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- Srcset and sizes — ericportis.com ericportis.com
March 24, 2014 Part 1: What’s Wrong With Media Queries? So let’s say you’re making a web page sometime between February 23rd, 1993 and May 25th, 2010 . Images…
- reactopt npmjs.com
A CLI React performance optimization tool that identifies potential unnecessary re-rendering. About Reactopt identifies specific events that may be causing…
AEM isn’t particularly awful software. It does a few interesting things and in general does what it does relatively well. It’s just that it isn’t special, and…
Does the proliferation of Design Systems affect our creativity? I read a discussion recently on Designer News that discussed the impact of Design Systems on the…
- V6: Typography and Proportions | Rob Weychert v6.robweychert.com
V6: Typography and Proportions The logic behind the layout. 28 Nov 2017 This is the second post in a three-part series about my site’s recent redesign. The…
- "Anaconda", "Pacific State", "Sueño Latino", and the Story of a Sample That Keeps Coming Back | Pitchfork pitchfork.com
"Anaconda", "Pacific State", "Sueño Latino", and the Story of ... https://pitchfork.com › thepitch 8 Sep 2014 · 808 State were another case of Balearic…
So: me and bitcoin, you already knew I disliked it, right? (Let's discriminate between Blockchain and Bitcoin for a moment. Blockchain : a cryptographically…
- Debugging React performance with React 16 and Chrome Devtools. building.calibreapp.com
React was one of the first major front-end frameworks to not only name, but tout it’s rendering performance. React’s virtual dom is famous for efficiently…
- Network based image loading using the Network Information API in Service Worker | justmarkup justmarkup.com
Recently , Chromium improved their implementation of navigator.connection by adding three new attributes: effectiveType , downlink and rtt . Before that, the…
- Don’t Use ARIA Menu Roles for Site Nav adrianroselli.com
8 Comments In response to Matt King . Matt, when you say The point of the ARIA practices , I am assuming you are referencing WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.1 .…
- The Burden of Precision daneden.me
“ If the idea is there, the brush can spare itself the work” —Chinese painter’s proverb Design tools today confine us to an unrealistic and ill-advised goal:…
- A Meritocracy is a Trailing Indicator randsinrepose.com
When you are asked as a manager “What do I need to get to the next level?” I suggest the quality and completeness of your answer is directly correlated to your…
Updated: August 2016 Since 2012, things have changed quite a lot when it comes to recording your iPhone or iPad screens. The most known option at the time to…
- To Save Net Neutrality, We Must Build Our Own Internet motherboard.vice.com
The Federal Communications Commission will announce a full repeal of net neutrality protections Wednesday, according to the New York Times and several other…
As we build sites more heavily reliant on JavaScript, we sometimes pay for what we send down in ways that we can’t always easily see. In this post, I’ll cover…
- Localisation and Translation on the Web bitsofco.de
Coming from the English-speaking world, it can be easy to maintain the bubble that is the English-speaking World Wide Web. But in fact, more than half of web…
I n early 1984, executives at the telephone company Pacific Bell made a fateful decision. For decades, the company had enjoyed a virtual monopoly on telephone…
P.F. Chang’s finance chief said he switched the company to Adaptive Insights from Excel because it fosters collaboration and cuts down on administrative tasks.…
- Lona (Developer Preview) github.com
- Service Workers Break the Browser’s Refresh Button by Default; Here’s Why redfin.engineering
Service Workers Break the Browser’s Refresh Button by Default; Here’s Why Service Workers are like apps. You can’t safely upgrade an app while it’s still…
Hundreds of web firms are tracking every single keystroke made by visitors, a study from Princeton University has suggested. The technique - known as session…
- Of SVG, Minification and Gzip – Noteworthy — The Journal Blog blog.usejournal.com
Smaller files are downloaded faster, so making an asset file size smaller before sending it to a client is a good thing to do. Actually, it’s not just a good…
- Another Tor Browser Feature Makes It Into Firefox: First-Party Isolation bleepingcomputer.com
Unbeknown to most users, Mozilla added a privacy-enhancing feature to the Firefox browser over the summer that can help users block online advertisers from…
- The Cost Center Trap leanessays.com
In the 1960’s, IT was largely an in-house back-office function focused on process automation and cost reduction. Today, IT plays a significant strategic and…
I like React as a templating engine , not only on the client side but on the server as well. Over the last year or two rendering templates with React.js on the…
- A founder's playbook: Lessons from what I did wrong collynahart.com
It’s taken me far too long to face this question honestly and openly, but I realise how useful it might be for people who are also starting their own companies,…
- Datasette: instantly create and publish an API for your SQLite databases simonwillison.net
A tool for creating and publishing JSON APIs for SQLite databases, instantly creating a url-based interface for accessing (but not writing) your data via JSON(o) calls.
