Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Software development without automated testing is hard to imagine today. Cypress’ test runner is open-source, so it fits our product strategy. Example: Finding My Articles in Smashing Magazine. I want to write a test for this website, Smashing Magazine. I only use a slash to open the website of Smashing Magazine.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). Image source: Katie Hempenius ) ( Large preview ). There are many tools allowing you to achieve that: SiteSpeed.io

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Maybe you’re launching some software and need to know how to price it. Or maybe you just want to buy something for yourself and want to make sure you get the best bang for your buck. Web scraping is the practice of extracting large amounts of web data through the use of software. Robert Sfichi. 2021-10-28T11:00:00+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

Just like visually-abled users don’t read every word on a page but scan for interesting things, blind screen reader users don’t make their software read each and every word. With best practices and guidelines on accessibility, assistive technology and inclusive design patterns. More after jump! Online, and live.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

We’ve explored the concepts behind headless CMSes in detail here on Smashing Magazine, but let’s do a quick recap. The CMS itself is provided on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model which I like to term Content-as-as-Service (CaaS). Are there enough open-source resources shared by the people who are using the tool?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Still, the plugin is open-source, has a large community around it, and the creators are actively maintaining it. If you want to remove some of the friction that turning a Figma prototype into a working application can bring along, Klaus Schaefer’s open-source plugin Figma-Low-Code is for you. Jump to online workshops ?.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. This is because, as I stated in the introduction to part 1 , much of the early HTTP/2 content was overly optimistic about how well it would work in practice, and some of it, quite frankly, had major mistakes and bad advice.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

However, TCP is typically implemented in the operating system’s (OS’) kernel, a secure and more restricted environment, which for most OSes isn’t even open source. As such, one best practice or optimization can end up undoing another. And it gets worse. This makes QUIC already a bit slower than TCP. Finally convinced?

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Specific use cases may require image formats that support other features like: Software support: An image format may perform very well but is useless if browsers, CDN’s and other image manipulation tools do not recognize it. The AV1 image file format (AVIF) is an open-source image format for storing still and animated images.

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