Links from 2015

There has recently been a lot of noise on the lists, and questions at conferences, about putting refactoring "stories" on the backlog. Even if "technical debt"…

At the Moog synthesizer factory in Asheville, N.C., on Tuesday, Michael Adams, the company’s owner and chief executive, wanted to share some life-changing news…

Truly reusable components are clearly separated from the code that uses them. That makes it easy to use the component in a different project. It also makes it…

I built a doubly static site using React (inc react-router) and Webpack. You can see the current demo here on GitHub or continue reading the following post that…

I’ve been dabbling with React for a few months now and using it in several small open source projects to better understand the technology. React’s focus on…

Every week we take a peek inside the lunches of the luckiest kids in Brooklyn. Read on, suppress your jealousy, and get a little brown bag inspiration.…

Frontend future is already here. You just need to give it a chance. Today I’m gonna show you how to bring future to your frontend development process. Some of…

On this website, you can explore the findings of scientific research carried out by Andrea Ganna and Erik Ingelsson . Their study , which is published in the…

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If you’ve been to a technology conference in the last two years, you’ve probably noticed that the word Docker gets said rather a lot. But while Docker is…

In my last post , I laid out why I think moving our CSS into JavaScript is not a good idea. If am totally honest, however, I have to admit I brushed off the…

Are we nearly there yet? No, the journey towards good universal childcare and nursery education is proving long and winding. But one of the encouraging…

Some folks want a unified language of the web instead of CSS, HTML, and JS. It's increasingly looking like JS will just eat the other two. — Henrik Joreteg…

Most people are aware that is is possible to define scripts in package.json which can be run with npm start or npm test , but npm scripts can do a lot more…

The smartest way to share designs, export assets and collaborate with your team. Export and share anything from Photoshop & Sketch designs Colors, image assets,…

We recently deployed and open sourced a new version of our splash pages . We've had some great feedback on how fast the site is so we wanted to give a high…

Purchase Review Nudie Grim Tim (Orange) Selvedge 13.5oz Dry Denim Jeans 0 0 0 After my last project, the Edwin’s had their first wash a couple of weeks back, I…

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We didn’t know exactly what would pan out—the headline could have been that chocolate improves sleep or lowers blood pressure—but we knew our chances of getting at least one “statistically significant” result were pretty good.

When lightboxes and overlays first appeared a few years ago, they provided an elegant solution to a tricky interaction-design challenge: how to convey important…

(This article is part of the MicroConf 2015 Recap . Want to explore more talks from the event? Go back to the Recap Hub ) Main Concept Ship something! It…

<blockquote>Cross-platform command-line app for moving files and directories to the trash. A safer alternative to `rm`.</blockquote>

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Most of us are aware of the notion in software engineering of having a "Separation of Concerns". It's one of the holy truths of computer science. An unbreakable…

Internet Explorer 9–11 suffer from various bugs that prevent proper scaling of inline SVG’s. This is particularly problematic for SVG icons with variable…

I’m working on a project at Twitter that uses React and webpack. After a few conversations with @sokra last year, this is the setup I put in place for testing…

When we last left our intrepid web developers, they had discovered the power of srcset width descriptors, only to be faced with a new challenge—the browser only…

React Style Authoring React components always was a joy as it gives you a codebase with clear boundaries between concerns. However React.js, like most other…

by Eric Portis · May 01, 2015 Ad via The Deck Job listings via We Work Remotely In “Responsive Images in Practice” I made no little hay that sizes was…

Three years on, web components should be everywhere Why has this taken so long?! Vendors couldn't agree 😭 Until now, only a Google effort Very ambitious…

PostCSS plugin to transform global selectors into the local scope format of Webpack’s css-loader. WARNING: This project depends on css-loader’s local scope…

..or the struggles with contextual styling. — Using CSS components is somewhat straightforward. We add the markup and give it the component’s class name and all…

<blockquote> I remember when a friend of mine moved to Paris in the 90s to pursue his dream of becoming an artist. He came back to England, disillusioned, five years later, calling the city "a museum" – mummified, stagnant, a victim of its own past glories, bought up by rich outsiders who'd out-priced the creative vibe that drew them there in the first place. The locals, wistful and resigned, referred to their city as "The Sleeping Beauty", looking on enviously at how London was ablaze with the best art, the best music, the best nightlife, the best creativity of any stripe, while they were left with only fine wine and memories, as Uncle Monty might have put it. Is London headed the same way as The Sleeping Beauty – an exquisite corpse, too dolled up and expensive for the creativity it's still trading on to flourish, or even survive? </blockquote>

Over the past few months at Segment we’ve been rebuilding large parts of our app UI. A lot of it had become impossible to maintain because we were relying on…