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Edit on GitHub Portals Portals provide a first-class way to render children into a DOM node that exists outside the DOM hierarchy of the parent component.…

What is strategy? Hooray! Everyone’s favorite question! Just kidding. In reality, this is a topic that quickly makes very smart people pull their hair out.…

One of the downsides of cancelling an American Express Preferred Rewards Gold or Platinum charge card is that you are required to empty out your Membership…

Out of the box, Safari displays your existing websites beautifully on the edge-to-edge display of the new iPhone X. Content is automatically inset within the…

Killing Old Service Workers for the Greater Good Recently at Hackages, we ran into the following problem: we had our website at https://www.hackages.io and then…

iOS 11 brings some new, perhaps unintuitive, behaviour around the status bar area which will be particularly important for developers using tools like Apache…

Front-end Performance The Case for FED Performance Optimisation A fast website is essential for a good user experience (UX), conversion and findability.…

HTTP/1 vs HTTP/2 by LoadImpact Loadimpact gathers all resources from your URL, fetches those resources from their own server using HTTP/2 and give you some neat…

Subform is a modern tool for digital product designers. Spend more of your time designing—instead of juggling multiple artboards and tediously propagating…

Rasmus Andersson Design @Figmadesign. Previously @Dropbox, @Facebook, and @Spotify — rsms.me Sep 19 Team Library 1.0 Illustration made for Figma by Peter…

before your PWA go into the wild Maxim Salnikov @webmaxru Tame your Service Worker How to build fast, offline-ready, user-friendly web apps And enjoy doing this…

“It needs more ‘pop’.” Can I tell you how many times I’ve heard that phrase? It’s the sad reaction to a design that could lack proper emphasis. My reaction is…

Methodology It’s a lot like growing up, but not as awkward and embarrassing. Carbon , Lightning , Clarity , Polaris , Plasma , Build . Am I describing names of…

About the Artist Emily Garfield creates intricate maps of imaginary places that explore the origins of cities and the function of maps themselves. Her drawings…

The new iPhone X features a beautiful edge-to-edge display. Well, almost. There is the small issue of a notch at the top of the browser which doesn't cause an…

I’ve been using CSS grid (which henceforth will be referred to as Grid) for quite a bit now, and although I often talk about how we can use grid to make all…

I recently had the opportunity to speak at Web Directions Code 2017 over in Melbourne. While there, I was part of a panel with Mark Dalgleish and Glen Maddern…

Most web developers I talk to these days love writing JavaScript with all the newest language features—async/await, classes, arrow functions, etc. However,…

To engage readers, build community, and strengthen journalism, Mozilla’s open-source commenting platform will be integrated across washingtonpost.com this…

Posted on Tuesday, 26 January 2016 by Steve Faulkner Category: Development Category: Standards Category: Testing I have reported previously on support in…

Child’s play: a quirk in the tax rules can get back lost cash.Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images Thousands of families are failing to take advantage of a…

Presentation tips for people who don’t like giving presentations Presentations at conferences or at work events are only one way of sharing information. They’re…

Web layouts evolve pretty quickly. First we used tables, next, floats and positioning, then inline block made a short appearance, followed by the almighty…

The hard truth What’s important when picking out a font? It’s one of the most common questions I get when I consult in accessibility . People expect me to start…

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Reality Prose has an excellent analysis on the changing price of LEGO bricks over the years and a misconception that cost has gone up. According to the chart…

Everyone has a pet theory about Blade Runner, and I want to tell you mine. Spoiler: Blade Runner is about Blade Runner. Or rather, it's about creating Blade…

One common argument for why organizations aren’t investing in Progressive Web Apps is that iOS doesn’t support them. Hogwash. Here’s why organizations should…

Oneohtrix Point Never Ask Me Anything Recap 23/08/2017 Following the release of Good Time (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), Oneohtrix Point Never answered…

Starting in early May, Rob Dolin began advocating for adding a categories member to the Web App Manifest spec . It was something we’d been discussing for a…

An accordion is a design element that expands in place to expose some hidden information . Unlike overlays, accordions push the page content down instead of…

Tim Harford — Article — What We Get Wrong About Technology

Share: Follow: Follow Dynamic user interfaces began to be an important feature for today web applications. To maintain quality, they must be tested properly.…

Children enjoying the forest school garden at Cambridge Day Nursery but such classes may not continue if the extra free hours squeeze budgets.Photograph: Sonja…

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Forms on the web don't usually play nice with bad connections. If you're trying to submit a form while offline, you'll most likely just lose your input. Here's…

16 Tips for Setting Up a System That Endures I’m no color expert. Far from, actually. Throughout my career, I’ve depended on visual designers better than myself…

10th August 2017 : You can now set up availability alerts for a specific range of dates, making it easier to find just the reward flights you're looking for 🚀…

Keeping animation choreography cohesive from the outset of a project can be challenging, especially for small companies. Without a dedicated motion specialist…

At the end of June, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook had hit a new level: two billion monthly active users. That number, the company’s preferred ‘metric’…

An experimental mixin for realigning your typographic elements with proper graphic design baseline. The intent is to make it much easier to compose pages while…

Zeona M. enjoys a recent day at the office. By this point you probably know all you ever wanted to know, and more, about Mr. Money Mustache’s long-ago path to…

When it comes to APIs, change isn’t popular. While software developers are used to iterating quickly and often, API developers lose that flexibility as soon as…

Create high-fidelity, interactive web archives of any web site you browse Create New Collection New! Browse your archives offline with Webrecorder Desktop…

Inclusive Components Inclusive Components Home The components About the project A blog trying to be a pattern library. All about designing inclusive web…

Over the years I've been consistently uninterested in using the new slew of frameworks and libraries that have been released. By no means is this because…