Generating SVG Solar Systems, Part 1: Setting the Scene
Using JavaScript, SVGs, and CSS to procedurally generate unique solar systems.
Process, Page 2
What’s the Point of Standup Meetings?
It’s no secret around the office that I’m a bit of a process wonk. In the past, I’ve been certified as a scrum master, and I have opinions about agile workflows. So it may surprise…
How to Keep Your Project Manager Happy
It’s not just the “what” but it’s also the “who” that makes a PM successful and happy! Here are some of the qualities we exhibit to help our PMs – and keep them smiling. 😁
Big picture performance analysis using Lighthouse Parade
Lighthouse Parade is a Node.js command line tool that crawls a domain and gathers lighthouse performance data for every page. With a single command, the tool will crawl an entire site, run a Lighthouse report for each page, and then output a spreadsheet with the aggregated data. Each row in the generated spreadsheet is a page on the site, and each individual performance metric is a column. This is convenient for high-level analysis because you can sort the rows by whichever metric you are analyzing.
A GitHub Action for automated deployment to WP Engine
We recently set up a GitHub Action to automatically upload our site updates to WP Engine whenever we push to a specific branch. we suspect other teams might find it useful, too.
Perfectly Broken Code
Join me in exploring a recent experience where I started with flawed logic (without realizing it) and the steps I took to fix my bug. Let’s experience some broken code together. 🎉
Designers, Design Systems and Finding Our Focus
For many designers, the process of finding one's place within a design system can be surprisingly tough.
Making Our Patterns More Accessible
Our accessibility best practices have changed a lot in recent years, which we're reflecting in the next version of our design system.
From Drizzle to Storybook
Why we're changing up our pattern library UI after four years of rolling our own bespoke solution.
Getting Unstuck
Problem-solving is an essential part of software development. Sometimes we get stuck on a particularly baffling problem, and this can feel frustrating and discouraging. The following are some strategies for getting yourself "unstuck."