Mac

When doing web programming in a context where scroll might be expected, you may see some surprising behavior in the scrollable HTML– an inexplicable gray bar on the bottom or right of the element: One culprit, on Mac, is the user’s scrollbar setting. As a UX and accessibility aid, Mac allows users to always show scrollbars when they are available. Considering this feature as a programmer, you can make sure you only offer scrolling when it makes sense, and educate users who don’t know they have this setting enabled. ...

When viewing a Figma design file, you can zoom in/out with CMD and up/down on a trackpad or magic mouse. Scroll left or right with one-finger swipe left or right. Zoom and scroll; along with adding comments and copying CSS, that’s most of what I do in Figma. I’m sure that these commands are useful in many other settings, but I find them especially valuable in a Figma file, which can feel otherwise challenging for me to navigate.

One of my all-time favorite programming tools is Dash by Kapeli. In this post, I’ll share some tips for leveraging this fantastic program. ...