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Direct link to the article Make Any File a Template Using This Hidden macOS Tool
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Make Any File a Template Using This Hidden macOS Tool

Stationery Pad is a handy way to nix a step in your workflow if you regularly use document templates on your Mac. The long-standing Finder feature essentially tells a file’s parent application to open a copy of it by default, ensuring that the original file remains unedited.
Geoff Graham on Feb 10, 2025
Direct link to the article Compiling CSS With Vite and Lightning CSS
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Compiling CSS With Vite and Lightning CSS

Are partials the only thing keeping you writing CSS in Sass? With a little configuration, it's possible to compile partial CSS files without a Sass dependency. Ryan Trimble has the details.
Ryan Trimble on Feb 3, 2025
Direct link to the article Clever Polypane Debugging Features I’m Loving
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Clever Polypane Debugging Features I’m Loving

I’m working on a refresh of my personal website, what I’m calling the HD remaster. Well, I wouldn’t call it a “full” redesign. I’m just cleaning things up, and Polypane is coming in clutch. I wrote about how much …

Ryan Trimble on Sep 17, 2024
Direct link to the article Some Cross-Browser DevTools Features You Might Not Know
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Some Cross-Browser DevTools Features You Might Not Know

I spend a lot of time in DevTools, and I’m sure you do too. Sometimes I even bounce between them, especially when I’m debugging cross-browser issues. DevTools is a lot like browsers themselves — not all of the features in …

Pankaj Parashar on Mar 22, 2023
Direct link to the article The truth about CSS selector performance
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The truth about CSS selector performance

Geez, leave it to Patrick Brosset to talk CSS performance in the most approachable and practical way possible. Not that CSS is always what’s gunking up the speed, or even the lowest hanging fruit when it comes to improving …

Geoff Graham on Feb 7, 2023
Direct link to the article What if… you could use Visual Studio Code as the editor of in-browser Developer Tools?
DevTools edge

What if… you could use Visual Studio Code as the editor of in-browser Developer Tools?

It’s not uncommon for my front-end workflow to go something like this:

  1. Work on thing.
  2. See that thing in an automatically refreshed browser.
  3. See something wrong with that thing.
  4. Inspect and correct the thing in DevTools.
  5. Apply the correct code
…
Geoff Graham on Oct 21, 2021
Direct link to the article Debugging iOS Safari
cross-browser DevTools ios

Debugging iOS Safari

How do I debug Safari on iOS?

These are my general steps, starting with not even using iOS Safari.…

Chris Coyier on Jun 2, 2021
Direct link to the article Should DevTools teach the CSS cascade?
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Should DevTools teach the CSS cascade?

Stefan Judis, two days before I mouthed off about using (X, X, X, X) for talking about specificity, has a great blog post not only using that format, but advocating that browser DevTools should show us that value by …

Chris Coyier on May 21, 2021
Direct link to the article DevTools for CSS layouts 2021 edition
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DevTools for CSS layouts 2021 edition

Chen Hui Jing covers some recent movement in DevTools:

Firefox’s grid inspector was pretty full-featured from the get-to and released together with CSS grid in Firefox 52. It was constantly improved upon since. Chrome added a basic grid inspector

…
Chris Coyier on May 13, 2021
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