Deployment at Github

All deployments happen in chat via Hubot commands, which ensures that everyone in the company (from development to operations to support) has visibility into changes that are being pushed into production. Deploying branches to GitHub.com → Reminds me of how deployments at Etsy happen. They’ve got Deployinator integrated into IRC and deploy using deployment trains. …

Supercharging page load

Jake Archibald introduces how making simple changes to Service Worker can vastly improve the startup and load performance of your web site. In this video Jake shows how he has made his Wikipedia application not only work offline but amazingly performant too. Jake, in his typical Jake style. Love that guy! One might argue that …

Responsive Principles

Responsive web design has engendered a wider conversation about how we build products that accommodate an increasing breadth of connected devices. This talk will suggest a framework within which we can model this continuing discussion, and outline the principles needed for our work to better respond to a rapidly changing world. A PDF with presenter …

On being overwhelmed with our fast paced industry

JavaScript var is dead? We should use ES2015 let and const now? CSS is getting variables, nesting, scoping and custom selectors. Preprocessors like Sass and Stylus are dead, long live PostCSS. Just learned Grunt? Oh you should use Gulp – wait no, Webpack. Still laying out your sites using floats like a sucker? Flexbox is …