Gary Byrne's Blog

Gary Byrne's Blog

Introduction to ARIA Live Regions

Feb 25, 202111 min read

What are ARIA live regions? According to the W3C: Live regions are perceivable regions of a web page that are typically updated as a result of an external event when user focus may be elsewhere. In applications where content can update dynamically...

Introduction to ARIA Live Regions

Understanding ARIA Landmarks - General Principles and Roles

Feb 15, 202110 min read

ARIA landmarks are a set of ARIA roles that are provided to our HTML elements in order for us to identify the structure of a web page. When we visit a webpage, we get a sense of its visual structure from the beginning but this structure should also b...

Understanding ARIA Landmarks - General Principles and Roles

Creating an Apollo Server GraphQL Content Hub

Feb 13, 202125 min read

Creating an Apollo Server GraphQL Content Hub In this tutorial, I am going to be showing you how to create a very simple version of a GraphQL content hub using Apollo Server. We will be deploying this content hub to Netlify as a serverless function....

Creating an Apollo Server GraphQL Content Hub

Fizzbuzz with CSS and Pug

Feb 3, 20216 min read

Back in 2017, I entered a frontend interview and I was asked to write some code on a whiteboard. I was given the Fizzbuzz problem. Without thinking I immediately went for JavaScript. Recently I learned about CSS counters and that got me thinking. Wha...

Fizzbuzz with CSS and Pug

Creating a Xylophone using CSS and Pug

Feb 2, 20218 min read

Let's create a simple xylophone with some CSS and Pug. The xylophone sounds I will be using in this blog can be found here. The resulting codepen can be found here. What will it look like? We will use an unordered list of buttons to represent the xyl...

Creating a Xylophone using CSS and Pug

Font Loading with Font Face Ob­server

Feb 2, 20216 min read

Font Loading with Font Face Ob­server What is Font Face Observer Font Face Observer is a really great web font loader created by Bram Stein that provides us with a promised based way to control our font loading. It will know when web fonts have been ...

Font Loading with Font Face Ob­server