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One of the hardest decisions to make when starting a new app is which platforms to target. A mobile app gives you more control and better performance but isn’t as universal as the web. If you’re making a mobile app, can you afford to support both iOS and Android? What about trying to build a […]
The following is a guest post by Damon Bauer, who tackles a pretty common web developer job: offering user image uploads. I’d hesitate to call it easy, but with the help of some powerful tools that do a lot of the heavy lifting, this job has gotten a heck of a lot easier than it […]
I like beer. In fact, I like it so much that I decided to build a web app that showcases all the amazing different types that are out there! I’ve called it Progressive Beer. I’ve been experimenting a lot with Service Workers lately, and building a web application with this technology in mind seemed like […]
Fractal is a tool to help you build and document web component libraries, and then integrate them into your projects.
Microcopy is the unsung hero of copywriting. Used in apps and transactions, microcopy or short-form copy is the text you see on buttons, labels, fields and in error boxes. It tells users what to do, explains anything that could be confusing and injects moments of personality and delight.
We have changed how Typekit loads fonts, and the default embed code no longer causes a distracting flash in Chrome. We’ve also taken the opportunity to squeeze in other performance updates we’ve had in the works for a while, so you should notice speedier font loading regardless of which browser you use.
Using relative units for measurements has a lot of advantages, but can cause a lot of heartache if inheritance goes wrong. But as I’ll demonstrate, BEM methodology and some clever standardization can reduce or eliminate the downsides.
Static site generators are pretty en vogue nowadays. It is as if developers around the world are suddenly realizing that, for most websites, a simple build process is easy enough to render the last 20 years of content management systems useless. All right, that’s a bit over the top. But for the average website without […]