Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Over the last little while, I’ve been able to collect links to several interactive coding tools and apps that can help you supplement your skills in different areas of web development. This is a straightforward flexbox playground that also generates the code for you. Jump to online workshops ?. “code golf”).

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Development Games Education Programming 145

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 21, 2023

They were designed to provide a way to execute JavaScript code in the background, separate from the main execution thread of a web page, in order to improve performance and responsiveness. The main thread is the single execution context that is responsible for rendering the UI, executing JavaScript code, and handling user interactions.

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Efficiency Code Strategy Network 107

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Definitely read up on the strategy and reasoning behind this stack in the first article if you missed it. Meet Smashing Workshops on front-end, design & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. We used an eager loading strategy paired with a high fetchpriority on the images.

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Cache Strategy Best Practices Design 72

Smashing Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

Between an endless amount of code to make sure you’re providing full coverage and dealing with the fragile nature of front-end tests — where a simple selector change can completely break an end-to-end workflow — it can sometimes feel like an uphill battle. They’re all testing the code. Jump to the workshop ?.

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Testing Code Design Strategy 142

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Ahmad’s strategies on achieving the cut-out effect. The article also provides plenty of code examples to get started with! To achieve it, Rauno uses an experimental CSS property element() to display a live image from an arbitrary HTML element (which currently only available in Firefox). Jump to the workshop ?. CSS Charts.

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Games Design Strategy Code 144

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Jump to the workshop ?. In code, that looks like this: export async function getServerSideProps(context) { let wildcard = context.req.headers.host.split(".")[0]; This approach, however, is far from perfect as there is a delay between the page’s first render and the wildcard being available. Online, and live. Dec 2–3, 2021.

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Servers Website Code Best Practices 84

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

However, unlike the early days of the web, static sites are no longer limited to developers working in a code editor. 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. Jump to the workshop ?. Online, and live.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

Smashing Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

You will need a way of reaching the specific kind of client you would like to work with, and that needs a strategy that word of mouth cannot supply. Unfortunately, it is just as easy to get that strategy wrong, and doing so can prove a waste of time and money. Jump to the workshop ?. The Problem With Traditional Approaches.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

And suddenly, before you know it, the code base gets a little bit overweight and fragmented , third-party scripts have to load just a little bit earlier, and shiny new dynamic content finds its way into the DOM through the backdoors of fourth-party scripts and their uninvited guests. Once the workshop was over, we got to work.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

When maintenance is needed, it won’t take the team as long to maintain the code because of accessibility and clean code.”. If there is no inter-organizational accessibility training available your organization can look into different methods of training like the kind WebAIM , the ADA , or Knowbility has to offer.

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Website Mobile Design Testing 145

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

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. But how well we can do so depends on whether the available data is sufficient to account for all such correlations. Sensitivity analysis.

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Innovation Metrics Engineering Testing 243

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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Website Code Retail Best Practices 115

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

We might have typed in all the right data, and have chosen all the right settings, and perhaps even went to the trouble of finding a working discount code, and even have crafted a perfect gift message. Jump to the workshop ?. Online, and live. Aug 18 & 20, 2021. Inline Validation Is Never Bulletproof.

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Design Transportation Code Systems 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

It all starts with a Code of Ethics. “I Outcomes of a code of ethics affect almost every aspect of your user research practice, from processes to templates and team environment. Outcomes of a code of ethics affect almost every aspect of your user research practice, from processes to templates and team environment.

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Code Design Education Government 137

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. Jump to online workshops ?. This has the nice effect of making them directly available to the browser when the document loads, but obviously the browser cannot cache them for the whole website.

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 116

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The key to successful hiring requires a different strategy: a list of strict requirements and versatile aspects to assess. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. Jump to online workshops ?.

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Design Website Efficiency Games 113

Strategic Tech

JUNE 23, 2018

Whenever a team starts on a piece of work they should own all of the code and infrastructure that needs to change in order to deliver the work. Where we place boundaries impacts our ability to innovation, the quality of our UX, and execution of our strategy. So the responsibility of GDPR was given to a team who had available capacity.

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Systems Social Media Design Media 40

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. There is no code or configuration change necessary to capture data and detect existing services. If you want to read up on migration strategies check out my blog on 6-R Migration Strategies.

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