarios.

What I learned from Software Engineering at Google
Swizec Teller shares a recap of lessons after reading the “Software Engineering at Google” book.

Does shadow DOM improve style performance?
Nolan Lawson tries to answer this question by showing how shadow DOM works and by benchmarking the selectors.

HTML Video Sources Should Be Responsive
Scott Jehl proposes a solution for responsibly-sized, responsive, contextually-sized videos.

NProgress.js
Rico Sta. Cruz shares a nanoscopic progress bar featuring realistic trickle animations to convince your users that something is happening!

View Source
Neatnik shares a tool to view the source of any web page on the internet that could be very handy, especially on mobile devices.

The joy of sharing an open source project on Reddit
Per Harald Borgen shares a tweet with a negative comment from Reddit that sums up the everyday experience of using Reddit.

Just for fun

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Infocom interactive fiction
Play a 1984 interactive fiction game written by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky and published by Infocom.

Self-promotion

Nightmare DX (Developer Experience): Shopify
I published an article about Shopify and its (un)friendliness for developers.

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