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Apple has started development of service workers—the key technology powering Progressive Web Apps. More

Here’s a neat little solution to a problem I encountered in my quest to use more animation in my interface design work. I was prototyping a sliding view transition between nested levels of navigation: All menu items animating… 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

We recently got the opportunity to develop a service worker for use on Smashing Magazine, which we’ll write about in more detail soon. This is the first of a multi-part article that will examine some of the solutions we… More

Update (July 2019): Our process has changed quite a bit since this article was written. Check out our latest update! When I wrote about why you shouldn’t use icon fonts in your next web project, I had no… More

This is the first of three posts in a series about JavaScript client-side modules and code packaging. The JavaScript community has this incredible superpower where standards of practice will emerge not from any formal process, but just from use, and… More

Although my favorite projects will always be those that allow us to re-evaluate a user experience from the ground up, sometimes that isn’t realistic. That’s where Responsive Retrofitting comes in: The process of making small, surgical changes to existing… More

This happens to me over and over: I have a multi-column grid of tiles, each with varying heights. This means the bottom of certain rows can appear jagged and difficult to scan visually: See… More

(This post is for: web developers who have used, or thought about using, a build tool before, are JS-comfy and maybe have noodled around in node.js but wouldn’t, say, feel up to submitting a talk to a node conference.) It… More

Last June, we released our hideShowPassword plugin for improving the experience of password-entry (particularly on mobile devices). As of this writing, it’s our most-starred and most-forked project on GitHub. We’ve released a handful of… More