I’ve been developing sites for the past 7 or 8 years now, and I’ve finally landed on one of the best frontend development toolchains. Read more
After begrudgingly installing Facebook’s Messenger app on my Nexus 5, I was thoroughly entranced by the realistically springy animations used by the app’s “chat heads” feature. Read more
You should be using a preprocessor. But I won’t argue with you about it if you aren’t using one. These are some thoughts on why I love using a CSS preprocessor, and my flavor of choice is Sass. Read more
REST is a beautiful thing. REST is an architectural style. Many public APIs are designed with a REST-style, as opposed to patterns like SOAP, WSDL, etc. Let’s see how simple it is. Read more
I’ve been seeing this behavior across various native apps & web sites: navigation goes away as you scroll the site/app, and upon scrolling up it reappears. I’m calling it “shy nav” simply because in most implementations the nav hides after a couple seconds of being shown on scroll up. Read more
Static sites are awesome. They’re super fast, fully cacheable, database-free, and no-frills-easy to make. If you don’t require database-driven content you can achieve plenty with a static site. Read more
One of my favorite events of the year, BarcampNola – the two-day, tech-oriented New Orleans “unconference” – is coming up July 13 & 14. It’s weirdly inspirational. Read more
At work I was tasked with creating an internal tool to track and display vital company stats. I knew that meant I would likely be displaying some data in charts and graphs. Thus began my search for an easily customizable data visualization library. Read more
There’s been some recent discussion on Branch about redesigning the save icon. This conversation crops up from time to time, but no lasting fruit has come from it… yet. Read more
The world of screens is multiplying, and with it the use of Responsive Design. But we’re still figuring it out. Read more