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How we work with design can have a tremendous impact on our overall output, and yet we don't always treat it as very important. A look at how collaborating with design can supercharge our own productivity.
SmashingConf is coming to Austin! In this post, Rachel Andrew gives you a rundown of what you can expect and shares a video interview with Miriam Suzanne who will be sharing the stage with the rest of the brilliant SmashingConf Austin speakers!
I recently started drawing on my iPad using the Procreate app with Apple Pencil. I’m enjoying the flexibility of drawing this way. What usually keeps me from
Amy Kapernick covers four types of testing that front-end devs could and should be doing:
Let's write a state machine abstraction together to understand it better
HTML comes with a bunch of input controls, and there are tons of component libraries that include many standard controls such as checkboxes, and radio buttons. But what happens when you need something unusual? In this article, Uri Shaked will show you how to build custom HTML components that mimic physical objects, such as the Arduino Pushbutton. We’ll draw the component in Inkscape from scratch,
Been seeing a lot of Eleventy action lately. It's a smaller player in the world of static site generators, but I think it's got huge potential because of how
I love how nerdy this is. Autumn allows you to write JavaScript to control your windows. Get this window, move it over here. Nudge this window over. There are
Git 2.25.0 includes a new experimental git sparse-checkout command that makes the existing feature easier to use, along with some important performance benefits for large repositories.
With so much going on, we’ve made it our mission to help you stay on top of things. Of course, you can follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and subscribe to our RSS feed, but it’s nice to have an overview of the most important things in one place. With this guide, Iris Lješnjanin covers pretty much everything from performance budgets to single-page apps to networking optimizations.
Since launch, Cloudflare Access has helped improve how users connect to secured applications. When you protect an application with Access, users never have to connect to a private network and never have to deal with a clunky VPN client.
I'm a fan of the componentization of the web. I think it's a very nice way to build a website at just about any scale (except, perhaps, the absolute most
I think we all have an intuitive understanding that, at the beginning of projects that require our creativity (be it design or code), things feel uncertain
The GitHub Student Developer Pack now delivers over $200k worth of tools and training to every student with the addition of 22 new partners.
Scaling development without slowing down the delivery speed of new features is a problem that companies face when they grow. Speed can be achieved through better tooling, but the bigger the teams and projects, the more tooling they need. When projects and teams use different tools to solve similar problems, it gets harder for tooling teams to create one solution that works for everybody. Additiona
Cloudflare for Campaigns is designed to make it easier for all political campaigns and parties to get access to cybersecurity services.
GooFonts is a side project signed by a developer-wife and a designer-husband, both of them big fans of typography. We’ve been tagging Google
Christian Schaefer has a great big write-up about dealing with web advertisements. The whole thing is interesting, first documenting all the challenges that
I find it notable when the blog of a major accessibility-focused company like Deque publishes an article called Debunking the Myth: Accessibility and React.
Two articles published the exact same day:
Postgres Tips and Tricks: Benefit from these little Time-Saving commands, SQL snippets or PostgreSQL features for PostgreSQL users.
Many people who work in software development today have heard of the practice of pair programming, yet it still only has patchy adoption in the industry. One reason for its varying acceptance is that its benefits are not immediately obvious, it pays off more in the medium- and long-term. And it's also not as simple as “two people working at a single computer”, so many dismiss it quickly when it fe
Apache Airflow is a tool for describing, executing, and monitoring workflows. At Slack, we use Airflow to orchestrate and manage our data warehouse workflows, which includes product and business metrics and also is used for different engineering use-cases (e.g. search and offline indexing). For two years we’ve been running Airflow 1.8, and it was time for…
How do you move faster when adding folks to a project supposedly slows it down? Mailchimp’s CPO takes the reader through some considerations for preserving momentum while scaling up. Software is difficult to build with lots of complex interdependencies. And everyone needs to work together to get it done. As you work to manage dependencies and introduce tools to help scale, make sure you clearly co
