Offline Storage: When 7 KB Equals 7 MB

Gerardo Rodriguez from Cloudfour: While testing a progressive web app for one of our clients, I bumped into a suspicious error in the browser console: DOMException: Quota exceeded. After browsing the app a few more times, it became clear the error would occur after a small number of images were added to the cache storage …

BIO: Combining the powers of BEM, OOCSS and ITCSS for Improving CSS

Ryan Yu: There are many great techniques out there to improve the way we write CSS, and from my experience, I found the following three techniques that make up the BIO acronym work very well together BEM ITCSS OOCSS A lot of developers/engineers already know those famous techniques but I would like to go through …

Why incompetent people think they’re amazing – The Dunning-Kruger effect

I first heard of the Dunning-Kruger effect at last year’s Fronteers Conference in a talk by Jessica Rose. In that talk she said that “the unskilled aren’t aware of their lack of own skill, and are unable to assess and value others’ skills”. This is known as the Dunning-Kruger effect. This nice video goes into …

Would Airbnb Have Fared Better With NativeScript Instead of React Native?

Interesting blog post by TJ Vantoll, who works on NativeScript: In this article we’ll walk through Airbnb’s complaints in detail, and talk about how some of those same problems could’ve been handled in NativeScript. We’ll start with things that NativeScript does well (this is the NativeScript blog after all), and then move on to things …

JSUI – A tool for visually organizing, creating and managing JavaScript projects.

Highly interesting tool by Kitze: 🗂 Organize & group apps 🤖 Generate new apps 🔍 Search apps & preview files 🏃‍♂️ Quick actions ✅ Run scripts 🗄 Manage dependencies 🔌 Apply plugins 📄 Generate files This will surely help out developer starting with JavaScript based projects. More features are tweeted out regularly on JSUI’s Twitter …

Bringing newspapers to life with augmented reality

In true Harry Potter-style, Nathan Gitter has used ARKit to bring newspapers to life: Bringing newspapers to life with #ARKit. 📰📱 Animated weather maps and sports highlights are just the beginning! Built with #ARKit2 on #iOS12. — Nathan Gitter (@nathangitter) June 23, 2018 Neat!

Wavethrough – Stealing data from remote sites through (fake) wav files

Jake Archibald discovered a really nice browser bug (which is fixed by now) by which he was able to steal data from remote sites by loading it in as a (fake) wav file. The exploit works as follows: Make a request to evil-script, using a Content-Range header to suggest there’s more data to be loaded …

The Layouts of Tomorrow

With CSS Grid being available, Max Böck set out to find himself a layout challenge: I went over to dribbble in search of layout ideas that are pushing the envelope a bit. The kind of design that would make frontend developers like me frown at first sight. He settled on the “Digital Walls” shot (pictured …