Jul 6, 2017, 8:00 PM -04:00How to turn your website into a PWA
A Progressive Web App, or PWA, uses modern web capabilities to deliver an app-like user experience. Any website can be a PWA - here's how to do it.The "add to homescreen" prompt in a PWATurning a basic website into a PWA is not that hard and has a lot of real benefits, so I want to take a look at the three main steps necessary to achieve just that.But first, let me address some common misconceptions:1) Your thing does not have to be an “Application” to be a PWA.A Progressive Web App can easil...
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It's not still the early days
When I speak about the inefficiency of popular blockchains, or mention that we seem to be hurtling towards a 'web3' so centralized it challenges big tech's firm grasp on today's web, or point out that somehow no one has managed to find a positive use for blockchains that wouldn't be better served by one of the many more performant databases we have available to us these days, I often hear 'it's the early days'. -
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Nov 22, 2020, 3:02 PM -05:00 The Organic Web
If we lived close to nature in an agricultural society, the seasons as metaphor and fact would continually frame our lives. But the master metaphor for our era does not come from agriculture—it comes from manufacturing. We do not believe that we “grow” our lives—we believe that we “make” them. Just listen to how we use the word in everyday speech: we make time, make friends, make meaning, make money, make a living, make love. — Parker Palmer, “Let Your Life Speak” (97) You know what else we... -
Aug 1, 2020, 12:45 PM -04:00 
The amazing power of service workers
Today, I want to talk about service workers: what they are, and when and why you’d use them I won’t be digging into code specifics today. This one is going to be a lot more high level that looks more at strategies and approaches. I will be sharing code details in some future articles. Let’s dig in. What is a service worker? A service worker is a special type of JavaScript file that browsers install and store locally. -
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Matthias OttMay 12, 2019, 7:05 AM -04:00Into the Personal-Website-Verse
Social media in 2019 is a garbage fire. What started out as the most promising development in the history of the Web – the participation of users in the creation of content and online dialogue at scale – has turned into a swamp of sensation, lies, hate speech, harassment, and noise. Your Unfriendly Neighborhood Craving for attention and engagement, our timelines have changed. Algorithms now prioritize content from people with a huge following and everything that is loud and outrageous. It’... -
Jul 11, 2020, 9:27 AM -04:00 Bookmark of https://sarahchima.com/blog/css-specificity/
What is CSS Specificity?
CSS specificity is an important topic to understand if you want to get better at CSS. . In this article, we discuss what CSS specificity is and how it is used to determine which styles are applied to an element. -
Jul 11, 2020, 9:24 AM -04:00 A little bit of plain Javascript can do a lot
I’ve never worked as a professional frontend developer, so even though I’ve been writing HTML/CSS/JS for 15 years for little side projects, all of the projects have been pretty small, sometimes I don’t write any Javascript for years in between, and I often don’t quite feel like I know what I’m doing. Partly because of that, I’ve leaned on libraries a lot! Ten years ago I used to use jQuery, and since maybe 2017 I’ve been using a lot of vue.js for my little Javascript projects (you can see a ... -
Jul 1, 2020, 9:47 PM -04:00 
CSS-Tricks
In Defense of a Fussy Website | CSS-Tricks
The other day I was doom-scrolling twitter, and I saw a delightful article titled “The Case for Fussy Breakfasts.” I love food and especially breakfast, and -
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Matthias OttJun 28, 2020, 8:06 PM -04:00Fussy Web, True Meaning.
Sarah Drasner just published a fabulous article, In Defense of a Fussy Website, in which she makes the case that we should all design and build websites again that are a joy to visit. Sites with those little details that make you smile, with small delights and touches that really make users stay. When a site is done with care and excitement you can tell. You feel it as you visit, the hum of intention. The craft, the cohesiveness, the attention to det... -
Jun 2, 2020, 8:54 AM -04:00 
Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web - Neustadt.fr