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The Types of Freelance Design Clients You Should Avoid
Once they’re out of design school and battling it out in the real world, designers can find themselves in a pretty crappy predicament.
Maybe your teachers warned you to be as discerning as possible when taking on new clients (or maybe they told you the opposite, but you knew it was BS), but reality..
Those “Get The App” Banners
Why would a company promote a native app over their perfectly usable website?
We’d have to ask them, I suppose. But it’s hard not to see this push to native as a matter of priorities: that these companies consider native applications worthy of their limited time, resources, and money. They’re a wort..
Cash (Tiny jQuery Alternative)
The README for Cash is straightforward:
Cash is an absurdly small jQuery alternative for modern browsers (IE11+) that provides jQuery-style syntax for manipulating the DOM. Utilizing modern browser features to minimize the codebase, developers can use the familiar chainable methods at a fraction of..
Exciting New Tools For Designers, October 2021
There are some spook-tacular finds in this month’s October collection of resources and tools for designers and developers. From interesting tools that can help in the design process to boo-tiful typefaces, there’s something for everyone here.
Here’s what is new for designers this month…
Atropos
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Better Collaboration With Pull Requests
This article is part of our “Advanced Git” series. Be sure to follow us on Twitter or sign up for our newsletter to hear about the next articles!
In this third installment of our “Advanced Git” series, we’ll look at pull requests — a great feature which helps both small and larger teams of develope..
8 ASCII Artwork Snippets That Utilize CSS & JavaScript
If you’re of a certain age, you may remember a time when ASCII ruled the internet. Before snarky memes or even the widespread use of animated GIFs, ASCII artwork was passed around like a bowl of candy.
Some background:ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a standard way to e..
10 Free Plugins to Supercharge WordPress Comments
Commenting is built right into WordPress – which is great. But utilizing the default setup is an invitation to a big old mess.
Annoyances such as spam and the potential for abuse can make a blogger seriously consider closing off comments altogether. It’s understandable but far from hopeless.
There..
Popular Design News of the Week: October 4, 2021 – October 10, 2021
Every day design fans submit incredible industry stories to our sister-site, Webdesigner News. Our colleagues sift through it, selecting the very best stories from the design, UX, tech, and development worlds and posting them live on the site.
The best way to keep up with the most important stories..
The Case for ‘Developer Experience’
A good essay from Jean Yang.
What I mean by developer experience is the sum total of how developers interface with their tools, end-to-end, day-in and day-out. Sure, there’s more focus than ever on how developers use and adopt tools, and there are entire talks and panels devoted to the topic of so..
Jekyll doesn’t do components? Liar!
I like the pushback from Katie Kodes here. I’ve said in the past that I don’t think server-side languages haven’t quite nailed “building in components” as well as JavaScript has, but hey, this is a good point:
1. Any basic fragment-of-HTML “component” you can define with JSX in a file and then cros..
