Build an Infinite Scroll Image Gallery with React, CSS Grid and Unsplash (Solution to Code Challenge #16)
25.2.2019
Last week on the code challenge we set out to build an image gallery with Infinte Scroll and consuming the Unsplash API. You can complete the challenge here if you haven't.
In this post, we
MVC in an Angular World
25.2.2019
When designing software with a user interface, it is important to structure the code in a way that makes it easy to extend and maintain. Over time, there have been a few approaches in separating ou
Using CSS Grid the right way
22.2.2019
Violet Peña has shared her recommendations for using CSS Grid. They basically boil down to these high-level points:
Use names instead of numbers for setting up our grid columns.
fr should be our flexible unit of choice.
We don’t really need a grid system anymore.
Although this is all great advice...
Writing Animations That Bring Your Site to Life
22.2.2019
Web animation is one of the factors that can strongly enhance your website’s look and feel. Sadly, unlike mobile apps, there aren’t as many websites using animation to their benefit as you would think. We don’t want to count yours among those, so this article is for you and anyone else looking...
WDRL — Edition 258: Colorless Designs, Simple Forms, Native Web Videos, and Rendering The Web.
22.2.2019
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One of the hard problems in web technology is the right balance between technical complexity, smart solutions and a nice user experience that isn’t creating cognitive overload. With Brad Frost’s examples of this gone wrong in Login forms that show how smart technological choices have been...
Blobs!
21.2.2019
I was recently a guest editor for an issue of Bizarro Devs. It's a great newsletter! Go sign up! I put in a bunch of links around blobs. Like those weird squishy random shapes that are so "in" right now. Here are those links as well. I'm always a fan of publishing stuff I write ;)
Blobs! Blobs...
Deliver your best work with the help of monday.com
21.2.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
Here's the situation: You've bashed out a complicated design over two weeks of near full-time effort, gotten everything down to the exact spec of the design file, turn it in for stakeholder review and... you're way off scope. Turns out a few folks on the team put their...
Deliver your best work with the help of monday.com
21.2.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
Here's the situation: You've bashed out a complicated design over two weeks of near full-time effort, gotten everything down to the exact spec of the design file, turn it in for stakeholder review and... you're way off scope. Turns out a few folks on the team put their...
CSS Variables + calc() + rgb() = Enforcing High Contrast Colors
21.2.2019
As you may know, the recent updates and additions to CSS are extremely powerful. From Flexbox to Grid, and — what we’re concerned about here — Custom Properties (aka CSS variables), all of which make robust and dynamic layouts and interfaces easier than ever while opening up many other...
10 Interesting JavaScript and CSS Libraries for February 2019
21.2.2019
This month's web dev collection has it all! Cool CSS frameworks, powerful JS libraries, and a couple of fun projects thrown in for good measure
Collective #494
21.2.2019
Codecrumbs * How @supports Works * Iconsvg * Lunar Popup * Amino * How A Screen Reader User Accesses The Web
Collective #494 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Awesome Analytics with Keen.io (Sponsored)
21.2.2019
As a young developer, I would often make decisions based on what I considered to be common sense or what I would envision appealed to users. What a mistake. As I’ve become more experienced as a developer and a businessman, I’ve realized that analytics are the best way to make...