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Hey gang, time for another broad update about various goings on as we tend to do occasionally. Some various happenings around here, appearances on other sites, upcoming conferences, and the like.… Read article

Not long ago, I had a novice understanding of Continuous Integration (CI) and thought it seemed like an extra process that forces engineers to do extra work on already large projects. My team began to implement CI into projects and, after some hands-on experience, I realized its great benefits, not only to the company, but to me, an engineer! In this post, I will describe CI, the benefits I’ve discovered, and how to implement it for free, and fast. … Read article

Many people have messaged me, confused about where to get started with testing. Just like everything else in software, we work hard to build abstractions to make our jobs easier. But that amount of abstraction evolves over time, until the only ones who really understand it are the ones who built the abstraction in the first place. Everyone else is left with taking the terms, APIs, and tools at face value and struggling to make things work.

One thing I … Read article

Charts! My least favorite subject besides Social Studies. But you just won't get very far in this industry before someone wants you to make a chart. I don't know what it is with people and charts, but apparently we can't have a civilization without a bar chart showing Maggie's sales for last month so by ALL MEANS — let's make a chart.… Read article

This post is a collaboration between myself and my awesome coworker, Maxime Rouiller.

Durable Functions? Wat. If you’re new to Durable, I suggest you start here with this post that covers all the essentials so that you can properly dive in. In this post, we’re going to dive into one particular use case so that you can see a Durable Function pattern at work!

Today, let’s talk about the Fan Out, Fan In pattern. We’ll do so by retrieving … Read article

One of the advantages of building a Single Page Application (SPA) is the way navigating between pages is extremely fast. Unfortunately, the data of our components is sometimes only available after we have navigated to a specific part of our application. We can level up the user’s perceived performance by breaking the component into two pieces: the container (which displays a skeleton view when it’s empty) and the content. If we delay the rendering of the content component until we … Read article

Nicole Sullivan asked. People said:

• 🐦... for the same reason that I buy ingredients rather than growing/raising all of my own food.
• 🐦 I write too many bugs without them.
• 🐦 Avoiding bikeshedding.
• 🐦 ... to solve problems that are adjacent to, but distinct from, the problem I'm trying to solve at hand.
• 🐦 Because to create the same functionality would require a much larger team
• 🐦 I want to be able to focus on building the product

CSS is designed in a way that allows for relatively seamless addition of new features. Since the dawn of the language, specifications have required browsers to gracefully ignore any properties, values, selectors, or at-rules they do not support. Consequently, in most cases, it is possible to successfully use a newer technology without causing any issues in older browsers.

Consider the relatively new caret-color property (it changes the color of the cursor in inputs). Its support is still low but that … Read article

Maxim Leyzerovich created the marching ants effect with some delectably simple SVG.… Read article

It’s a common situation: you create a site and it’s ready to go. It’s all on GitHub. But you’re not really done. You need to set up deployment. You need to set up a process that runs your tests for you and you're not manually running commands all the time. Ideally, every time you push to master, everything runs for you: the tests, the deployment... all in one place.

Previously, there were only few options here that could help … Read article