In defense of books - Eli Bendersky's website
Summary of reading: January - March 2022 - Eli Bendersky's website
Exploring function parameter types with Go tooling - Eli Bendersky's website
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Product Lessons from ML Home: Spotify’s One-Stop Shop for Machine Learning
Building platforms is a hard business. Building platforms for discerning machine learning (ML) practitioners with bespoke needs and a do-it-yourself ethos is even harder. In today’s post, we will give you a peek into how we built ML Home, the internal user interface for Spotify’s Machine Learning Platform, and the product lessons we learned along the way in our quest to entrench it in Spotify’s ML
Looking Forward: Some Predictions for 2022
As we approach the end of the year, let's look ahead at some trends and predictions for 2022
Updating The Single Most Influential Book of the BASIC Era
In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career. With early computers, you didn’t boot up to a fancy schmancy desktop, or a screen full of apps you could easily poke and prod with your finger. No, those computers booted up to the command line. From here, if you were lucky, you might have a cassette tape drive. If you knew the right commands, you could type them in to lo
2021: Year in review
2021: Year in review
New Year, Fresh Desktop (January 2022 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
What better way could there be to start the new year than with some fresh inspiration? Our collection of wallpapers for January 2022 is bound to put a smile on your face — and maybe spark new ideas, too.
On Yak Shaving and md-block, a new HTML element for Markdown
Lea Verou made a Web Component for processing Markdown. Looks like there were a couple of others out there already, but I agree with Lea in that this is a
Nerd Out on 10 of Our Favorite Posts From 2021 - Shopify
A curated selection of our favorite 2021 posts, spanning technologies & engineering disciplines, with a few classics you still love, read, and share.
How To Price Projects And Manage Scope Creep — Smashing Magazine
Scoping, estimating, and running digital projects can often feel like an exercise in futility. In this article, Paul Boag explains why you need to start breaking your projects down into manageable phases and why that’s the best way to achieve significant benefits.
GitHub’s top 10 blog posts of 2021
As the year winds down, we’re highlighting some of the incredible work from GitHub’s engineers, product teams, and security researchers.
Building Gatsby Themes For WordPress-Powered Websites — Smashing Magazine
Have you already built and published a Gatsby theme? In this article, Paulina Hetman explains how Gatsby themes work and what problems they can solve by comparing Gatsby themes with their WordPress counterparts.
Strut Your Stuff With a Custom Scrollbar
The first time I had my breath taken away by a humble scrollbar was on this very site. When CSS-Tricks v17 rolled out with its FAT CHONKY BOI, my jaw dropped.
Care for the Text
How do you make a great website? Everyone has an answer at the ready: Flashy animations! The latest punk-rock CSS trick! Gradients! Illustrations! Colors to
Fix the unit test and open a giant hole everywhere
Cloudflare Radar's 2021 Year In Review
In 2021, we continued to live with the effects of the COVID pandemic and Internet traffic was also impacted (differently than in 2020) from it.
2021 Roundup of Web Research
Last year, we kicked out a roundup of published surveys, research, and other findings from around the web. There were some nice nuggets in there, like a
Remember You Are Not the User
One thing people can do to make their websites better is to remember that you are not representative of all your users. Our life experiences and how we
Show, Don't Tell
How much time do you spend designing the content presentation for your websites? When you write a new blog post or create a new page, are you thinking about
Creating A Custom Range Input That Looks Consistent Across All Browsers — Smashing Magazine
Range inputs have notoriously been a pain to style. Each browser renders the input differently requiring you to use vendor prefixes in order to create a cohesive look and feel. In this article, we’ll take a look at the quirkiness of the HTML range input and demonstrate how to style the input to look consistent across all major browsers.
Increase Your Reach
NGL, I was a little overwhelmed when I sat down to write this article. There are so many things that immediately flooded my mind—take out any extra divs; use
