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How To Prepare For Christmas Early: 9 Tips For Getting Ready for Christmas

Summer is barely over and the shops are already filling with Christmas garb. But even if you are not the biggest fan of the festive season, it pays to be prepared for it. We are here to show you how to prepare for Christmas early, without breaking a sweat. Preparation is more than half the battle in our opinion. If you know how to be ready for Christmas early, like, well in advance, then by the time the big day rolls around, you will be more chilled than a turkey in January.

Why you should prepare early for Christmas

With October just a few days away, the festive season will be here before you know it. Planning ahead is the best way to save money, headaches, and even your sanity!

Have your family already started having the “Christmas Chat?” Who’s going to host? Where is it going to be? What time will lunch be made? Who is being invited? What are you getting for so-and-so? And so on. If you leave everything till the last minute, or even till just approaching Christmas, you could find yourself stressed out, unhappy, panicking, and not even looking forward to the most wonderful time of the year.

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20 Awesome Christmas Projects Hidden in CodePen

CodePen is an online playground for talented front-end developers, a place where you can always find cool projects to widen your horizons and see what other developers are up to. Year-end holidays are a great time to surprise your loved ones with creative personal projects, or to say thanks to your customers with some cool, cutting edge designs that will help the holiday cheer.

In this post, we will take a peek at 20 awesome Christmas experiments on CodePen, that you can use for inspiration to create your own designs.

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Goodbye to Google Fonts?

I’ve used Google Fonts in prototypes and in 10M+ MAU products. It’s incredibly easy to get started with and provides an amazing font discovery. That’s also why it’s currently still used on over 42M websites!

This convenience has its price: Performance. Many have already pointed out the cost of multiple requests. If you want the remaining speed boost, then you’re best off downloading your used Google Fonts and self-host them.

This is nothing new. In fact, it’s been advocated already for years. Even Google themselves advised others to self-host fonts in their Google I/O ‘18 talk about web performance.

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