Articles by

Robin Rendle

Writer, designer, type nerd.

More code review tools (on GitHub)

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GitHub has improved their code reviewing tools:

Effective code review catches bugs before they’re deployed, improves code consistency, and helps educate new developers. We’re adding new features to make code review on GitHub faster and more flexible.

A few include …

A Year Without jQuery

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Patrick Kunka writes about his experiments in making a large-scale web app without jQuery:

In my mind, ES6 is for the most part a much-needed syntactical progression of the JavaScript language and jQuery is for the most part, a DOM

Sketch 3.6

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There’s some great improvements in the latest release of Sketch which you might not have noticed: baseline fixes, better control over character spacing, masking improvements and more compact SVG exports are just some of the features here.

It’s nice to …

Introducing Vector Networks

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The team working on the upcoming design tool Figma demonstrate how vector path making will work. Think of the Pen Tool in Adobe software, rethought. This new approach certainly looks more intuitive, especially with how easily curves can be manipulated.…

Critical Web Fonts

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Zach Leatherman outlines a new method for loading webfonts whereby the process can be broken up into two stages:

…instead of a full Roman webfont in the first stage, it loads a small subset of the Roman webfont, in this