Planning Your Project Is Your MVP Minimal Enough? "If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.” – Reid Hoffman, Co-Founder of LinkedIn
Personal Optimization Read the Frickin’ Manual Most of areas where I’m viewed as most knowledgable are disciplines that I learned via the simple act of slogging through documentation.
UX/Design Tools SVGO – A Handy Command-Line Tool for Compressing SVG Images SVGO is a quick command-line tool that enables you to compress your SVGs with just a single command and performs many optimizations out of the box.
UX/Design Practices Tips for Improving Web Typography Typography is one of the most important aspects of website design. By following just a few rules, you can make great headway in improving web typography.
UX/Design Techniques An Introduction to Website Image Optimization – Part 2 How to optimize images for the web for fast webpages. Covers scaling images to the correct dimensions and applying image compression.
UX/Design Techniques An Introduction to Website Image Optimization – Part 1 How to optimize images for the web for fast webpages. Covers eliminating unnecessary images and choosing the appropriate image format.
UX/Design Techniques How to Vertically Middle-Align Floated Elements with Flexbox A simple Flexbox solution for the problem of vertically middle-aligning floated elements with dynamic content.
UX/Design Tools Create a Local Copy of a Website with HTTrack How to use HTTrack, an open-source utility that lets you copy any website locally.
Growing as Makers Sweat the Details, Land the Job Clearly, we can’t hire everyone who applies—so what makes the great candidates stand out from the good?
Web Apps Creating Scroll Animations with Waypoints and Animate.css, Part 2 How to reverse your animations and hide content as the user scrolls back up the page, using Waypoints and Animate.css.
UX/Design Tools How to Identify Embedded Fonts in a PDF When I find a great design that uses an unfamiliar font, I like to do a bit of investigating to figure out what it is.
Web Apps How to Create a Responsive Square with CSS I needed to create a square element that would maintain its square shape as it responsively resized to a changing window size.
