A closer look: "A family evacuated from Afghanistan arrives at Dulles"
Erik Kroes - Accessibility Consultantby Erik Kroes·29 Aug 2021
A closer look: "A family evacuated from Afghanistan arrives at Dulles" Posted on I shared an image of Afghan refugees too haphazardly. Let's have a second look.
When you should and shouldn't use React
ByteofDevby Jacob Jackson·27 Aug 2021
When you should and shouldn't use React If you do web development, chances are, you know what React is.
Measurement, benchmarking, and data analysis are underrated
Dan Luu·27 Aug 2021
A question I get asked with some frequency is: why bother measuring X, why not build something instead?
Design for Safety, An Excerpt
A List Apartby by Eva PenzeyMoog·26 Aug 2021
Antiracist economist Kim Crayton says that “intention without strategy is chaos.” We’ve discussed how our biases, assumptions, and inattention toward marginalized and vulnerable groups lead to...
Unit testing UIView action and gesture in Swift
Benoit Pasquierby Benoit Pasquier·20 Aug 2021
Unit testing UIView action and gesture in Swift A big part of the developer journey is make sure our code behaves as expected.
Service Architecture at SoundCloud — Part 2: Value-Added Services
SoundCloud Backstage Blog·20 Aug 2021
This article is part of a series of posts aiming to cast some light onto how service architecture has evolved at SoundCloud over the past few years, and how we’re attempting to solve some of the...
Dependency injection and Generics to create a modular app in Swift
Benoit Pasquierby Benoit Pasquier·10 Aug 2021
Dependency injection and Generics to create a modular app in Swift When we talk about modular app, we rarely mention how complex it can be over time and get out of hand.
Embrace ephemerality with default disappearing messages
Signal Blog·10 Aug 2021
As the norms for how people connect have changed, much of the communication that once took place through the medium of coffee shops, bars, and parks now takes place through the medium of digital...
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Oh Happy Day!by Jordan·6 Aug 2021
I recently planned a girls trip to Iceland. We technically called it a “Divorce Trip” because a couple of my friends were getting divorced and we wanted to plan something fun they could look...
Sustainable Web Design, An Excerpt
A List Apartby by Tom Greenwood·5 Aug 2021
In the 1950s, many in the elite running community had begun to believe it wasn’t possible to run a mile in less than four minutes.
A photographer’s view on alt text
Erik Kroes - Accessibility Consultantby Erik Kroes·4 Aug 2021
A photographer’s view on alt text Posted on Images are visual communication. Consider what you’re trying to communicate before you do. Contents What is alt text?
iOS Custom Accessibility Actions
Mobile A11yby a11y@mobilea11y.com (Mobile A11y)·1 Aug 2021
When testing your app with an assistive technology such as VoiceOver or Switch Control, it is essential to check that you can focus on every interactive element on screen.
Service Architecture at SoundCloud — Part 1: Backends for Frontends
SoundCloud Backstage Blog·29 Jul 2021
This article is part of a series of posts aiming to cast some light onto how service architecture has evolved at SoundCloud over the past few years, and how we’re attempting to solve some of the...
Things I wish I knew in my early coding career
Benoit Pasquierby Benoit Pasquier·25 Jul 2021
For the past few years, I had the opportunity to mentor new joiners through different roles. In some aspects, I could see myself in them the same way I started years back: eager to prove...
The Continuous Integration system used by the mobile teams
Alberto De Bortoliby Alberto De Bortoli·23 Jul 2021
Originally published on the Just Eat Takeaway Engineering Blog. Overview In this article, we’ll discuss the way our mobile teams have evolved the Continuous Integration (CI) stack over the recent...
Keeping public API in check with the Kotlin binary validator plugin
zsmb.coby Márton Braun·14 Jul 2021
Within the Stream Chat Android SDK project, we use the Kotlin binary compatibility validator plugin to keep track of all the changes we make to our public API.
How We Share Knowledge as a Web Collective
SoundCloud Backstage Blog·14 Jul 2021
There’s no single platform team that consists of only web engineers at SoundCloud, even though we consider ourselves to be part of the “Web Collective.” Instead, all web engineers are split into...
ON THE FIRST NIGHT OF ADVENT | Kirkus Reviews
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors·13 Jul 2021
by Tish Rabe ; illustrated by Summer Macon ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A merry stocking stuffer. What will we find each night? An advent calendar hangs on the wall: “The doors are fun to open.
The value of less
Erik Kroes - Accessibility Consultantby Erik Kroes·8 Jul 2021
The value of less Posted on In 2019 we started planning for a new house. I started sketching layouts because I didn't know what our needs were.
npm audit: Broken by Design — overreacted
overreacted·7 Jul 2021
npm audit: Broken by Design July 7, 2021 Security is important. Nobody wants to be the person advocating for less security. So nobody wants to say it. But somebody has to say it.
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