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Happy Wednesday ✌️ Here's what we have this week:

🎨 Patterns with CSS
📱 Lazy Load Perf
🌶️ JS Best practices

Super busy week for me, moving home and gearing up the re-brand of dailydevlinks. Exciting few weeks ahead! 

Let's dive into the rest of this edition 👇 - Adam at dailydevlinks.

📚 Top Reads

I just did a test to apply as a front end developer – and things aren’t going well

As part of one of the job applications I have going I was invited to do a frontend expertise exercise. The role I am applying for is head of frontend for a company.

Single Line Comments in CSS

Brad Frost noted on Twitter how he recently made a website with plain HTML, CSS, JS, etc., and found himself missing some of the ergonomics from Sass.

Improving Web Performance with Lazy Pattern

One of my all time favorite pattern for improving performance in modern web applications is relatively simple to explain: Just load what the user actually needs

Be Careful Using ‘Menu’

Be careful when using the word menu. Be certain you have chosen the term that accurately describes the control you want.

🛠 Resources & Tools

100+ unique CSS patterns

You have one variable to control the size and each color is defined once in the code. All you have to do is one click to copy/paste the code and adjust a few variables.

Write better code by following these JavaScript best practices

Whether you're a seasoned developer looking for ways to refine your coding style or a beginner eager to grasp the essentials, this blog post is for you.

Tetris Testimonial Quotes

Had a bit of fun last night with this week's Codepen Challenge. I had no ideas for the topic — Testimonial Quotes — but then I noticed my wife playing Tetris on an ancient GameBoy, completely absorbed 😁

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The biggest React conf worldwide!

The agenda is packed with live legends such as Christopher Chedeau, React Native co-creator, Charlotte Isambert, a mobile software architect, & over 60 other amazing speakers.

JSNation isn't just a conf! It's a festival.

That's probably why it's so popular & attended by 1000+ devs. Enjoy food truck fest, listen to live legends & rising stars on the stage, network with folks & party!

Thanks for reading ❤️
@AdamMarsdenUK from dailydevlinks