Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As I was determined to become great at my new occupation regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin book, article, and magazine I could find on the shelf. It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology. It was a great privilege.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. Check out her writing about business and technology on her own site at rachelandrew.co.uk , and follow her on Twitter @ rachelandrew , where she tweets about CSS, tech topics, and much more. Rachel Andrew. Jake Archibald. Jake Archibald.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

New technologies, libraries, and techniques are continuously emerging and if you want to stay on top of all these changes you will need to immerse yourself in communities, groups, and conferences all revolving around web development. Smashing Magazine Smashing Magazine is an established resource for those who want to master the front end.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 13, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. When I began working with the legendary newspaper and magazine designer Mark Porter, I became fascinated by art direction and editorial design. When a magazine has plenty of interesting design elements, I buy it. Avaunt magazine.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

An example in case is this same website, Smashing Magazine. That’s why all avatars, the arrow button, and many other elements are all tilted, at the same angle as the Smashing logo is: Tilted elements in Smashing Magazine ( Large preview ). What about images? to demonstrate its transformation capabilities. Let’s start!

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

I wouldn’t mistake anything I’ve seen for the work of a great (or even good) poet, but companies like Hallmark provide a market for millions of lines of verse, and that market is probably more lucrative than the market for poets who publish in “ little magazines.” This technology may be useful for repairing damaged works of art.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2021

How To Develop Your Business’ Technology Roadmap. How To Develop Your Business’ Technology Roadmap. At some point, though, we need to sit down with clients and give them a sometimes sobering reality: software development without a business technology roadmap can be a lot like driving aimlessly from point A to point Z.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 15, 2006

Earlier this year my good friend and mentor Jim Gray dropped by at Amazon to interview me for ACM Queue magazine. I had real fun with Jim’s questions and I like to believe that the resulting interview is interesting. It appeared in this month’s edition and runs about 8 pages in the print edition.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

In a way, technology also created new typeface classifications. Because technology has made it possible to design typefaces easier than ever before, we seem to be reinventing “different types of wheels” that already get the job done. They were all designed for slightly different contexts and technological times. Large preview ).

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Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 17, 2013

edition of the Performance Calendar : Bad performance online is not a technological problem; it’s a cultural one. Tools are increasing in number and improving in quality. Posts and books are written explaining the tricks and techniques to use to make your site weigh less, load faster and scroll more smoothly.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Digital HMI just recently became a mass-market technology. Further Reading On Smashing Magazine. With detailed code walkthroughs , hands-on examples and common gotchas — all broken down into short, manageable lessons. For developers who know enough JavaScript to be dangerous. Jump to table of contents ?. Benefits Of Using Digital HMI.

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Rigor

JUNE 12, 2019

Alla Gringaus has worked with a multitude of well-established technology and media brands, including TIME , People , The Economist , and the American Kennel Club, carrying hands-on and leading roles in front-end development and UX, all driven by user-centered design. Introducing…Alla Gringaus. Ilya Grigorik – @ igrigorik.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 28, 2020

In issue 8, I explained how to help people who use assistive technology using adding ARIA to SVGs. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. NB: Smashing members have access to a beautifully designed PDF of Andy’s Inspired Design Decisions magazine and full code examples from this article. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

So, having some free time in quarantine, I decided to check whether one of the most evolving industries right now, education technology (EdTech), uses this potential of UX. Computer Electronics” and “Technology” appear to be the most popular course categories among edX students. Take SimilarWeb.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 23, 2020

Recently, I was browsing a new addition to my library and was captivated by one magazine spread. A selection of covers from Otto Storch’s time as art director for McCall’s Magazine. Publishing can be a cut-throat business, and the magazines Storch worked on weren’t high-fashion. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

The Core Web Vitals initiative gives us a way of seeing the impact on real user web browsing, and the Core Web Vitals Technology Report allows us to see these figures by site based on HTTP Archive monthly crawls. seconds — the best number Smashing Magazine has ever seen since the Core Web Vitals initiative was launched.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Since then, technology has evolved, and what started with naked-eye observations has become a sophisticated and accurate technology to measure eye movements. Eye-tracking is nothing but new, but recent developments in technology made the methodology accessible to businesses of all sizes. “. Mobile UX Research.

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Tim Kadlec

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

My first few sites were simple (and ugly) things I put together using Notepad and an FTP client while teaching myself HTML using a little magazine I bought. Building your core understanding of the web and the underlying technologies that power it will help you to better understand when and how to utilize abstractions.

