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Meet “The Ethical Design Handbook”: How To Leave Dark Patterns Behind — Smashing Magazine
We need to craft better digital products that respect customer’s choices without hurting business KPIs. And we need to do so by taming data collection and abandoning dark patterns, from hidden checkboxes to ambiguous copywriting. Today, Vitaly Friedman brings you our new practical guide on how to influence a positive change in your company and help your business grow sustainably. Without dark patt
How To Create A Headless WordPress Site On The JAMstack — Smashing Magazine
In this post, we’ll set up a demo site and tutorial for headless WordPress, including a starter template! We’ll use the WordPress dashboard for rich content editing, while migrating the front-end architecture to the JAMstack to benefit from better security, performance, and reliability. We’ll do this by setting up a Vue application with Nuxt, pulling in the posts from our application via the WordP
The Three Types of Code
Every time I start a new project, I organize the code I’m looking at into three types, or categories if you like. And I think these types can be applied to
Freezing User-Agent Strings
There's been news about Chrome freezing their User-Agent string (and all other major browsers are on board). That means they'll still have a User-Agent (UA)
How to Create an Animated Countdown Timer With HTML, CSS and JavaScript
Have you ever needed a countdown timer on a project? For something like that, it might be natural to reach for a plugin, but it’s actually a lot more
Get Moving (or not) with CSS Motion Path
We just linked up the idea that offset-path can be cleverly used to set type on a path. Don't miss Michelle Barker's experimentation either, with drawing
The Arctic Code Vault starts production and your open source projects are being archived
On 02/02/2020 we took a snapshot of every active public repository on GitHub to be archived for a thousand years in the Arctic Code Vault. Learn about what’s included, how you can help us improve it, and more.
New zine: Become a SELECT Star!
New zine: Become a SELECT Star!
Fix the "not wrapped in act(...)" warning
There are a few reasons you're getting this warning. Here's how you fix it.
An Interview With Zach Leatherman: A SmashingConf Austin Speaker — Smashing Magazine
SmashingConf is coming to Austin, and in this post, Rachel Andrew brings you an interview with one of our speakers, Zach Leatherman, who will be talking about type and font performance. Zach is no stranger to the Smashing stage, and if you want to find out more about web fonts and loading strategies, you can watch his talk from SmashingConf London 2018.
Get support from the dashboard
Get in touch with Vercel Support easier than ever before, without having to leave your dashboard.
Full Stack Panic
A new podcast from Sean Fioritto inspired by Joel Califa's term "Full Stack Anxiety".
Suspicious discontinuities
95%-ile isn't that good
How Spotify Aligned CDN Services for a Lightning Fast Streaming Experience
Spotify built its business on flawless content delivery. Our streaming platform serves up more than 50 million tracks (plus an array of images and other assets) to more than 230 million monthly active users around the world — making us one of the world’s leading streaming services. With content that feels instant and immersive, we help our customers have the best experience possible with their fav
Spotify Unwrapped: How we brought you a decade of data
The is one of Spotify’s largest marketing and social campaigns of the year. It enables our users to see a detailed breakdown of their listening habits over the past year. Since 2019 was the end of the decade, we wanted to do something special for our users. As one of the few streaming platforms that has existed since before 2010, Spotify had a unique opportunity to be able to provide users with a
Techbytes: Hans Dockter discusses Developer Productivity Engineering
Tune in to Hans Dockter, CEO & Founder of Gradle, as he explains the emerging practice of Developer Productivity Engineering and how data and acceleration technologies can speed up and improve essential software development processes.
Ajay Kalia: Group Product Manager
Time to wake up, grab a shower and get my train. I live in Newton, Massachusetts, which means a half-hour ride into work. And I spend that time bouncing around between various streaming and podcast platforms on my phone—half to entertain myself, half as market research. It’s a great opportunity to put myself in the shoes of someone who doesn’t work at Spotify, listen with fresh ears, and figure ou
Techbytes: What The Industry Misses About Incidents and What You Can Do
Hear from John Allspaw – former CTO of Etsy and one of the leading members of the DevOps movement – as he explains how Resilience Engineering techniques can help us understand incidents in online software worlds in a broader and deeper way.
