Continuous Improvement as seen through the lens of Systems Thinking

Recording of a 1994 talk by Dr. Russel Ackoff on Continuous Improvement as seen through the lens of Systems Thinking. This talk really was way ahead of its time. It’s talking about Continuous Improvement long before I even heard this term in the business of web development; it’s expressed in a very clear and calm …

Fontastic Web Performance

Emojineer Monica Dinculescu: Web fonts are awesome. They make your sans-serifs slabby, your headers special and your website look gorgeous. But fonts are a resource, and downloading resources always comes as a cost — if you don’t load web fonts efficiently, what you get instead are phantom underlines, blank pages, and user rage. Let’s talk …

Experimental (and exciting) React Feature: Call Return 

Ryan Florence – co-author of React Router – on an experimental React feature: React has a new feature coming that I think is pretty cool. It allows us to compose with React in places we couldn’t compose before. I can immediately see how it’ll affect some of our components and some of our exercises in …

Evolution of <img>: Gif without the GIF

In the latest Safari Tech Preview it’s now possible to use MP4 files in <img> tags. Intended use case is short, muted, looping video. Colin Bendell digs deeper into this. By enabling true video formats (like MP4) to be included in <img> tags, Safari Technology Preview has fixed performance and UX problems. With it, our …