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Creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know. —Anni Albers, On Designing I recently wrote a post — that was shared here on CSS-Tricks — where I looked at ways to use Unicode characters to create interesting (and random) patterns. Since then, I’ve continued to seek new characters to build new patterns. I even borrowed a book about Unicode from a local library. (That's a really thick book, by the way.) It's all up to your imagination to see the possible patterns a Unicode character can make. Although not all characters are good as patterns, the process is a good exercise for me. And, aside from Unicode itself, the methods to build the patterns may not be so obvious. It usually takes a lot of inspiration and trial and error to come up with new ones. More tiling There are ac...

I was recently mentoring someone who had trouble with the .reduce() method in JavaScript. Namely, how you get from this: const nums = [1, 2, 3] let value = 0 for (let i = 0; i < nums.length; i++) { value += nums[i] } ...to this: const nums = [1, 2, 3] const value = nums.reduce((ac, next) => ac + next, 0) They are functionally equivalent and they both sum up all the numbers in the array, but there is a bit of paradigm shift between them. Let's explore reducers for a moment because they're powerful, and important to have in your programming toolbox. There are literally hundreds of other articles on reducers out there, and I'll link up some of my favorites at the end. What is a reducer? The first and most important thing to understand about a reducer is that it will always only retu...

Part of the job of being a front-end developer is applying different techniques and technologies to pull of the desired UI and UX. Perhaps you work with a design team and implement their designs. I know when I look at a design (heck, even if I know I'm not going to be building it), my front-end brain starts triggering all sorts of things I know will be related to the task. Let's take a look at what I mean. Check out this lovely Dribbble shot for a Food Recipe Website from Riko Sapto Dimo. It's a very appealing design, and there is loads in there to think about from a front-end web design and development standpoint. We're going to mostly be talking about design pattern choices and HTML/CSS tech choices. There is much more to the job of front-end development. Accessibility! Performance! Se...