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. https://mxb.dev/assets/images/processed/eTNfnoSfA6-400.jpeg 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...
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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'. -
Jul 18, 2021, 7:36 PM -04:00 André Staltz - The Web began dying in 2014, here's how
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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 ma... -
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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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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
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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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Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web - Neustadt.fr
We are quietly replacing an open web that connects and empowers with one that restricts and commoditizes people. We need to stop it.
