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The book I spent the last year of my life working on is finally out. It’s called Progressive Web Apps and it is available in paperback and ebook formats. I wrote the book for teams grappling with what progressive… More

Exciting news: We’re looking for more Front-End Designers to join Cloud Four! As a Front-End Designer, you’ll collaborate with your fellow Cloud Four craftspeople and our wonderful clients to understand project objectives and user needs, sketch and prototype possible solutions,… More

We’re searching for a versatile and enthusiastic Front-End Developer to join our small team of multi-disciplinary web experts in lovely downtown Portland! If you love the web, solving complex problems, assessing new technologies and teaching what you learn in writing… More

I set out to write a book that answered the questions of why you should build a progressive web app, what your progressive web app should do, and how to put together a roadmap for building it. You can… More

Incorporating contrast checks into our process has fundamentally changed the way we approach color in our design systems. More

If you’ve ever had to edit a project before (yours or someone else’s), you’ve definitely thought at some point: “What am I even looking at?” Enter Prettier, the new tool to transform the way we code. Once I… More

A documentation of my journey in understanding why the cache storage was bloating when caching CDN-hosted static assets with a service worker. More

If tomorrow someone wanted to try out a radical new idea within your design system, where would that happen?… More

Rethinking the way we prioritize interaction states to design more useful, versatile and delightful button patterns. More

Google launched a big change to its permissions modal design with Chrome 63 in early December. I don’t think these changes have garnered enough attention in the web community. You may want to make some changes to your website quickly. More