Software engineer with a crush on the web. Writes, codes and occasionally speaks. Preaches open-source.
When I first started building websites, the proposition was quite basic: take content, which may or may not be stored in some form of database, and deliver it to people’s browsers as HTML pages. Over the years, countless products used …
A couple of months ago I wrote about using WebPageTest, and more specifically its RESTful API, to monitor the performance of a website. Unarguably, the data it provides can translate to precious information for engineers to tweak various parts …
While the richness and interactivity of the average website has changed dramatically over the last decade, the same can be said about the expectations of those who consume it. This page has a list of reports that show how businesses …
Declaring font sizes in viewport units can produce really interesting results, but it does come with challenges. There are no min-font-size or max-font-size properties in CSS, so edge cases where text gets too small or too big are difficult to …
I vividly remember my first encounter with a content management system: It was 2002 with a platform called PHP-Nuke. It offered a control panel where site administrators could publish new content that would be immediately available to readers, without …
The following is a guest post by Eduardo Bouças. Eduardo is back to follow up on his journey of approaching media queries programatically. He’ll catch you up on how this started, where it’s went, and how that’s going.…
The following is a guest post by Eduardo Bouças. We all know WordPress is a CMS, but here Eduardo thinks about using it only as an API for content. No front end at all, just URL endpoints that …
Using media queries in CSS as part of responsive websites is bread and butter stuff to todays front-end developer. Using preprocessors to make them more comfortable to write and easier to maintain has become common practice as well.
I spent …
