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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.

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…

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…

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…

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:…

(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…

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.

In July we released SimpleSlideView, a jQuery and Zepto plugin for simple, responsive sliding views (here’s a demo). In the last few months, I’ve noticed an uptick in developers emailing to ask a…

Sliding views (incoming views that “push” old ones off-screen) have become so commonplace in mobile design we tend to take them for granted. They’re useful because they allow content to be broken into bite-sized chunks…