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Laying the Foundations
18.10.2019
Here’s a new book by Andrew Couldwell all about design systems and his team’s experience at Sprout Social. For a while now they’ve been building Seeds, a brand guide that the internal team can and reference for brand and design-related things, including patterns, variables, and components....
Decentralized Finance Projects Are Starting to Ship
27.9.2019
Defi, defi, defi. You can’t go anywhere in crypto these days without having that contraction thrown at you. 2017 was all about the ICO, 2018 was about surviving the bear market, and early 2019 was a toss-up between IEO and STO. Now, as we prepare to enter Q4 of 2019, it’s all about...
Hamburger Menu with a Side of React Hooks and Styled Components
10.9.2019
We all know what a hamburger menu is, right? When the pattern started making its way into web designs, it was both mocked and applauded for its minimalism that allows main menus to be tucked off screen, particularly on mobile where every pixel of space counts.
CSS-Tricks is all about double...
Using Percy to add visual testing to a Jekyll site
27.6.2019
Visual testing is the automated process of reviewing software from a purely visual standpoint. Instead of testing the code underneath, visual testing is all about what end users actually see and interact with.
Similar to functional testing, however, visual testing fits directly into your stack...
Using Percy to add visual testing to a Jekyll site
27.6.2019
Visual testing is the automated process of reviewing software from a purely visual standpoint. Instead of testing the code underneath, visual testing is all about what end users actually see and interact with.
Similar to functional testing, however, visual testing fits directly into your stack...
Crypto Market Shakes Up in a Day: Bulls Are All About LTC, ETP, AOA, FTM, and QBIT
11.6.2019
A remarkable momentum in the overall crypto market has been noted as a few cryptocurrencies have been busy with bull-runs over a day. A little unexpected happening here is that the cryptos which have seen a large difference in their price today are not from the ‘top 3 cryptos’ category. The crypto...
An Overview Of NEM Delegated Harvesting Mainly For Security Purpose
25.5.2019
The New Economy Movement (NEM) is the platform for the blockchain system to bring new features. Smart Asset blockchain is a technology platform aimed at managing assets and data easily and cost-effectively. A better blockchain utilizing a method called harvesting is established on the NEM platform...
Facebook’s Secret Project Libra: Is It Going To Launch Stablecoin-Based Payments Network?
15.5.2019
According to a report published by the Wall Street Journal, Facebook’s much-awaited Stablecoin will focus on brand new payments network. The blockchain initiative called Project Libra will internally implicate a Stablecoin which will be backed by government currency. The report can be read...
Walking Through The Potential And The Cautions For The Telegram’s Token ‘Gram’
13.5.2019
From April 2017, when the concept of project of TON (Telegram Open Network) was first built, the journey up till now has been quite interesting. In the same year, developments such as platform development, token model approval, platform testing, and testing of the platform’s native token- ‘Gram’...
Litecoin (LTC) Price Analysis: Is It All About Remaining Vigilant Over BTC’s Price To Decide Whether To Invest On LTC Or Not?
11.5.2019
Majority crypto enthusiasts think that LTC will do good this year. But, simultaneously, they are also making investors remind of the fact that the current crypto market is highly volatile so any prediction will not be perfect as these are bound to change at any time. LTC is definitely one of...
A historical look at lowercase defaultstatus
1.4.2019
Browsers, thank heavens, take backward compatibility seriously.
Ancient websites generally work just fine on modern browsers. There is a way higher chance that a website is broken because of problems with hosting, missing or altered assets, or server changes than there is with changes in...
All About mailto: Links
22.3.2019
You can make a garden variety anchor link (<a>) open up a new email. Let's take a little journey into this feature. It's pretty easy to use, but as with anything web, there are lots of things to consider.
The basic functionality
<a href="mailto:someone@yoursite.com">Email...
Technical Debt is Like Tetris
21.3.2019
Here’s a wonderful post by Eric Higgins all about refactoring and technical debt. He compares giant refactoring projects to being similar to Tetris:
Similar to running a business, Tetris gets harder the longer you play. Pieces move faster and it becomes harder to keep up.
Similar to running...
The Slow and Steady Refactor
28.1.2019
Over the past week or so, I’ve been reading Refactoring by Martin Fowler and it’s all about how to make sweeping changes to a large codebase in a way that doesn’t cause everything to break. I bring this up because there’s a lot of really good notes in this book that have challenged my recent...
SVG Filter Effects: Outline Text with <feMorphology>
22.1.2019
In this second part of our SVG Filter series you'll learn all about the feMorphology filter, how it works and how you can use it to create interesting effects.
SVG Filter Effects: Outline Text with <feMorphology> was written by Sara Soueidan and published on Codrops
Your Body Text is Too Small
21.7.2018
Several years ago, there was a big push by designers to increase the font-size of websites and I feel like we’re living in another era of accessibility improvements where a fresh batch of designers are pushing for even larger text sizing today. Take this post by Christian Miller, for example, where...
Design Systems at GitHub
12.7.2018
Here’s a nifty post by Diana Mounter all about the design systems team at GitHub that details how the team was formed, the problems they've faced and how they've adapted along the way:
When I started working at GitHub in late 2015, I noticed that there were many undocumented patterns, I had...
CSS Grid in IE: Debunking Common IE Grid Misconceptions
2.7.2018
This is the first in a three-part series all about how to use CSS grid in a way that will work not only in modern browsers but also in Internet Explorer (IE). Imagine writing CSS grid code without having to write a fallback layout! Many of us think that this is some far off future that is many...