Dave Zolotusky: Senior Staff Engineer
I never set an alarm clock these days—my children wake me up sometime before 7am and we get them breakfast, help them get dressed and all get ready for the day. One of the coolest things about where we live in Stockholm is that everything is within walking distance—I just cross the street to drop our younger kid at preschool, go two blocks down to drop the older one at their school, and then walk
How We Improved Data Discovery for Data Scientists at Spotify
At Spotify, we believe strongly in data-informed decision making. Whether we’re considering a big shift in our product strategy or we’re making a relatively quick decision about which track to add to one of our editorially-programmed playlists, data provides a foundation for sound decision making. An insight is a conclusion drawn from data that can help influence decisions and drive change. To ena
Smaller HTML Payloads with Service Workers
Short story: Philip Walton has a clever idea for using service workers to cache the top and bottom of HTML files, reducing a lot of network weight.
29 Days Of February (2020 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Artists and designers from across the globe once again got out their favorite tools and created unique and inspiring wallpapers to welcome the new month. The wallpapers are available with and without a calendar for February 2020 and can be downloaded for free.
Log Drains on Vercel
Easily forward and collect your logs using Log Drains.
Test designs early and often with the new Maze integration
Now user testing is easier and faster with Figma and Maze’s new product integration.
How To Create A Card Matching Game Using Angular And RxJS — Smashing Magazine
Today, Anna Prenzel would like to focus on data streams resulting from click events on the user interface. The processing of such clickstreams is particularly useful for applications with an intensive user interaction where many events have to be processed. This article is dedicated to Angular developers who want to harness the concept of reactive programming. This is a programming style that — si
JAMstack at the Edge: How we built Built with Workers… on Workers
We're showcasing developers building incredible projects with tools like Workers KV or our streaming HTML rewriter.
Announcing Built with Workers
You ask "What can I build with Cloudflare Workers?" @cloudflare responds:
Apollo GraphQL without JavaScript
It's cool to see progressive enhancement being done even while using the fanciest of the fancy front-end technologies.
Four Layouts for the Price of One
Pretty notable when a tweet about a flexbox layouts gets 8K+ likes on Twitter!
Practice GraphQL Queries With the State of JavaScript API
Learning how to build GraphQL APIs can be quite challenging. But you can learn how to use GraphQL APIs in 10 minutes! And it so happens I've got the perfect
Postmortem: Service disruption on January 21-22, 2020
The root cause of our recent service outage and our next steps
GitHub Desktop 2.3 removes obstacles to help you be more productive
GitHub Desktop brings two features that avoid permission failures: rerouting when pushing to a cloned repository and rerouting when pushing to a protected branch.
React Native is the Future of Mobile at Shopify - Shopify
After years of native mobile development, we’ve decided to build all of our new mobile apps using React Native. As I’ll explain, that decision doesn’t come lightly.
Using CSCS Scripting Language For Cross-Platform Development — Smashing Magazine
As opposed to JavaScript and Python, variables and functions in CSCS are case-insensitive. The primary goal of CSCS is to let the developer write as little code as possible. In this article, Vassili Kaplan explains how you can use a scripting language to develop cross-platform mobile applications. You’ll find examples in both iOS and Android that include placing widgets on the screen, SQLite, Web
Empowering Your Privacy
Happy Data Privacy Day! At Cloudflare, our mission is to help build a better Internet, and we believe data privacy is core to that mission. But we know words are cheap — even data brokers who sell your personal information will tell you that “privacy is important” to them.
Use and Reuse Everything in SVG… Even Animations!
If you are familiar with SVG and CSS animations and started to work with them often, here are some ideas you might want to keep in mind before jumping into
Set Type on a Circle... with offset-path
Here's some legit CSS trickery from yuanchuan. There is this CSS property offset-path. Once upon a time, it was called motion-path and then it was renamed. I
aviationstack
I wonder how many startup ideas have something to do with air travel? 🤔
Figma on Figma: How we built our website design system
A look at how the Figma marketing team built, and continues to build, the design system for figma.com
How Smashing Magazine Manages Content: Migration From WordPress To JAMstack
WordPress adoption is massive. So why would a WordPress site consider moving to JAMstack? In this technical case study, Sarah Drasner will cover what an actual WordPress migration looks like, using Smashing Magazine itself! She’ll talk through the gains and losses, the things she wishes she knew earlier, and what she was surprised by. Let’s dig in!
