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Engineering

Notes and curated resources tagged engineering.

web.dev – September 2026

prefers-reduced-motion: Sometimes less movement is more

Google's practical guide to detecting reduced-motion preferences and adapting animation accordingly. A compact companion to the deeper Smashing piece.

accessibility
ui
engineering

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Cover artwork for “Understanding SVG Coordinate Systems and Transformations”

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Sara Soueidan – September 2026

Understanding SVG Coordinate Systems and Transformations

The canonical reference on viewBox, viewport and preserveAspectRatio. For anyone hand-tracing SVG paths, this is the foundation everything else rests on.

tooling
craft
engineering

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Cover artwork for “IAB New Ad Portfolio – HTML5 display guidelines”

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IAB – September 2026

IAB New Ad Portfolio – HTML5 display guidelines

The industry-standard guidelines for HTML5 display advertising. The formal spec behind a decade of rich-media production practice.

best-practices
process
engineering

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Cover artwork for “CSS Utility Classes and 'Separation of Concerns'”

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Adam Wathan – September 2026

CSS Utility Classes and 'Separation of Concerns'

The essay that started Tailwind CSS – an argument for utility-first styling over semantic class naming. Directly relevant to my own stack choices.

tooling
engineering
web-design

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Cover artwork for “The Cost of JavaScript in 2019”

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Addy Osmani (V8 team) – September 2026

The Cost of JavaScript in 2019

How JavaScript parse, compile and execution time affects performance budgets – the bridge between production craft and engineering credibility.

engineering
best-practices
process

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Builder.io – September 2025

Design to Code Articles

Practical guides on shipping faster with design systems and code. Its practical examples reinforce where systems save real production time and where generated code still needs judgment.

design-systems
engineering
design-to-code

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