Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Drew McLellan: He’s a Senior Software Engineer for an agency called Echobind. He loves the Jamstack, and his new book, Cut Into The Jamstack, teaches the reader how to build a software as a service app from scratch. There’s accessibility, best practices, performance and one fourth one. written by Dom Habersack.

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

However, monitoring is a crucial aspect of the development lifecycle which helps software teams move faster, prioritize efforts, and avoid serious issues down the road. This helps taking action directly targeted to the issue instead of simply trusting general best practices. Application Monitoring. Highlight Unusual Events.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Large preview ) For context, I am currently working at a software development company called Q Agency based in Zagreb, Croatia. Now, let’s dive into the technical features and best practices that my team adopted in the process of building the WaterBear web app. for the web app, Sanity CMS, Firebase Auth, and Firestore database.

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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). Technical and sales support. Enterprise features. Infrastructure Integration. GraphQL support.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

When testing new components, it’s already best practice to fork or branch the code , and this new branch may be published into a test environment within UXPin. If you are ready to take the leap, it’s never too late to try out new software and new processes to improve your workflow. Common templates (e.g. In Closing.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

You could internally document them in a collaborative software such as Notion or Dynalist; or an online documentation like Google Docs or Dropbox Paper. Best Practices For Maintaining Accessibility. Documenting guidelines for your organization is as simple as creating a set of accessibility guidelines.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

I founded Instant Domain Search in 2005 and kept it as a side-hustle while I worked on a Y Combinator company (Snipshot, W06), before working as a software engineer at Facebook. We still have a lot of work to do! Large preview ). Our current front-end stack is React served with Next.js It wasn’t enough. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

It is recommended to follow rules and best practices of building and sending emails. Just a couple of years ago one online media for software developers sent a digest to its subscribers by listing them in a Cc field. How can we address these challenges? Large preview ). But how do we know that they work?

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

We last talked to him in July 2020 , where we asked if modern best practices about for the web. Last time we talked, we posed this question of if modern best practices, the use of reactive frameworks and these sorts of things were actually bad for the progress of the web. Drew: You want it to remain unspoiled.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Luis Ouriach published a helpful best-practice guide for structuring your frames in Figma — with consistent naming conventions, descriptive components, and consistent spacing. Illustrate with a vector software, then import it into your design, right? Large preview ). Fonts Preview in Figma. Large preview ).

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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

As such, one best practice or optimization can end up undoing another. Additionally, when sending data from our user-space software (say, browsers and web servers), we need to pass this data to the OS kernel , which then uses TCP or UDP to actually put it on the network. And it gets worse. Finally convinced?

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

Also, these angles are common in VR (virtual reality) software and products. I am not saying you should start typographically undesigning, disregarding years of best practice knowledge, but it goes to show that few things are certain in graphic communication. Further Reading on Smashing Magazine. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

I’d wager, though, that the people qualified to use this kind of software actually benefit from this complexity — it allows them to work efficiently. In this section, I will do my best to outline some of the data visualization best practices and their application in dashboard design. Let’s start with colors.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). From Fast By Default: Modern Loading Best Practices by Addy Osmani (Slides 18, 19). On Smashing Magazine, we could measure 19-32% improvement , too. Image source: Katie Hempenius ) ( Large preview ). Under consideration in Firefox.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). If you want to get started with GraphQL, Eric Baer published two fantastic articles on yours truly Smashing Magazine: A GraphQL Primer: Why We Need A New Kind Of API and A GraphQL Primer: The Evolution Of API Design ( thanks for the hint, Leonardo! ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). On Smashing Magazine, we could measure 19-32% improvement , too. Performance budgets should adapt depending on the network conditions for an average mobile device. Image source: Katie Hempenius ) ( Large preview ).

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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. Lighthouse-best practices audit now considers that AVIF image compression can bring significant improvements.

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