A couple of weeks ago I had some time in my hands and decided to fix cross-browser rendering issues for Pony Foo. The ensuing bug hunt was a good reminder of just how obnoxious web development can get. |
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Wallaby.js provides instant feedback from your tests and realtime code coverage right in your editor, no more context switching. Supports JetBrains IDEs, VS Code, Atom, Sublime and Visual Studio.  |  |
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Paul Irish gave a talk in Münich about the kinds of metrics which are important to Progressive Web Applications. Some of it is generic web performance advice, but the rest is specific to making Progressive Web Apps more awesome.  |
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The :target pseudo-class refers to an element within the document that the URL’s fragment points to. For example, this piece of text is wrapped in a element which has an ID of #target-test. If you went to the url bitsofco.de/the-target-trick#target-test, then that element will be the target and and styles applied to the :target pseudo-class for that element will take effect. |
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A deep dive into CSS display property values and their effect on layout. |
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Baljeet Rathi explains the various CSS image replacement techniques available to web developers today and looks at their pros and cons. |
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Dean helps us thorugh throttling our CPU in Chrome Dev Tools. I didn’t even know we had this power. |
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Node bindings for libui. libui is a simple and portable (but not inflexible) GUI library in C that uses the native GUI technologies of each platform it supports (macOS, Linux, Windows). It is in early stage of development, but is evolving at great pace and is really awesome.
It could become an awesome, lightweight alternative to Electron to develop multi-platform GUI. |
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A fun read on what works and what doesn’t when it comes to marketing, driven by data. While tangentially related to most of our day-to-day jobs, this article puts data-driven user experiences in an interesting light. |  |
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A great case study. Felony is an open-source pgp keychain built on the modern web with Electron, React, and Redux. Felony is the first PGP app that’s easy for anyone to use, without a tutorial. |  |
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Kerry shared a list of learnings he came across when studying startups. While I typically shy away from these types of link aggregations, this list is too good to pass up! |
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