I did not set out to build tiny progressive web apps. Well, that’s not true; I set out to build PWAs that solve particular problems in my life, which ended up being tiny. Then it just became fun. You see my car, a 2005 Prius, has a terrible glitch in the dashboard where the dash simply doesn’t work.…

Let’s say there is a divide happening in front-end development. I feel it, but it's not just in my bones. Based on an awful lot of written developer sentiment, interviews Dave Rupert and I have done on ShopTalk , and in-person discussion, it’s, as they say... a thing . The divide is between people…

Red Dead Redemption 2 will be available October 26. Photo: Courtesy of Rockstar Games You can’t simply stroll into the Manhattan offices of Rockstar Games. If you make it past the downstairs lobby and up the elevator, a thick metal door blocks your way. After you’re buzzed inside, you’ll need to…

Improving Time-To-Interactive for Netflix.com on Desktop Addy Osmani Nov 5, 2018 · 7 min read tl;dr: There are no silver bullets to web performance. Simple static pages benefit from being server-rendered with minimal JavaScript. Libraries can provide great value for complex pages when used with…

Addy Osmani Oct 8, 2018 · 7 min read If you’re building a web experience and want to stay fast, a performance budget can be critical . For success, embrace performance budgets and learn to live within them. Network & CPU limits on mobile can require asking hard questions like, “what is really…

Five Concepts for Designing Augmented Reality Apps Nathan Gitter Sep 9, 2018 · 5 min read Imagine a future where everyone is wearing “AR glasses”, and digital content isn’t limited to screens. Would that future look like this? Maybe. It raises some questions: If we can display content next to the…

Hark! What breaks over yonder horizon? A new paravelinc.com homepage! Paravel is entering our 12th year of business together and over the years we’ve laughed, we’ve cried, had babies, and had countless terrible fights about websites. We love what we do. The most notable portion of this update are…

Pinterest Engineering May 2, 2018 · 3 min read Brian Donohue | Pinterest engineering manager, Product Engineering About 100 days ago, our product engineering team began experimenting with a three-day no-meeting schedule for individual contributors on our teams. It’s not a big revelation that…

This says that this particular text element should be positioned relative to the top of the parent, and should stretch with the parent horizontally such that the left and right margins are preserved. The parent in this case is the rectangle surrounding “List item 1”. Applying constraints out of the…

Everything you always wanted to know about implementing scrolling but were afraid to ask. We have scrolled to the bottom of modern web specifications to take you on a whirlwind tour of latest CSS and JavaScript features that make navigating around a single page smooth, beautiful and less…

Last week I took part in the Third Annual Phil Patton Lecture , hosted by the Masters Program in Design Research at The School of Visual Arts in New York. The event is held in honor of the program’s former faculty member, design journalist Phil Patton , who passed away in 2015. Its format is a bit…

Here’s another interesting bug related to IOS11 PWAs: https://medium.com/coding-snippets/fixing-ios-11-web-apps-apple-mobile-web-app-capable-e5ed1a8c66e0

A few years ago, I was hired to work as a consultant on a software project for a large French tech company. What I have witnessed there is beyond everything I could possibly have imagined in terms of software engineering. Far more serious than just a lack of professional competence was the utmost…

Posted 27 February 2018 A few days ago there was a lot of chatter about a 'keylogger' built in CSS . Some folks called for browsers to 'fix' it. Some folks dug a bit deeper and saw that it only affected sites built in React-like frameworks, and pointed the finger at React. But the real problem is…

Lara Hogan Feb 22, 2018 · 4 min read A tool for gaining a shared understanding of responsibilities Upon arrival at Meetup as a “fractional” VP of Engineering, I began to hear something that I hear at lots of organizations: confusion about team leaders’ roles and responsibilities. Product teams…

In this post, we’ll have a closer look at two new tools in the front-end world. They are both developed with simplicity and ease of use in mind. First one is a tiny frontend framework called Hyperapp, the second is an asset bundler by the name of Parcel. Together they might be the best way to…

