Defining and Dealing with Technical Debt

We’re all familiar with debt, right? It’s that concept where an amount is owed from one person (the borrower) to another (the lender). We often use it to describe financial situations. For example, I borrow money from a bank. I …

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BoxBox

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BoxBox is a design app that’s currently under development and the designers, Kevin Lynagh and Ryan Lucas, have written a series of articles describing their thoughts that led to its creation. First, they outline the problems with the current state …

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RAIL

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Paul Irish and Paul Lewis describe a way for us to think about web performance: RAIL (Response, Animation, Idle and Load). It’s designed to break up each moment of a user’s experience into actions which can then be specifically optimized.…

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Image Diffing in CSS

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A bonafide CSS trick by Franklin Ta. Position the images on top of each other at 50% opacity and inverted colors. Or, as Bennett Feely pointed out, use background-blend-mode: difference; if they are background images.…

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