🔥 There are 449 Hot Tips!!

Hot tips are spicy lil' nuggets related to web development and tooling that I share on my twitter account. I've logged them here to make them easier to find.

🔥 CSS Variables are perfect for overwriting parts of a definition that can’t be broken up like text-shadows, transforms or gradients

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🔥 VS Code now has a shrinking tabs option - no more scrolling for your tabs!

"workbench.editor.tabSizing": "shrink"
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🔥 With CSS variables, you can overwrite values when authoring HTML with an inline style attribute

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🔥 Use CSS object-fit: contain; and object-fit: cover; to scale 100% width and 100% height images as large as they will go without messing up aspect ratios.

Works with <video> in most browsers except IE+Edge

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🔥 You can set and use variables inside a CSS declaration. Handy for when you need the same value more than once!

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🔥 VS @code just launched Live Share, which means you can do pair programming and code sharing right from your editor!

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🔥 Since :before and :after are first class CSS Grid items, this “lines on either side” design can easily be accomplished in ~10 lines of CSS

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🔥 Text Pastry is a super handy plugin for inserting incremental numbers at each cursor. Available for VS Code, Sublime and Atom.

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🔥 CSS Grid doesn’t do masonry/pinterest layout, but if you pre-define a few consistent sizes, grid-auto-flow: dense; works really well!

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🔥 In Emmet, you can use $@15 to start numbering from any number.

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