EAS: Expo Application Services

The folks at Expo have made it really easy to build (and publish!) your React Native applications on their infrastructure, with their Expo Application Services (EAS) offering: You can build your app with EAS Build and automatically submit to app stores with EAS Submit in minutes or less, thanks to automatically managed app signing credentials, …

The Gap between UX/Design and Development: The Design Engineer

Egor Kloos on closing the gap between design and development: I have never worked anywhere where there wasn’t someone trying to close the gap. This role is often filled in accidentally, and companies are totally unaware of the need. Recruiters have never heard of it, and IT consultancies don’t have the capability in their roster. …

RenderingNG: The next-generation rendering architecture for Chrome

RenderingNG is a re-architecture of the entire rendering pipeline of Chrome, for greatly improved reliability, scalability and extensibility. Listen in to find out how it works and why it makes the web better. Thanks to these advancements we get better rendering of tables, container queries support, features like Scroll-Linked Animations, etc. Related: RenderingNG — Ready …

Curves and Surfaces

From fonts to animated movies, curves and surfaces constitute fundamental building blocks of many geometrical designs. We’ll see how complex surfaces are a natural extension of plain two dimensional curves. Throughout this article I’ll keep jumping back and forth between curves and surfaces to highlight how the ideas we develop for wiggly lines can be …

Practical CSS Subgrid Video Tutorials

With CSS Subgrid already being supported in Firefox (ever since version 71), and Chromium recently having started work on it, it might be the perfect time to start learning about CSS Subgrid. That’s exactly what Kevin J Powell thought too, with his “October Subgrid Awareness Month”, so he created a bunch of videos on the …

No-JS Fingerprinting

No-JS Fingerprinting is a POC that you can do fingerprinting — a way of uniquely identifying browsers — without the need for JavaScript. Fingerprinting is a way of identifying browsers without the use of cookies or data storage. Created using properties like language and installed fonts, your fingerprint stays the same even if your browser …

Divtober Speedrun

October is the month of “Divtober”, where artists are challenged to draw different things using CSS and a single HTML element. Each day they get a theme to work with. You can find some nice works on CodePen, all tagged #divtober. Here’s a small selection: See the Pen Single div CSS chili garlic sauce by …

New WebKit Features in Safari 15

If you’re looking for a technical roundup of what’s new in Safari 15, head over to the WebKit blog With the release of Safari 15 for macOS Monterey, iPadOS 15, iOS 15, and watchOS, as well as macOS Big Sur and macOS Catalina, WebKit brings significant advancements in privacy and security, improved interoperability, and a …