How to help your text editor help you

by Evy How to help your text editor help you Tips & tricks for writing more efficient and enjoyable code Over six internships, I’ve had lots of lovely mentors who have watched me code and let me watch them code. (I ? pair programming! [https://content.pivotal.io/blog/pair-programming-considered-extremely-beneficial] ) Thanks to them, there

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How to write better CSS in teams with ACSS — A dynamic Atomic CSS library

by kushagra gour How to write better CSS in teams with ACSS — A dynamic Atomic CSS library Photo by Štefan Štefančík [https://unsplash.com/photos/UCZF1sXcejo?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] Writing good Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is difficult and it becomes more difficult in a team where multiple developers write CSS. Through this

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Two days of work for 11 seconds of TV

by James Barnard Two days of work for 11 seconds of TV Blink and you’ll miss it: How a two-day design project went by in an instant I recently completed a short project for the Sky Atlantic series The Tunnel, “a British-French crime drama”. With the third series Vengeance soon

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Noise is all around us.

by Donavon West Noise is all around us. It’s even in our source code. And it can distract us from what is important. Image: CC0 [https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/] license by Tookapic [https://www.pexels.com/photo/night-television-tv-video-8158/]Noise! Noise! Noise! It’s all around us. That person on the train playing a video game on their phone with

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How Typography Determines Readability: Serif vs. Sans Serif, and How To Combine Fonts.

by Harshita Arora For digital design, it’s important to know and understand how to use and how to combine different fonts. There’s a font for every mood! This post is going to give you a quick introduction to the biggest families in Typography: Serif and Sans Serif. And how, as

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Designing a font from scratch — and submitting it to Google Fonts in 24 hours

by James Barnard Designing a font from scratch — and submitting it to Google Fonts in 24 hours One Day Builds I’m a huge fan of Adam Savage’s One Day Builds [http://www.tested.com/search/?term=One+Day+Builds]. At the beginning of the day he starts with a pile of materials, and ends up holding something

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Introducing CSS Gridish: An Open Source Tool to Help Your Team Adapt CSS Grid Today

Today, I’m excited to introduce a new open-source tool from IBM called CSS Gridish [https://github.com/ibm/css-gridish]! CSS Gridish takes design specs of your product’s grid and builds out several resources for your team to use: * A sketch file with artboards and grid/layout settings for designers * CSS/SCSS code

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The Age of Self-Serve is Coming to an End

by Alex Bunardzic The Age of Self-Serve is Coming to an End Bots will soon free us from the trap of “self service” (image credit: Robot and Frank [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1990314/])The history of the human race is basically a history of technology. Some would object that history of human race is pretty

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