Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

The world’s first website was made from static HTML files created in a text editor. Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. Mike Neumegen. released 1998.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

Component-based design, enabled and enforced by modern JavaScript frameworks, does not only provide great developer experiences and project ergonomics when used in a smart way, but it can also offer advantages for accessibility. For that, a web developer’s headline toolbox contains six levels ( <h1> to <h6> ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2021

Two versions available: Designers can use the Flagpack in Figma and Sketch, developers can install it directly within their code project (React, Vue, and Svelte are supported). Six different styles are available, abstract patterns just like friendly smileys. Jump to the workshop ?. No more boring business websites!

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

These are just a couple of examples of what disabled users face daily when they try and access a website that is inaccessible. The case for accessibility is this; we as stakeholders, managers, teams, designers and developers need to do better in not only practicing accessibility but advocating for it as well.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

This space can act as its own website — not tied to anything. For example, later in this article, we’ll be developing a web toy that flips a webpage upside down making it readable for Australians. Difficulties with Development. Jump to the workshop ?. development" ? Hosting Content And Personal Portfolios.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

It may seem enchanting how well-designed apps or websites can boost your sales, but it takes far more than a handful of fairy dust to make users enjoy their interactions. That happens when your app/website/system is efficient. Jump to online workshops ?. And vice versa. And memorable. And easy to understand. And reliable.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 23, 2022

Some answers from the community surprised me, as they’ve included some very useful and often-requested CSS features which were made available in the past year or two. Custom properties brought significant improvements to CSS by allowing developers to create reusable values in their stylesheet without the need for CSS preprocessor like SASS.

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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. As such, I urge you always to be mindful of the website while scraping, take care not to damage it, and follow ethical guidelines. Online, and live.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The “Changes” panel should be already available by default and next to the “Computed” tab. Also offers the “Changes” panel by default, located in the same tab bar as the “Styles” Recommended Reading : “ Examine And Edit CSS ,” Firefox Developer Tools, MDN Web Docs. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Real-life performance for your users and how the website “feels” when you’re using it should not be discounted, even if it costs you a point or two in Page Speed (otherwise, we would all just have a search bar and unstyled text).

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Experimentation and causal inference data scientists who work directly with Netflix business units develop deep domain understanding and intuition about the business areas where they work. 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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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

JavaScript-based frameworks like React made the process of developing web applications streamlined and efficient, for better or worse. This automatization often leads developers to treat a framework and build tools as a black box. Jump to online workshops ?. Website performance is not consistent across devices.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

If you’d like to dive a bit deeper into animation with Figma, a guide to adding animation to your designs in Figma shows the entire workshop, and various options you have, step-by-step. The A11y Annotation Kit focuses on accessibility considerations that designers might want to share with developers when handing off a design.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 21, 2023

Exploring The Potential Of Web Workers For Multithreading On The Web Exploring The Potential Of Web Workers For Multithreading On The Web Sarah Oke Okolo 2023-04-21T10:00:00+00:00 2023-04-21T11:15:35+00:00 Web Workers are a powerful feature of modern web development and were introduced as part of the HTML5 specification in 2009.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

In his upcoming online workshop The TypeScript Masterclass , Stefan Baumgartner will dive into type systems and how to use them well when writing JavaScript. Jump to the workshop ?. A mistake could be made when you work with several projects/websites. Online, and live. August 5–19, 2021. How To Test Sending Infrastructure.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

This Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, and it will provide even lower latency to users across the Middle East. We already have 44 Availability Zones across 16 geographic Regions that customers can use today. This news marks the 22nd AWS Region we have announced globally.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

By adding automated visual testing , we can eliminate those flaky tests , leveling up our testing pipelines providing that coverage (and more) by taking advantage of smart image comparisons using screenshots of our website or app. Automated testing is an interesting part of the development cycle. Jump to the workshop ?.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

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 ?. By the way, there’s also a PostCSS plugin available that does the same, as well as a hand-coded solution. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

All of these techniques basically involve setting aside the correct amount of space before additional content is loaded — whether that is media or JavaScript-injected content, but there’s a few different options available to web developers to do this. Jump to online workshops ?. Set Width And Heights On Images And iFrames.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 7, 2021

You need to sign up for the Interactive Components Beta program to start experimenting with this new feature as it is not yet available in the current stable release. These are known in development as Events and are the different ways we the user can activate an interaction. Jump to the workshop ?. Online, and live.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

It allows developers to define, handle, and make queries/mutations available within our application. website to download the latest version. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A.

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Jos

APRIL 6, 2018

Componentization has marked a before and after in web development. You can check Website Sameness or Web Design Trends: Why Do All Websites Look The Same? Here is an example taken from the React Alicante website. progress * 4 ) } workshops · { Math. Componentizing generally makes testing and maintenance easier.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

A later version of the slides is included in my Microservices Workshop deck from later that year, slides 168–200 ( pdf , keynote are available in GitHub.com/adrianco/slides ). What Is the Expected Distribution of Website Response Times? It takes a histogram, and returns a data frame containing the peaks.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

It always starts with the long-awaited website overhaul. Harry Roberts ran his (excellent) Web Performance Masterclass as an online workshop with us, and throughout the entire workshop, he was using Smashing as an example by highlighting issues that we had and suggesting solutions to those issues alongside useful tools and guidelines.

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Jos

APRIL 5, 2018

Componentization has marked a before and after in web development. You can check Website Sameness or Web Design Trends: Why Do All Websites Look The Same? Here is an example taken from the React Alicante website. progress * 4 ) &#125; workshops · &#123; Math. This post is also available in Spanish.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2021

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 ?. I have been wanting to develop another app using Svelte ever since I built neolightsout. More after jump! and Express.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

Example: Swedish public transportation website. After all, as designers and developers, we want to make it more difficult for our users to make mistakes. A wonderful interface of the Swedish public transportation website with a button that’s initially disabled, but becomes accessible once a selection is made. Online, and live.

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The Symphonia

MARCH 14, 2018

The general goal of SAR is to make it easier to distribute, and consume, applications that have been developed using AWS Serverless products, like Lambda. A couple of great things about Serverless technologies is that applications using Serverless are incredibly quick to develop, and in low-usage scenarios cost very little or nothing to run.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 14, 2021

We do so by breaking our intent down into a set of available features. Jump to the workshop ?. The overall experience is quite frustrating and disorienting, also because the website feels slow, and it always takes more and more effort to continue filtering. Please note that an option to clear all filters is available as well.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Sadly, this is something that you, as an average web developer, can’t do much about, because it’s mainly a problem in the browsers and servers themselves. First, few of their developers were involved with HTTP/3 from the start, and now they have to play catch-up. Image source: Andy Davies ) ( Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2020

Local screen-printing workshops offered affordable flyers and posters. You can still find copies available on eBay. The Story of The Face: The Magazine that Changed Culture’ by Paul Gorman is more readily available, as is a compendium of all twenty issues of FUSE. I still have the backstage pass which Billy signed for me.

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