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Web Witch Weekly: Issue 16
Design tokens are features, what it means to be Turing complete, CSS Mesh Gradients, beware the Yule Cat, and more!
Welcome to issue 16 of Web Witch Weekly! I spent last week recovering from a rather sudden and intense illness and am happily on the mend for the holiday week. I love this time of year and all the bits of winter that people incorporate into their websites or apps. I’m a sucker for falling snow animations and am taken back to my early career when I needed to design holiday graphics.
If you are taking this week off, I hope it’s restful & everything you need it to be.
On the Web, About the Web
Every token is a feature
Dave Rupert shares his recent experience with design tokens & technical debt.
A progress update on reading-flow
Rachel Andrew shares a brief update on the new reading-flow property and availability.
The Design System Advent Calendar — a big design systems resource wrap up
Luke Murphy shares all the articles and resources they reference frequently
What does it mean to be Turing complete?
A delightfully interactive experience that answers this question.
🔊 Hey, Listen!
ShopTalk: Hard Code & Soft Skills
This episode is a workplace-themed role-playing adventure created by Dave. A delight to listen to.
Tutorials & Tools
CSS Mesh Gradients
A library of ready to use Mesh Gradients made with CSS.
StoryGraph Scraper API
A low level API to scrape your public StoryGraph profile and gives you some serverless endpoints via Netlify Functions.
Reading Page, powered by the Airtable API
How to build a reading page for your website using the Airtable API and 11ty.
Outside the Web
Beware the Yule Cat, Iceland’s Child-Eating Christmas Monster
Iceland’s expansive Christmas lore includes the Yule Cat, said to be a witch in cat form.
5 times the U.S. government revealed secrets it tried to keep hidden
The latest drone sightings have stirred up conspiracy theories, so here’s a look from National Geographic at things the US Government eventually owned up to hiding from the public.
A Homeowner Found Huge, Fossil Teeth While Mowing the Lawn. Then, Excavations Revealed a Complete Mastodon Jaw
A homeowner in New York thought they were baseballs in his plants. It turned out to be a mastodon, a mammal distantly related to wooly mammoths and the modern elephant.
Thanks for reading and see you in 2025!
Web Witch Weekly will pick back up in the new year.
The Web Witch (Stephanie)
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