Interviewing for a Technical Position Doesn’t Have to Be Scary
26.4.2019
Jacob Schatz (@jakecodes) is a staff engineer over at GitLab and was kind enough to share how he conducts job interviews for technical positions and his thinking process for them. Technical interviews are talked about often and can be a touchy subject for some, so it’s worth noting that this...
Corvid by Wix: Accelerated Development of Web Applications
25.4.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
It's been interesting to watch Wix evolve from a website builder into a full-fledged platform for developing web applications. It's still just as easy for anyone to spin up a website with the visual builder that's always been there, but Wix Code was introduced a little...
Collective #511
25.4.2019
bento-starter * HTTP headers for the responsible developer * The CSS Handbook * Sortraits * Widget of the Week
Collective #511 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Using Parcel as a Bundler for React Applications
25.4.2019
You may already be familiar with webpack for asset management on projects. However, there’s another cool tool out there called Parcel, which is comparable to webpack in that it helps with hassle-free asset bundling. Where Parcel really shines is that it requires zero configuration to get up...
Moving from Gulp to Parcel
25.4.2019
Ben Frain just made some notes about the switch from Gulp to Parcel, a relatively new "web application bundler" which, from a quick look at things, is similar to webpack but without all the hassle of setting things up. One of the things I’ve always disliked about webpack is that you kinda have...
Use Artificial Intelligence to Suggest 1-5 Star Ratings
25.4.2019
A handful of products rely on reviews and star-ratings for product feedback. When customers are impressed or dissatisfied about our product, they come back to where it was purchased looking for a w
6 Best GitHub Alternatives for Source Code Management
25.4.2019
GitHub is currently the most popular source code management and hosting platform on the web. It allows you to store and manage code repositories online, using the Git version...
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That Time I Tried Browsing the Web Without CSS
24.4.2019
CSS is what gives every website its design. Websites sure aren’t very fun and friendly without it! I’ve read about somebody going a week without JavaScript and how the experience resulted in websites that were faster, though certain aspects of them would not function as expected.
But CSS. Turning...
Preload, prefetch and other link tags
24.4.2019
Ivan Akulov has collected a whole bunch of information and know-how on making things load a bit more quickly with preload and prefetch. That's great in and of itself, but he also points to something new to me – the as attribute:
<link rel="preload" href="/style.css" as="style"...
How to Build an Underwater-Style Navigation Using PixiJS
24.4.2019
A tutorial on how to create a visually distinct and accessible WebGL menu that builds from any given HTML navigation.
How to Build an Underwater-Style Navigation Using PixiJS was written by Liam Egan and published on Codrops
An Introduction To Storybook: Organize How You Build JS Components
24.4.2019
What is Storybook?
Storybook is an open source tool for developing UI components in isolation and it integrates pretty well with most front end fram
Convert Video to Grayscale
24.4.2019
I’m a JavaScript fanatic but I’ve always been fascinated with media manipulation. Maybe it’s because I’ve secretly always wanted to be a designer, but I’m fine with being able to manipulate art with software instead of create the art myself. One type of art I’ve...