GitHub Desktop was released late last week.
Wait, doesn’t GitHub already have two desktop apps? If the same question crossed your mind when you first read that, then you are not alone. Yes, GitHub did have two desktop apps—one …
There are many ways to make visual representations of data: bar charts, line graphs, scatter diagrams, sparklines… not to mention the many ways in which you can implement them on the web. In this post I’ll be looking at plain …
The CSS clip-path property is one of the most underused and yet most interesting properties in CSS. It can be used in conjunction with CSS Shapes to create interesting layouts, and can be taken to the extreme to create some …
Major performance gains are to be had from browser caching CSS. You ensure your server is set up to send headers that tell the browser to hang onto the CSS file for a given amount of time. It’s a best-practice …
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Say you have a time you’d like to display on your site. You’ve entered it in your time zone. You can always be specific and say something like: 3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time. Then leave it up to whoever …
Sara Simon‘s recent Burlington Ruby Conf talk, repurposed as an essay. It’s about exploring different approaches to becoming fluent in a programming language. But, it’s also about:
…[W]hat we can learn about software development when we step away from
A visual and linked-up version of the template hierarchy. If you work on WordPress sites, it’s good to know how everything kinda waterfalls down towards the index.php file. That file is what will be be used to render any …
A cleverly illustrated website that takes a look at what happens after you enter a URL into the browser. This answers questions like what is a root server and what the heck is an IP address?…
We’ve taken an in-depth look at how SVG line drawing works before. It’s a clever trick where you use dashed lines for the stroke, but the gap in the dash is so long it covers the entire path. Then you …
This isn’t the regular Notifications API, this is more like phone notifications, where you don’t even have to (have the app open || be on the website) for it to work. Uses the fancy new Service Workers.
It requires …