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Adrian Cockcroft

AUGUST 23, 2018

I first became aware of Citroen’s as a child when my father pointed out a Citroen DS and told me about it’s advanced aerodynamics and technology, including the hydropneumatic suspension system. Much later a friend with a similar obsession about the SM gave me a copy of the magazine in return for a drive of my car.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Physics and the limits of human perception - Why goalkeepers have trouble stopping long-range shots - Seed Magazine. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. My most interesting picture this week : A green, purple, yellow & orange Steinway. Arts & Society. A great podcast interview. APAC Summer Tour.

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Each is a new take on an old theme, echoing one part of the contradiction that has riddled every business with a captive technology department: we want to minimize how much we spend on IT, and we want IT to be a source of innovation. Personal technology such as spreadsheets and smartphones empowers increasingly tech-savvy knowledge workers.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 25, 2012

There are a multitude of books, magazines, newspapers, blog posts, articles, videos and podcasts just clamoring for our attention. Technology, though, is supposed to work for us. There is no shortage of information floating around today. It’s an incredible thing, this wealth of information we have at our fingertips.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

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. I vividly remember receiving a PC Magazine for my birthday with a trial of Dreamweaver. Large preview ). Government.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

In this screenshot below, for example, we can see that loading the Smashing Magazine website for the first time incurs just under a megabyte of data transfer. Using HTTPS opens up a world of new web technologies like service workers that allow us to treat the network itself as a nice-to-have. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

The great thing today is that you can use the same technologies used by Netflix or Hulu to deliver your videos. It almost sounds like magic, but let’s look at the technology and how it works. From time to market, cost (and cognitive overhead), the best way to add video is to utilize a video streaming service.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

Approximately two-thirds of Indian mobile Chrome users of Smashing Magazine have this setting turned on, for example. For Smashing Magazine, that involved dropping some of our web fonts. And Is It Used? Again, I talked about this that previous article , and the answer is a resounding yes! Data Saver. Network Signals. 2g , and 0.3%

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

We’ll come to understand how important it is to understand mobile technology and use patterns, and become aware that mobile paradigms are influencing more traditional computing platforms. The History and Technology of Touch. +. Capacitive Touch. +. Standards, Assumptions, and Problems. +. Finding Out How People Hold and Touch. +.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

I became fascinated by the ways magazine art directors including Alexey Brodovitch and Bea Feitler brought images and text together. From early on, he was inspired by print designs, especially magazines, and used this influence to design the college’s yearbooks. Thompson studied at Washburn College in his home city of Topeka.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

For years, we waited patiently for browsers to adopt CSS technology faster. This has allowed many of us to explore newer CSS technologies more freely: CSS Grid, clamp() , background-blend-mode , and more. With Carie Fisher, Stefan Baumgartner and so many others. Jump to online workshops ?. The state of CSS property support is great.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The phrase sums up end-to-end testing well: It simulates actual user workflows and should include as many functional areas and parts of the technology stack used in the application as possible. Example: Finding My Articles in Smashing Magazine. I want to write a test for this website, Smashing Magazine. How does that work?

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 23, 2007

1 The same applies to an Information Technology organisation that is core to achieving alpha returns : it needs the management practices to match high-capability people. In the 1970s it spawned tremendous innovation in personal computing technology. The goal, the defined solution, the people, and the technologies constantly change.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. After learning about Alexey Brodovitch ’s influential work on Harper’s Bazaar until the 1950s, I wanted to know the impact his legacy had on the magazine. Feitler has as much to teach people who design for the web as she did the magazine designers who followed her. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2019

I started a magazine collection, studied books on art direction and graphic design, and discovered art directors, including Alexey Brodovitch, Neville Brody, Bea Feitler, and Tom Wolsey. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Magazine Anatomy. Time away helped me rediscover my enthusiasm for design. Ernest Journal.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Changes in the technology of touch over time mean that many assumptions and standards of how to design for touch from just a few decades ago are no longer relevant — and may be actively misleading or dangerous.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 28, 2021

Mark it as a dialog for assistive technologies ( role="dialog" ). Once again, I would advise against rolling out your own dialog library since it’s not the most straightforward and errors could be highly problematic for assistive technology users. Make the rest of the page inert when open ( aria-modal="true" ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2021

Almost 4,000 icons have been carefully designed and reviewed for the project, ranging from UX and technology-themed emojis to animals, nature, food, people, activities, places, and much more. The icons are available in colored as well as outlined versions in SVG and PNG formats. 4,000 friendly icons make up OpenMoji. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Further Reading On Smashing Magazine. Choosing A New Serverless Database Technology At An Agency (Case Study) , Michael Rispoli. Also, if you have ideas on how to make this solution better, or other alternative solutions, I would love to hear about your feedback/tips/experiences in the comments below.

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