Smashing Podcast Episode 8 With Stephanie Stimac And Aaron Gustafson: What’s New In Microsoft Edge? — Smashing Magazine
We’re taking a look at the brand new version of Microsoft Edge and its Chromium-based rendering engine. What does that change mean for web developers, and how does the death of Microsoft’s own rendering engine impact the web? Today, Drew McLellan talks to Microsoft’s Aaron Gustafson and Stephanie Stimac to find out.
JavaScript Libraries Are Almost Never Updated Once Installed
An analysis, based on CDNJS data, of when and if JavaScript libraries are updated after being installed onto websites.
What does "revert" do in CSS?
Miriam Suzanne explains in a Mozilla Developer video on the subject.
Woodworking SVG (and Other Real Life Encounters)
Eric Meyer does his woodworking math in SVG.
How To Design Powerful Narratives On Mobile — Smashing Magazine
Want to build a website or PWA that attracts a large audience and then converts as much of that audience into paying customers as possible? If that’s the case, what you need to do is use storytelling in your design — and there are a bunch of ways to do this. The key is to pair your client’s story, brand image, and goals with the style of story you decide to tell. There’s a ton of variation in how
What's the Difference Between Width/Height in CSS and Width/Height HTML attributes?
Some HTML elements accept width and height as attributes. Some do not. Those attributes are sometimes referred to as presentational attributes. The thing to know about them is that they are overridden by any other styling information whatsoever. That makes them ideal as a fallback.
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For January 24th, 2020 - High Scalability -
Wake up! It's HighScalability time: Instead of turning every car into rolling sensor studded supercomputers, roads could be festooned with stationary edge command and control pods for offloading compute, sensing and managing traffic. Cars become mostly remote controlled pleasure palaces. Solves compute, latency, and interop. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Your support on Patreon is appreciated mo
How To Empower Design Teams By Measuring Value — Smashing Magazine
How do we know if we are truly impactful as a design team? Are we seen as a vehicle to deliver a solution that moves a needle? The business value of design has been proven at scale by the McKinsey Design Index. and the study shows the best design performers increased their revenues and shareholder returns at nearly twice the rate of their industry counterparts. It’s time to empower our design team
Building Multi-Directional Layouts
There are some new features in CSS that can assist us with building layouts for different directions and languages with ease. This article is about CSS
This Page is Designed to Last
Jeff Huang, while going through his collection of bookmarks, sadly finds a lot of old pages gone from the internet. Bit rot. It's pretty bad. Most of what
Component-Level CMSs
When a component lives in an environment where the data queries populating it live nearby, there is a pretty direct line between the visual component and the
Amelia Wattenberger's The CSS Cascade
If you're on a small screen, remind yourself to check it out on a big screen when you have the chance.
How to manage a program in a product-mode organization
In their ideal state, product-mode organizations are formed of loosely coupled, autonomous teams that respond rapidly to articulated and unarticulated user needs. On occasion however, opportunities arise that require a response involving coordination across multiple teams. If not managed effectively the outcome will result in missed revenue, unsatisfied customers and wasted team capacity. We refer
A Complete Guide To WordPress Multisite — Smashing Magazine
WordPress Multisite allows you to run multiple websites on your server using the same WordPress installation. From setting up Wordpress Multisite to optimizing its various features, with this article, Manish Dudharejia will help you understand every facet of this unique WordPress tool. Read on to find out more.
The Web in 2020: Extensibility and Interoperability
In the past few years, we’ve seen a lot of change and diversion in regard to web technologies. In 2020, I foresee us as a web community heading toward
Bad accessibility equals bad quality
Here’s a smart post from Manuel Matuzovic where he digs into why accessibility is so important for building websites:
Browse good first issues to start contributing to open source
Want to contribute to open source, but not sure where to begin? GitHub now helps you find good first issues to get you started.
