A bunch of new developer tools have landed in the past year and they are biting at the heels of the tools that have dominated front-end development over the last few years, including webpack, Babel, Rollup, Parcel, create-react-app. These new …
Butter is building an ‘all-in-one’ platform to run virtual workshops
Butter, a startup registered in Denmark but operating fully remote, is building an “all-in-one” platform for planning and running virtual workshops. Offering video software and other features dedicated to workshopping, the idea is to pull people away from using more …
How Photographers Can Monetize Their Unique Skills Through Social Media
Social media has created a whole new economy and opportunity to build a business. Whether you’re using social media as a marketing tool to promote an offline business or using it as the portal to your services, you cannot understate …
CSS Is, In Fact, Awesome
I recently listened to a talk by Hidde de Vries titled “On the origin of cascades”. It was an intriguing talk full of interesting historical tidbits about the origins and evolution of doing styles in the browser. Hidde points out …
Quick Tip: How to Loop Through a JSON Response in JavaScript
When fetching data from a remote server, the server’s response will often be in JSON format. In this quick tip, I’ll demonstrate how you can use JavaScript to parse the server’s response, so as to access the data you require. …
Former Amazon exec gives Chinese firms a tool to fight cyber threats
China is pushing forward an internet society where economic and public activities increasingly take place online. In the process, troves of citizen and government data get transferred to cloud servers, raising concerns over information security. One startup called ThreatBook sees …
Space Jam
The iconic 1996 “Space Jam” website was recently relaunched to promote the new movie. Thankfully, the developers still kept the old site around to preserve its intergalactic legacy. It’s not often that a website stays up mostly unchanged for 25 …
The number of billionaires spiked by 30% during the pandemic
The total number of billionaires exploded over the course of the coronavirus pandemic — and they individually became extraordinarily wealthier during the last 12 months. That’s according to a new report from Forbes, which does one of the most complete …
An Introduction to Prototyping with Figma
Prototyping is the process of turning a static mockup into an interactive and dynamic mockup (better known as a prototype). Bringing a static mockup to life is without doubt one of the most — if not the most — exciting …