Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rick Byers.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. Equally, code that accurately describes the domain it is modelling is often far easier to understand and change.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 27, 2021

is opinionated about how to organize JavaScript code, but it doesn’t have built-in opinions about how to organize CSS. CSS-in-JS can also have a performance impact by causing additional renders and dependencies on the global state. support doing so with no additional setup; it also yields results that are performant and static.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2). Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2). In this article, we’ll take a deep dive into the refactoring process itself, and cover incremental refactoring strategy, visual regression testing, and maintaining the refactored codebase.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 22, 2020

With the right set of business-centric metrics that focus on the flow of work across the product value stream, IT and business leaders can leverage objective real-time data to identify the bottlenecks slowing them down, inform investment strategy, and measure the impact of changes to steer them in the right direction. To paraphrase W.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Rob also takes a look at the accessibility and performance implications that shadows bring along, as well as how to animate them. Ahmad’s strategies on achieving the cut-out effect. The article also provides plenty of code examples to get started with! Jump to the workshop ?. Improving Image Performance With image-set().

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

Binder, she notes, “was widely used last year for teaching workshops and tutorials at many Python conferences.” Will the incremental strategy of delivering pattern matching and algebraic data types ( Project Amber ) pay off? Will Quarkus bear out its promise and the faith of its early fans?

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Tasktop

JUNE 20, 2019

Developers are also highly impacted by activities that happen downstream from code-commit, like testing, deployment, customer support, and operations. Creates a modular, Agile toolchain: Software innovators require a best-of-breed tool strategy. That’s when bugs, vulnerabilities, and new feature requests are surfaced. Learn more.

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Management textbooks dating at least as far back as the 1980s included stories of employees performing tasks the reasons for which they didn't really understand. There aren't a lot of high cards we can draw, but playing them in the right combination offers us a strategy. This month, we look at our options for re-acquiring it.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Refactoring CSS: Optimizing Size And Performance (Part 3). Refactoring CSS: Optimizing Size And Performance (Part 3). In previous articles from this series, we’ve covered auditing CSS codebase health and the incremental CSS refactoring strategy , testing, and maintenance. Part 2: CSS Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance.

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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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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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Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

However, this simplicity leaves the door open for many potential issues and technical debt — bloated code, specificity hell, duplicated code blocks with very little to no difference, leftover unused selectors, unnecessary hacks, and workarounds, to name a few. Leftover, unused chunks of code from deleted features.

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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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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

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.”. Design systems should be used not only to ensure branding and consistency, but accessibility, inclusivity, and understanding of code better. Have A Team Or Individual Who Is Your Accessibility Advocate(s).

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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. Piecing together a website using a WYSIWYG editor and seeing the code it generated was a fascinating and educational experience that sparked an initial interest in web design. Jump to the workshop ?.

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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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Strategic Tech

JULY 18, 2018

As our legacy systems become less maintainable the negative spiral begins: the code is hard to evolve, nobody enjoys working on it, features take ages to deliver, politics ramp up…. Lack of accountability leads to unmaintainable software that grows harder and harder to change.

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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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Strategic Tech

JUNE 23, 2018

Loosely-coupled teams enabled by loosely-coupled software architecture is one of the strongest predictors of continuous delivery performance and organizational scaling. 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.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2019

Subsequently, the problem of coordinating multiple teams arises, each with their own backlog and performance goals to achieve. Their code is more complex having to support multiple use-cases, and the team becomes a bottleneck?—?multiple The obvious remedy is to add another consumer-specific endpoint for the new consumer.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

We have to specify with great precision in code exactly what our business rules are, and the computer will apply them exactly as we tell it to. The answer is performance, but more importantly concurrency conflicts. Performance and concurrency aren’t a concern. But there is a problem?

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

This has the advantage of reducing the amount of code we need to write, and means it’s less likely we’ll forget to cater for users’ motion preferences: @media (prefers-reduced-motion: no-preference) {.some-element Jump to online workshops ?. In the following code snippet, we have a button that grows in scale on hover.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

To understand the validity of our causal claims, we perform sensitivity analyses to evaluate the robustness of our findings. Sitting at the intersection of content creation and product development, data scientists in this space face some unique challenges: Predicting evidence performance. Beyond average treatment effects.

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