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Many techniques for cropping image thumbnails on the front-end require explicit dimensions, which is less than ideal for responsive design. More

A project opportunity combined with my own curiosity allowed me to get a better understanding of Handlebars partials. Turns out you can do much more than I was aware of. More

Designing responsive Progressive Web Apps forces us to tackle design challenges that we’ve been been able to side-step thus far. What do users expect from these new apps?… More

I’ve been experimenting lately with a new way to apply color values in my CSS. Instead of setting explicit values for each color, I calculate the entire palette from a small set of base colors. It’s not an applicable solution… More

Confession: I don’t enjoy code. Not really. I know that sounds strange coming from someone who’s made over 2,000 code contributions this year. But it’s true: code, in and of itself, brings me little joy. If I felt I… More

Shortly after we opened up Drizzle, our pattern library framework, Luke Askew started a wonderful discussion of pattern library maintainability in that project’s repository. This inspired me to reflect on the pattern libraries we’d started or contributed to… More

Today, A List Apart published a little something I wrote entitled Adapting to Input. It is truly an honor to be an author for such an esteemed publication…… More

Technical articles about Progressive Web Apps abound, but few tackle the question of why businesses should build Progressive Web Apps and why they should do so now. More

After months of redesigning in public, we’ve finally pushed the button that unleashed the new cloudfour.com on the world. For me, this project has been a dream come true. I was a fan of Cloud Four long… More

Here are four truths about input that have changed the way I look at the web. 1. Input is exploding The last decade has seen an explosion of new types of input. The pace of input innovation is like nothing… More