Brad Frost shares his recent struggles with React which is quite inspiring. The Front-End Tooling Survey results. Philip Walton introduces the metric First Input Delay, Chromes latest user-centric performance metric and lots more. Enjoy.
Ariel Verber looks into the the evolution of the Dropbox rebrand. Specifically digging into how the pricing page has changed. Zendesk’s design system is now open source. Chris Coyier gives a quick overview of why we should be excited about environment variables and lots more. Enjoy.
Custom domains on GitHub Pages gain support for HTTPS. Rachel Andrews looks into the state of browser support, and how to best test our print styles. An overview of how Slack has implemented their Security Development Lifecycle and lots more. Enjoy.
Brian McKenna shares some thoughts around the negative aspects of design systems. Jeremy Wagner explains how the GIF hosting sites keep their bandwidth bills from going through the roof, and convert those giant GIFs into lean and fast video files. Virgil Almeda tested some scrolling interactions in three different designs and found some do’s and don’ts. Plus loads more. Enjoy.
Zouhir Chahoud explains why Snap Points seems to be a really great option for building Swipe Views. The Calibre CLI was released. Jessica Kerr wrote up her keynote at the Mob Programming conference. Monica Dinculescu has put together a nice explanation and demo of how the float positioning algorithm works and lots more. Enjoy.
Nils Schütte explains the ins and outs to help get you started with Selenium. Heydon Pickering explores how to create inclusive data tables. Chris Coyier shares some great examples and thoughts around some of the more crazy CSS experiments and lots more. Enjoy.
Spectrum is now fully open source. Marko Mišura takes a look at some of the categories and then dives into the nitty gritty of JavaScript design patterns. Greg Jorgensen explains how he does all his programming and system admin work with an iPad Pro. Jeremy Keith introduces his new service worker book and loads more. Enjoy.
Brian Vaughn shares some of the lessons the React team have learned while working on the update and async rendering features, plus some recipes to help prepare your components for the launch. Dr. Axel Rauschmayer looks into the pros and cons of the three programming languages. Emanuel Serbanoiu has compiled a short list of best practices that he actively uses in his daily routine that you might find useful and lots more. Enjoy.
Developer survey results released. Jon Gold shares some wise words about the current tooling landscape and what the near future looks like. He also touches on the newly released Figma API which is super exciting. Jenn Lukas shares some thoughts from the last two years on crafting the CSS design system for her current workplace and loads more. Enjoy.
Nicholas Kramer reminds us that accessibility is a team effort between designers, developers, copywriters, and content creators. Scott Jehl explains how to simplify complex image selection with the new ‘sizes’ attribute. Matthew Ström proposes a new ‘interesting’ idea for the hiring process and loads more. Enjoy.