Recently the W3C announced MiniApps: MiniApp as a new form of mobile application, leveraging both Web technologies (especially CSS and JavaScript) as well as capabilities of native application. I was a bit confused about them at first, and thought they were directly competing with PWAs. Thankfully Thomas Steiner chimed in, referring to a whole presentation …
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A Five-Minute Guide to Better Typography
A talk by Pierrick Calvez. I especially like the part on the hyphen vs. en dash vs. em dash — the latter being a symbol which I use quite a lot — and the mentioning of keming 🙂 A Five-Minute Guide to Better Typography →
When in doubt, trust the browser
Presentation by Pieter Beulque, as given at the most recent FronteersBE meetup, in which he builds a Tweet Embed using Web Components’ Custom Elements. As a front-end developer, you’re always confronted with making choices. In this talk I cover the benefits you get for free when considering W3C standards or standard browser API’s instead of …
Demystifying the future of CSS with sparkles of JS
At the recent JSConf.be conference here in Belgium, Ibe Vanmeenen gave a very nice talk introducing Houdini. CSS as a language is at the brink of a great revolution. Once such a closed and magical language, it will open up to you and your creativity in all it's glory. CSS will become an easy to …
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Variable Fonts, an interactive presentation
Interactive slidedeck of a talk on Variable Fonts by Scott Kellum: Advance with the arrow keys. Watch it fullscreen here.
V8 internals for JavaScript developers: Arrays
This presentation demonstrates how learning just a little bit about JavaScript engine internals can help you improve the run-time performance of your JavaScript code — not just in V8 specifically, but across all JavaScript engines! A written version is also available.
Tame your Service Worker before your Progressive Web App go into the wild
Slidedeck by Maxim Salnikov: With great power comes great responsibility – trivially, but true: I’ll show the examples of how easy the “Progressive” part of the PWA term could become “Regressive”, how to fix this, and how to test our Service Worker before deploying your app. First, we’ll go through the well-known PWA functionality (App …
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Start Using ES6 ES2015 Today
Great set of slides by Wes Bos to getting started with ES02015 (ES6). Highly recommended. Start Using ES6 Today →
Refactoring CSS Without Losing Your Mind
Great slidedeck by Harry Roberts: Must say I wasn’t aware of the all: initial; CSS for Software Engineers for CSS Developers →
Introduction to Webpack
There’s a presentation embedded in this post: Introduction to Webpack – Ordina JWorks – CC JS & Web Slides by Jan De Wilde: This presentation will guide you step by step so you can start using Webpack in your own projects.