Codrops CSS Reference

An extensive CSS reference with all the important properties and info to learn CSS from the basics Extensive reference sporting clear explanations, examples, live demos (using Codrops’ Playground), CSS compatibility tables (provided by Can I use…), etc.. The fact that Sara Soueidan wrote a lot of these articles gives away that they’re very – very! …

Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones

Every day has 24 hours Every day without DST changes is 86400 (60 * 60 * 24) seconds long Every day in UTC is 86400 (60 * 60 * 24) seconds long Week one of a year starts in January every year If I know what time zone someone is in and they just tell …

The ServiceWorker is coming, look busy!

Look at the apps on your homescreen. Why are they native? Why aren’t they just on the web? Its usually some combination of push messaging, background sync, offline & performance. When native has something the web doesn’t, we should consider it a bug. Let’s have a look at the fixes, focusing on the ServiceWorker. By …

Why Game Developers Should Care about HTML5

I’m at Lahti University of Applied Sciences (Finland) right now for the “International iWeek”, organized by the Faculty of Technology. Today I gave two sessions entitled “Why Game Developers Should Care about HTML5”, a reprise of a talk I first did back in 2013. You can check out the slides embedded below. Slides with presenter …