Resource Hints - What is Preload, Prefetch, and Preconnect? By Brian Jackson Updated on March 19, 2019 Today we are going to explore current resource hints and directives which can be another great way to boost the performance on your website or web application. You might have heard of preload,…

I’ve been at the Corporate Design game for a while now. I’ve been a Web Designer, an Interaction Designer, a UX/UI Designer, a Product Designer, a Lead, a Manager — hell, I was even a Full Stack Designer at one point. The way I’ve perceived my role at any given time, including the titles, have…

About The Author Vitaly Friedman loves beautiful content and doesn’t like to give in easily. When he is not writing or speaking at a conference, he’s most probably running …More about VitalyFriedman … January 7, 2019 Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word] Upgrade your inbox…

David Gilbertson Jan 6, 2018 · 10 min read The following is a true story. Or maybe it’s just based on a true story. Perhaps it’s not true at all. It’s been a frantic week of security scares — it seems like every day there’s a new vulnerability. It’s been a real struggle for me personally to pretend…

Silicon Valley is slow to come to terms with the fact that it’s become the new Wall Street. In September, I met with a prominent entrepreneur looking for positive press on his new project. Meetings like these are a common, usually formulaic, part of my job—except in this one, the conversation…

The Estonian government is so eager to take on big problems that many ambitious techies leave the private sector to join it. Illustration by Eiko Ojala Audio: Listen to this story. To hear more feature stories, download the Audm app for your iPhone. Up the Estonian coast, a five-lane highway bends…

Consider the daily schedule of famed novelist Haruki Murakami. When he’s working on a novel, he starts his days at 4 am and writes for five or six continuous hours. Once the writing is done, he spends his afternoons running or swimming, and his evenings, reading or listening to music before a 9 pm…

New York State Attorney General Nov 21, 2017 · 4 min read Dear FCC Chairman Ajit Pai: As you recently announced, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), under your leadership, soon will release rules to dismantle your agency’s existing “net neutrality” protections under Title II of the…

Last week, we released our first annual State of Open Source Security report . One of the discoveries the report mentions is that an analysis of around 433,000 sites found that 77% of them use at least one front-end JavaScript library with a known security vulnerability. This number mirrors the one…

Mentally Friendly Dec 22, 2016 · 6 min read By Christopher Ellis (Digital product designer) Interruption [in-t uh - ruhp -sh un n] An interruption is something that takes you away from the task you are trying to complete that is unrelated to that task. They have many formats. Some of the worst…

read A few months back I wrote a comparison between RPC and REST for Smashing Magazine, and now I want to talk about the differences between REST and GraphQL: the new kid on the block. GraphQL is incorrectly considered by some to be a "replacement" to REST . GraphQL is a newer concept, being…

Svilen Jun 21, 2017 · 5 min read Design challenges are nothing new- plenty of companies use them in order to assess potential employees’ problem solving skills. But a Google interview challenge in particular seems to have captivated the global design community: Designers from around the world have…

Aaron Swartz once said, "It's no longer OK not to understand how the Internet works." He was talking to law-makers, policy-makers and power-brokers, people who were, at best, half-smart about technology -- just smart enough to understand that in a connected world, every problem society has involves…

Toby Melville/TPX/Reuters British Prime Minister Theresa May on her way to Buckingham Palace to ask the Queen’s permission to form a minority government, London, June 9, 2017 To understand the sensational outcome of the British election, one must ask a basic question. What happens when phony…

The word​ cunt was invented by the Norwegians. At first the OED wouldn’t have it in its pages and even today the dictionary describes it as the most taboo word in English. Norsemen said kunta and the

‘The problem is, a small group of companies ruling the world, just as with people, is not a good thing.’Photograph: JGI/Tom Grill/Getty Images/Blend Images L et’s say you woke up this morning and after stopping your alarm clock, asked it to play some get-up-and-go music. You go to make breakfast and…

Note: If you want to print this post or read it offline, the PDF is probably the way to go. You can buy it here . And here’s a G-rated version of the post , appropriate for all ages. _______________________ Last month, I got a phone call. Okay maybe that’s not exactly how it happened, and maybe…