In other languages: Swedish , Norwegian , Russian , German , Dutch , Portugese , Having heard so much good about petrol cars, we decided to test drive one. They are said to combine cheap price with long range and fast charging. A winning formula on paper – but how are they in real life? We sat us in…

keavy Feb 22, 2018 · 4 min read I work at GitHub, as a senior engineer. I’m not looking for a job. But I have been thinking about leadership and what I’ve appreciated most from various bosses over the years. Inspired by Chad Fowler’s “ Who I want to hire ”, I started noting who I want to work for ,…

Mandy Michael Sep 13, 2017 · 4 min read I recently had the opportunity to speak at Web Directions Code 2017 over in Melbourne. While there, I was part of a panel with Mark Dalgleish and Glen Maddern (who gave spectacular talks I might add). We’d just finished a set of talks about CSS, and during the…

Solving a well known a UI problem with React A. Sharif Nov 4, 2017 · 3 min read The following write-up is based on Stefan Oestreicher s blog post Slaying a UI Antipattern in Fantasyland which was originally influenced by Kris Jenkins excellent how Elm slays a UI antipattern . Just a quick overview…

Posted on Jul 12 2017 in Essays This essay by Greg Knauss first appeared in Offscreen Issue 8 (now sold out). I’m a programmer, and therefore live in a world of worst-case scenarios. Networks fail, hard drives crash, and those troublesome human beings persist in disgorging all sorts of nonsense into…

Does Google execute JavaScript? August 6, 2016 I’m told: Yes, it’s 2016; of course Google executes JavaScript . But I’m also told: Server-side rendering is necessary for SEO. If Google can run JavaScript and thereby render client-side views, why is server-side rendering necessary for SEO? Okay,…