Smashing Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

Insight 2: There Are Established Strategies To Tackle Web App Accessibility Problems. In the following Insight, I will introduce you to strategies for supplying accessible notifications , including an easy implementation in Vue.js ( Strategy 1 ), then point you towards recommended patterns and their Vue counterparts ( Strategy 2 ).

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

We then adjusted our build to generate base64-strings for AVIF files automatically during the build time (if author images are available as AVIF images). New Online Workshops on Smashing. Almost a year ago, we started running our very own online workshops , and each and every one has been an incredible experience to our entire team.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Typically, there’s a period where modernization is discussed as the pains of legacy systems and/or ways of working are noticed and become ever more prominent, blocking the business strategy. Some companies talk about modernizing for years before they make a serious commitment. We informally call this the Noticing stage.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 21, 2023

Another important difference is that Web Workers are designed to run in a sandboxed environment , separate from the main thread, which means that they have limited access to system resources and cannot access certain APIs, such as the localStorage or sessionStorage APIs. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS.

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ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 17, 2018

So, they cannot readily avail the benefits of attending conferences. While workshops may help bridge this gap, most workshops focus on a particular research theme and students working on “not hot” or not well established research areas are left out. Next, we outline what we believe such a workshop should provide its students.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

In this three-part series , we are going to go through the CSS refactor process from the beginning to the end, starting with knowledge on how to approach it and some general pros and cons of refactoring, then moving onto the refactoring strategies themselves and ending with some general best practices on CSS file size and performance.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Flexbox Defense is a play on the ‘tower defense’ strategy game genre that teaches you flexbox through 12 challenges where you have to use flexbox syntax to stop incoming enemies from getting past your defenses. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Jump to online workshops ?. Image source: Flexbox Zombies ). Grid Garden.

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Development Games Education Programming 145

Strategic Tech

JUNE 23, 2018

There is a high cost associated with work that leaves your team… team boundaries and software boundaries should be isomorphic” — James Lewis, Thoughtworks I’ve written and spoken a lot about architecting sociotechnical systems and how to find boundaries. And there’s more research to back it up.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The key to loose coupling is to understand how the system you are building is going to change, and minimising the cost of those changes. Items in the inventory can be temporarily borrowed by other bounded contexts in the system by being checked out and checked back in again. It knows if they are available or checked out.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Data Scientists play a vital role in building automated systems that leverage causal inference to decide how we spend our advertising budget. In the absence of true A/B testing, our analyses rely on using the available data to adjust away spurious correlations between the treatment and the outcome metrics. Sensitivity analysis.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Now there’s a massive range of Jamstack CMSs available, which bring all the advantages of static sites while allowing non-technical folk to update content. During the 90s, we saw two content management systems for static sites — Microsoft FrontPage in 1996 and Macromedia Dreamweaver in 1997. Jump to the workshop ?.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Unfortunately, there aren’t any special systems to provide custom statically generated pages for different wildcard subdomains like you may with dynamic routing for example (where you have [slug].js Jump to the workshop ?. Now that we’ve explored the theory of this strategy, let’s explore how we put it into practice. 0]) }, []).

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

Let’s take a look at what some of these testing strategies look like in practice. In his online workshop on Building Modern HTML Emails , Rémi Parmentier will show how to code bulletproof, responsive HTML emails that work well in Gmail, Apple Mail, Yahoo and Outlook today. Jump to the workshop ?. Unit Testing. Online, and live.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

We never used CSS-in-JS or styled-components, but instead a good ol’ component-based system of Sass-modules which would be compiled into CSS. Throughout the workshop, I was diligently taking notes and revisiting the codebase. Once the workshop was over, we got to work. Identifying The Bottlenecks.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

Coordinating efforts across departments may be difficult and time-consuming at first so that support from the top will help alleviate the pressures and burnout that can happen when taking on the task of creating and implementing an accessibility strategy. Have A Team Or Individual Who Is Your Accessibility Advocate(s).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

Or perhaps there is no mistake on our end at all, and it’s a system bug that’s absolutely out of our control. When large parts of the interface are disabled , most customers will assume that the system is busy , and some process is happening in the background on the page. Jump to the workshop ?. Online, and live.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

That happens when your app/website/system is efficient. The key to successful hiring requires a different strategy: a list of strict requirements and versatile aspects to assess. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Jump to online workshops ?. And vice versa. And memorable. And easy to understand. And reliable.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

The project consisted of upgrading the shop software to our own open-source system and redoing the shop’s front end from scratch. Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, CSS/JS and smart interface design patterns.

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 116

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

But first of all, I’d like to make something clear right now — while the act of scraping publicly available data is legal, Amazon has some measures to prevent it on their pages. Scraping those product pages can net you invaluable data such as: The competitors’ pricing strategy. Jump to the workshop ?. Online, and live.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

For a recent technical workshop I did with one of our strategic cloud partners, I created a deck that aims to answer exactly this question. If you want to read up on migration strategies check out my blog on 6-R Migration Strategies. All available in Dynatrace in the UI or through the API!

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Alex Russell

JUNE 13, 2018

It also described the ecosystem dynamics that make change difficult, even before considering the varying firm-level strategies of browser vendors. The norms of standards organisations are set, largely, by social cohesion amongst those working to improve the systems they maintain. Essential Ingredients. And this is expensive time!

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

There truly is no right or wrong way to do this, however, following a typical ideation workshop framework will really help add rigor to the process. While there are many GDPR And CCPA templates and resources available to help you create your own policy, the key questions that must be asked are: What data are you collecting?

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

As discussed in part 2 , in HTTP/2, this multiplexing is steered using its prioritization system. As we also saw, however, this system was very complex , causing it to often be badly used and implemented in practice (see the image below). Luckily, other lower-level tools are available to help with this.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 105

O'Reilly Software

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

He pointed out that culture, process, organizational structure, systems architecture, and the physical plant are very much intertwined, and a determination to change any of those five elements means that all of them have to adapt. After each team presented its strategy, a panel of judges selected the winning team. Not to worry!

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