Zach gives a thorough – no-frills – deep dive into the world of deploying software. Block off a couple hours in your calendar and give this a read! |
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A Facebook engineer goes deep into what matters in moving forward in your career as a Software Engineer. |
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Lately, Sam has analyzed the performance for half a dozen sites and providing detailed – actionable – feedback on how the situation could be improved. Keep an eye out for his case studies. Here’s his more recent one – for m.imgur.com . | |
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Playing catch up with the latest and greatest in JavaScript? Read through this article where you can quickly learn about every feature in ES6. Note that there’s also a series of articles on ES6 that go more in depth if that’s your cup of tea. When you’re done, maybe also learn about ES2016. |
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Amy wrote a brilliant piece on Medium about her passions: art and science. It’s a very inspirational piece and I don’t want to spoil it for you – go read it! |
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It doesn’t get much more inspirational than this polygon tree generator. Karim is always sharing this kind of stuff on CodePen, so you might want to visit his profile once in a while for a dose of web-based inspiration. | |
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Mozilla just released A-Frame , which allows you to create 3D and VR experiences on the Web. It looks pretty A-Mazing. | |
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Mozilla again, this time with a talk about Servo – their next-generation browser engine in the works. This highly technical talk describes how WebRender can deliver high performance graphics even in the most bloated animation scenarios. We’ve essentially removed painting as a bottleneck in Servo. The talk starts at 1:50. |
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I’ve been meaning to learn more about web animations. Particularly, I was interested in learning the fundamentals of what makes a good animation . I asked on Twitter and I got several links to great articles on animating content for the web.
Disney’s 12 basic principles of animation applied to CSS with beautiful examples and transition animations. If you only have to pick one article about CSS animation – make it this one! |
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Sarah underpins the importance of making context changes more clear through the use of transition animations. You may also want to read About Face (book), if you’re interested in learning more about UX and generally treating “users” as if they were humans. |
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A tutorial about a powerful animations library. While I wouldn’t be particularly fond of using a library for this type of feature, the article positively brims with ideas. Check out the demos. |
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jQuery 3 is here and – although it didn’t change a whole lot – there’s enough changes to the API that you might want to take a glance at this article, to cover your ground. |
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Amjad sheds some light into what Babel core team members are thinking in terms of the future of Babel’s internal architecture. |
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Abstract operations and other functions drawn from the ECMAScript specification. |
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It’s no secret I’m a big proponent of server-side rendering. Here’s an excellent guide to server-side rendering when it comes to Node.js and React. |
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