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These are short-form “thoughts”, in addition to the usual longer-form articles in the blog. The goal is to publish one of these every weekday. I’d …

There’s plenty of performance optimization techniques in web development. Particularly, if you look into each portion of the web stack in detail. In the …

For the past few months I’ve been speaking at conferences about web performance. Unfortunately, none of those awesome conferences have published their talk videos

These are short-form “thoughts”, in addition to the usual longer-form articles in the blog. The goal is to publish one of these every weekday. I’d …

I’ve been toying with the idea of releasing short-form “thoughts”, in addition to the usual longer-form articles in the blog. The goal is to publish …

Peter-Paul Koch – or @ppk – has once again published a rupturing article titled “Stop pushing the web forward” that is surely going to set …

Most often, web UI libraries fall under one of two categories. They may be part of a “framework”, or a grouping of UI components that share an appearance, …

I held a survey last monday where I asked for feedback about the kinds of things you want me to write about. It was quite useful, and one of the topics that seem to …

I’ve blogged very little about Taunus since I first released it, roughly a year ago. Back then, it only powered ponyfoo.com, but now there’s a few cases in …

Peter-Paul Koch (@ppk) recently wrote an article that generated noticeable turmoil. One of the best responses was Jeremy Keith (@adactio)'s article, …

Last monday I published an open-source library to easily take control of drag & drop in the front-end, dragula, and it has amassed over 2000 stars on GitHub in under …

For the past few months I’ve developed quite the number of front-end modules. These range from UI components to utility libraries, silly games, and everything in …

Last time around, we discussed how to create an AMI for every deployment: a crucial step in enabling you to leverage deployment immutability. This time around …

A correcter title for this series would be something along the lines of “Automating autoscaled zero-downtime immutable deployments using plain old bash, Packer, …

Earlier today, Tom Dale published an article sharing his views on the whole “server-side vs client-side rendered apps” debacle. I was tempted to call this …

For quite some time I’ve been wanting some sort of input that dealt with user-submitted tags in a reasonable way. I wanted this input to still be half-decent when …

The upcoming SharedWorker API allows to transmit data across iframes and even browser tabs or windows. It landed in Chrome years ago, and not so long ago in Firefox, but …

I started this blog two years ago, at a time when nobody seemed to care about blogging anymore. It turned out to be one of the best decisions I took back then, and it …

Hey there! Today I have exciting news to share. We’ve recently started developing a prototype for a project management service called Stompflow, and it has a …

I seem to have stumbled across a bug regarding regular expressions using the g modifier, where they seem to preserve internal state across calls to RegExp.prototype.test…

We’ve already covered the different techniques you could use to vastly improve the performance of your front-end applications, their page load time, and the …

I was never really the camping kind of guy. Sounds like the perfect opportunity to collect kindling, start a bonfire, set up a tent, sleep in a bedroll, not have …

The year is 2014, a ninja rockstar band goes up against the now long-forgotten progressive enhancement technique, forsaking the origins of the web and everything they …

In this article I’ll analyze the past and present of UX in Pony Foo. In doing so, we’ll go over the features that were introduced to improve the lives of …

My first book, JavaScript Application Design is in the final stretch and due to come out very soon! The code samples are finalized and publicly available on GitHub. …

This article aims to cover the performance gains I’ve attained in the redesign of Pony Foo, deployed last week to production. I’ll be covering a few …

Conventions are a great thing. Frameworks such as Ruby on Rails and ASP.NET MVC are good examples of conventional MVC implementations. Conventions are essentially …

Building modules for the front-end has become an increasingly easy problem to solve. Back in the nineties we had our Java applets, our <MARQUEE> and <BLINK> …

I’ve recently created a JavaScript Quality Guide, and I wanted to share it on Pony Foo as well. The latest version can be found on GitHub. As …

BrowserSync is a browser testing tool, similar to LiveReload. It also synchronizes across browsers and is going to provide HTML injection in the very near future, …

Lately I’ve been developing front-end modules solely based on Browserify, the latest being rome. Rome is a calendar component that has an extensive feature-set. …

Deciding on a technology is always hard. You don’t want to make commitments you won’t be able to back out of, but eventually you’ll have to make a …

Some times you just need to extend Array objects. Think of the possibilities. Dream of how much more awesome jQuery would’ve been if it provided all of the Array …

I’ve mentioned Taunus in one of my latest articles. I believe Taunus is interesting, not because it introduces innovative paradigm shifts or the like, but rather, …

I’ve decided to pour my thoughts of how the CSS of an application should be modelled into a formal style guide. I’ve been using this approach for over a …

In the past I’ve wrote about a small alternative to async, named contra, which is barely over 2kb, and has the browser at its heart. It comes with the usual …

Rendr boosts the perceived performance of Backbone applications by rendering them in the server-side. This allows us to display the rendered page before JavaScript code …

I’m thrilled to announce that next month I’ll make my public speaking debut, at JSConf US no less! I have also been invited to QCon NY, which is happening …

I believe that the event emitter implementation in Node could be made way better by providing a way to access the functionality directly without using prototypes. This …

In the previous part of this article, I discussed scope events and the behavior of the digest cycle. This time around, I’ll talk about directives. Just as …