Web Development 15 posts

"I know there's no spec yet, but can you just give me a rough number?"

There's a genre of LinkedIn post that always does well: things PMs say versus what they actually mean.

Google Fonts is a library of over 1,500 typefaces, of which roughly 40 are worth your time

A web development book earns its place only if it survives contact with the current platform and changes what you actually write on Monday.

So you've been living in Zed for a few weeks, the honeymoon speed rush has settled, and you're ready for the features that don't announce themselves.

Zed is what happens when the same people who made Atom, rebuild the idea in Rust, rendering on the GPU, with performance as the founding principle.

Sublime Text should, by all the usual logic, be dead. It costs money in a market where the dominant player is free.

VS Code has absorbed so many former must-have extensions into the core product that most setup guides are recommending you install things it already does. The ultimate VS Code setup is a fast one, and fast means minimal.

Pinpointing speed bottlenecks is the first step you should be taking when trying to improve the performance of your website.

I’ve pulled together this list of extensions specifically to help you become a faster and more efficient web developer.

Snow effects get a bit of a bad rep on the Internet. Whilst some may think they’re a bit, well, tacky, there’s nothing that quite says Christmas like a few snowflakes drifting gently down the screen…

Everyone knows that GIFs are great, but they can have very large file sizes meaning longer loads times and a poorer user experience. So, how do you create animations that are both complex and efficient?

As with everything, with this new found typographic freedom, there comes a new responsibility not to abuse these new powers.