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    • 🍿 Featured Post 🍿
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      The Carbon Footprint of the Internet
      How big is the internet's impact on the environment? Can you go carbon‑neutral by working from home? What's worse, watching Netflix or buying Bitcoin? Can you run a website off solar power? Let's crunch the numbers (so many numbers) and find out!
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      Alice (Betsy) E. D. Gillies and Donald B. Gillies with the ILLIAC I at the Digital Computer Lab, Urbana Illinois, circa 1957.
      Rough Guide: How To Get Web Work (Part 1)
      How to choose a career path on the web in 2022, get a (free?!) education, and get a decent job out of it! We'll take a holistic look at how to plot out the skills you need, and get the credentials that make your résumé stand out. In part 2, we'll look for opportunities, and get you through the interview process (part 2).
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    • Build Tools
      Today we look at build tools in a modern development workflow, including task runners, toolchains, and bundlers. Then we get a project up and running using Vite.
      🧰 Decent toolkit 🧰
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      Different jobs in a web project
      How does work actually get done on the web? Let's learn about the lifecycle of a web‑based project. Most projects on the web are done according to these steps, and any one of these steps could be a full-time job for you!
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      6 Web Design No‑Brainers
      How do you design for the web in the most basic, user‑friendly way possible? Don't reinvent the wheel - follow these basic tips (backed by science!), and 6 classic design conventions so you can focus on the things that matter. Don't know what to do? Do this!
      🧰 Decent toolkit 🧰
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      Intro to ARIA
      ARIA is one of the most neglected aspects of accessibility, and one of the most important! Let's learn the basics of supplementing our native semantics with ARIA attributes.
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      Accessible Emojis
      Billions of emojis are used every single day. Today we'll look at how you can make them accessible to everyone 🏆
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      Creating Accessible Content
      Accessibility isn't just for developers. Meeting WCAG requirements has to be a team effort, and content is no exception. This is also a great way to get SEO wins, while improving your accessibility!
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      Accessibility and Visibility
      There are lots of options in front‑end code for controlling visibility, including native attributes, CSS property values, and helper classes from popular front-end libraries like Bootstrap, Foundation and HTML Boilerplate. It can be tough to remember which option shows or hides things for whom. Here's a little cheat sheet and demo to help!
      ♿ Decent accessibility ♿
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      Where to start
      Accessibility is one of those things that is never 'done'. It's a principle. If accessibility (digital or otherwise) is something you want to know more about, let's take a moment to look at where to start.
      ♿ Decent accessibility ♿
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