Some Antics
Google Chrome's new experimental Shared Element Transition API enables single-page applications to transition from page to page smoothly and seamlessly as the user navigates, much like a native app...
I've been building out a Some Antics website! Join me for a bit of creative coding as I flesh out the new landing page, and get to work on more pages throughout the site. https://someantics.dev/hel...
Every once in a while, I host office hours and review several viewer-submitted sites. For this stream, however, we dove into just one site: Jim Drury's new developer blog, with Jim himself! Jim's a...
Homer Gaines joined the stream to chat about all things accessibility and design system work! https://someantics.dev/chatting-accessibility-and-design-systems-with-homer-gaines/
So you've written a test. But how do you know if your tests are any good? Mutation testing lets us gauge the quality of our test suites by introducing random bugs into our applications and seeing h...
Mayank joined the stream to show off their take on modern websites, featuring some of the latest and greatest from CSS like cascade layers, as well as building with Astro. https://someantics.dev/ca...
Florian Beijers is a blind web developer, gamer, accessibility consultant, and more. I was honored to have the chance to bring him onto the stream and chat with him about his day-to-day experiences...
Over the past few years, TypeScript has really been eating the world by bringing typing to JavaScript developers' ergonomics. Join us as Josh Goldberg shows us how to get started with TypeScript! h...
Miško Hevery (CTO Builder.io, creator of Angular and Qwik) joined me on stream to show off Qwik, a new framework that boosts web performance by only sending the JavaScript you need when you need it...
Previously, Lindsay Wardell joined me on stream to introduce me to the Elm language. Last week, she joined me again to show off how we can use Elm to build web apps! Check it out! https://youtu.be/...
Anthony Campolo rejoined me on Some Antics — this time, to teach me about deploying sites to the InterPlanetary File System. Check it out! https://youtu.be/GJQZkm2ut0E
Austin Gil joined me on stream to show off Vuetensils, a headless component library for Vue built for accessibility. https://someantics.dev/vuetensils/
Varun Vachhar, DX at Chromatic, joined me on stream to show how we can use Storybook's accessibility plugin to add automated accessibility testing to our UI testing workflow! https://someantics.dev...
Dan Jutan from the SolidJS Core Team joined me on stream to show off how Solid works, and then we talked about how clientside frameworks like Solid can incorporate accessibility! https://someantics...
Segun Adebayo, creator of Chakra UI and Zag, joined me on stream to show off how state machines and the Zag library can be used to create robust, accessible UI components in a framework-agnostic wa...
SVGs let you do a lot of really neat stuff with your graphics! Heather S. Neff of Equivalent Design showed us how we can make adaptive SVGs that make our graphics more accessible, responsive, and o...
Office hours are open! I hosted accessibility office hours on Some Antics, and gave three informal accessibility audits for viewers' sites. https://someantics.dev/june-2022-office-hours/
Design systems advocate m4dz joined the stream to dive into building design systems with web components! https://someantics.dev/build-design-systems-with-web-components/
Accessibility advocate Adrian Roselli joined the stream to show how underengineering your websites can aid accessibility, interoperability, maintainability, and more! https://someantics.dev/underen...
Vanilla JavaScript educator Chris Ferdinandi joined the stream to show off how to build a minesweeper-inspired browser game without the need of a framework! https://someantics.dev/minesweeper/
Eric Bailey joined the stream to show off high contrast/forced colors mode! https://youtu.be/AKNfMMGZMpg
Ben Holmes rejoined the stream, this time to show off the latest in the Astro v1 beta. https://youtu.be/tKiZ_VTE0w4
Adrián Bolonio joined the stream to show off how we can use GitHub Actions to bring automated accessibility testing to our CI/CD! https://youtu.be/OZgfT3tdaDw
Type designer Bruno Maag joined Some Antics for a dive into typographic accessibility! We delve into neuroscience and internationalization, as well as disabilities such as macular degeneration, epi...
I performed a live accessibility audit of mikeaparicio.com, unicorn-utterances.com, austingil.com, and icannot.design on stream! Check out my findings. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1440536185
Lighthouse CI creator Patrick Hulce joined me on the Some Antics stream to demonstrate how we can use our DevTools to troubleshoot our web performance! There's so much in here, from reading flamegr...
Larry Hudson joined Some Antics to show off what it takes to make a PDF document accessible, including a very Jamstack approach to creating accessible PDFs with the Eleventy static site generator! ...
Amit Sheen joined Some Antics to show off JavaScript problems… and their CSS solutions! https://youtu.be/__Thf_Wo-oA
Dave Rupert joined Some Antics to show off the work the Open UI Community Group has been doing to create a spicier, more customizable web of the future! https://youtu.be/36yzal04dRo
The ways we implement responsive web design can have a major impact on accessibility for anyone who needs to zoom the page or scale up their font size. Jim Drury joined the stream to show off some ...
Travis Waith-Mair, creator of the Bedrock Layout primitives library joined me on Some Antics to show how Bedrock enables robust and flexible designs! https://youtu.be/ZISlxQ6CX2A
Brittney Postma joined Some Antics to show off how to build components for Svelte in SvelteKit! https://youtu.be/eUslcJLGk9g
Alistair Shepherd joined the stream to show how adding image CDNs to our workflow enables image optimization and transformations with ease! https://youtu.be/RJ2Su0MhIWU
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Lindsay Wardell joined Some Antics to introduce me to the basics of the Elm functional programming language! https://youtu.be/flUASpYouEw
The todo app is perhaps the most familiar web application tutorial project out there. However, most tutorials only get you part of the way there! Michael Chan joined the stream to show us how we ca...
Accessibility audits are a great tool for concretely improving a website's #a11y standing. Hidde de Vries joined me on Some Antics to share his tips, tricks, and tools for auditing sites with WCAG'...
Remix is a new tool for building and deploying fullstack React applications with a keen appreciation for the web's foundations — and it was just made open source! Chance Strickland joined me on the...
I had Austin Crim on the stream, and together we made a theremin using the Web Audio API! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYaJEvg_JMI
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I held an AMA about accessibility! https://someantics.dev/september-2021-ama/
Crystal Preston-Watson joined me on Some Antics to share her process for mobile accessibility auditing! https://youtu.be/GA5VBmHvaSg
Accessibility audits are a powerful tool for communicating concrete, actionable improvements product owners, developers, and designers can make to their websites. A few weeks ago, I had designer–de...
Chance Strickland joined the stream once more: this time, to demonstrate how to build accessible dialog components in React! https://someantics.dev/react-dialogs/
Ben Holmes, creator of Slinkity, joined Some Antics to demonstrate how we could use some experimental APIs within Eleventy to extend our setup to nontraditional templates such as Sass or JSX files....
How does the markup we write impact user experience, especially with regards to accessibility? How do we find out? Ashlee Boyer joined Some Antics to introduce us to debugging semantic markup for a...
Disabling a button seems pretty straightforward: <button disabled>. But is that the most inclusive experience? Sandrina Pereira joined us to share why it might not be. https://someantics.dev/disabl...
Eleventy Serverless introduces a new way to build Eleventy sites — by generating pages upon request, rather than all at once. Currently, it's only available in canary builds leading up to Eleventy'...
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Polypane is the browser designed for developing and testing web applications. Polypane creator Kilian Valkhof joined us on Some Antics to show us how Polypane can give us confidence in our sites' r...