I’ve always worked hard to optimize all my web apps (client caching, gzip compression, image compression, domain shading, css sprites, etc…). It’s great to see that it really does make a difference. wpostats.com shows the real stats and puts into hard numbers that perfomance does matter.
This articles talks about how web apps can get the same trust and experience as native apps. Lots of great points:
https://remysharp.com/2016/03/18/progressive-web-apps-the-long-game
Being able to POST data is a core piece of web development. Sometimes testing and logging the POST data though is not easy. David Walsh just posted about how easy it is to use CURL right from the terminal:
https://davidwalsh.name/curl-post-file
And if you haven’t used POSTMAN, it’s an awesome tool for testing POST. Even gives you the option to share and save your queries.
Sometimes as a programmer, you just want to work on the code you want to do that day. You don’t want to code up another form, and fix some old code. Sometimes you want to move your entire website to HTTPS, or start using service workers.
Thanks for Chris Coyier for posting this article, made me feel good:
The use of passphrases instead passwords is more intuitive and practical:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/12/passphrases-more-user-friendly-passwords/
Fantastic article that makes it apparent how to design your UI when creating web apps:
http://scotthurff.com/posts/why-your-user-interface-is-awkward-youre-ignoring-the-ui-stack
Check out this article by David Walsh:
http://davidwalsh.name/impostor-syndrome
It’s totally a thing in the web development world.
StackOverflow is out with their 2015 Developer Survey. Great data in there, great to see the growth and trends around the world for web developers and developers of all kinds.
It seems like the amount of code you can add to a simple HTML page just keeps growing. But the benefits are great, especially in this age of social sharing being the main way users find and share content. Using the markup listed in this article can help you make your page more visible.
We’re thinking about implementing Development Core Hours. This article outlines how another company does it:
https://medium.com/@nannerb/development-core-hours-cd60328a4584
The concept is awesome since I know I have a ton of little distractions that can happen throughout the day. And when a developer gets out of his train of thought, it can take a good chunk of time to get back into it.