- Introducing Postlight’s WordPress + React Starter Kit trackchanges.postlight.com
People who publish on the web love WordPress . Engineers love React . With some research, configuration, and trial and error, you can have both — but we’d like…
The news about Facebook dropping the patent clause and re-licensing of React under the MIT license brought some sort of relief to the WordPress community. But…
- Happier HTML5 Form Validation daverupert.com
I recently embarked on improving the client-side form validation for a client. There were about 400 lines of form validation code stuffed inside a 1000 line…
Journalism & News copied to clipboard Jeff Chang Group Product Manager, Search Published Nov 16, 2017 copied to clipboard Every day approximately 50,000 web…
- Building Flexible Design Systems speakerdeck.com
Published November 1, 2017 in Design Yesenia Perez-Cruz 4 Presentations Star this Talk Published in Design Stats 5,940 Views Share Download PDF Other…
- The User Experience of Design Systems runemadsen.com
On Google’s Material Design and the Templatization of Digital Products This is a transcription of a keynote given at UX Camp Copenhagen in May, 2017. Thanks so…
- How to use SVG as a Placeholder, and Other Image Loading Techniques medium.freecodecamp.org
Generating SVGs from images can be used for placeholders. Keep reading! I’m passionate about image performance optimisation and making images load fast on the…
- Bose Sleepbuds can silence snores and barking dogs theverge.com
Image: Bose Two years ago we discovered a rather remarkable set of smart earplugs from a company called Hush that could silence the noise around you as you…
- Is text sizing dead? | AlastairC alastairc.ac
I was listening to Shop Talk show 287 , where Chris and Dave were wondering about the old mantras about text-sizing / media queries not being in pixels, I think…
- html-sketchapp github.com
Experimental HTML to Sketch export solution. What it can do? It turns HTML nodes into Sketch layers or symbols. Additionally, it allows to export shared text…
- ‘Learning to live’: why sophrology is the new mindfulness theguardian.com
‘Sophrology uses mental and physical exercises to achieve an alert mind in a relaxed body.’Photograph: Mint Images/Rex/Shutterstock W e have welcomed…
- Inclusive Design Checklist github.com
Aims to be the biggest checklist of inclusive design considerations ever. Includes items for accessibility, performance, device support, interoperability, and…
- The online brokers taking the misery out of mortgages theguardian.com
Mortgages made easy ... online brokers make the process hassle-free.Photograph: Alamy T hey market themselves as a hassle-free way to get a home loan, where you…
Gut feeling is good but data-driven UX design is better. Still, the collectible data can be overwhelming, and the product teams might be working toward…
- Designing Adobe’s Evolving Brand System – Prototypr blog.prototypr.io
A few weeks ago at Adobe MAX, we unveiled a few updates to the Adobe brand system. There were two significant changes: the redesign of the file type system…
- ARIA is Spackle, Not Rebar | CSS-Tricks css-tricks.com
Much like their physical counterparts, the materials we use to build websites have purpose. To use them without understanding their strengths and limitations is…
- Views from the Top - ACM Queue queue.acm.org
The September/October issue of acmqueue is out now The Soft Side of Software Business/Management PDF October 31, 2017 Volume 15, issue 5 Views from the Top Try…
- Resource Hints w3c.github.io
This specification defines the , , , and relationships of the HTML Link Element (``). These primitives enable the developer, and the server generating or…
- Web Performance & Security: how to master Third Party Content impacts | DareBoost Blog blog.dareboost.com
Third-party content are parasites. Friendly ones, with – most of the time – good intentions. But parasites anyway. Let’s discover some useful tips and…
- The Front-End Performance Challenge: Make Your Site Blazingly Fast And Win Some Smashing Prizes – Smashing Magazine smashingmagazine.com
Not too long ago, front-end performance was a mere afterthought. Something that was postponed to the end of a project and that didn’t go much beyond…
- Crownpeak's Quality Management Solution | Crownpeak crownpeak.com
QUALITY MANAGEMENT Ensure consistency across your entire digital footprint The only Digital Experience Management solution with automated Digital Quality…
- Chinese Standard Web Fonts: A Guide to CSS Font Family Declarations for Web Design in Simplified Chinese - Kendra Schaefer kendraschaefer.com
June 11, 2012 Massive Google fail. Since days of searching have brought me no closer to answering my most pressing Chinese font questions, I bit the bullet and…
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