Simon McManus
Javascript Engineer
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Keeping it simple with CSS that scales - Andy Bell
CSS has a weird place on the web today. There’s a lot of polarisation, with the opinion being seemingly split on “CSS sucks” and “CSS rules, learn it better, fools”.
September 18th 2019
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NoJS Side-by-Side | nojs-side-by-side
A simple bookmarklet that displays the current URL with and without JavaScript side by side in the current window.
September 17th 2019
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target_s3bucket · mkloubert/vs-deploy Wiki
Deploys to an Amazon AWS S3 bucket.
September 17th 2019
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Remote Workspace - Visual Studio Marketplace
Plugin to access s3 from local
September 16th 2019
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Kobiton - Mobile Testing Platform with Real Devices
Build better mobile experiences by testing on real-devices while leveraging the latest in Appium test automation for seamless test script creation.
September 13th 2019
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Perfecto Testing
Take automated testing to the next level with Perfecto’s cloud-based continuous testing platform. From creation to execution and analysis, Perfecto has a proven, unified solution for your mobile and web testing needs.
September 13th 2019
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What is Pact good for? - Pact
Like every tool, there are situations that Pact is great for, and situations where other tools would be better. In the right situation, Pact should make testing your integrations less painful than traditional integration tests. In the wrong situation, it will probably be just as painful!
September 13th 2019
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CSS Grid: illustrated introduction - DEV Community 👩💻👨💻
I remember the first time I was learning CSS, and how I was excited to learn about float and inline display to place elements in the desired layout. I wonder how I would have reacted if a two-dimensional layout system was available at that time. Actually, even now I'm excited about this because it changes everything: the way we write our CSS but also the way we write our markup. With CSS grid it is easier than ever to build responsive, dynamic, and source order independent layouts.
September 13th 2019
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Font-display playground
Before we talk about what font-display is, let's talk about the lifetime of a web font. For a super detailed explanation of where web fonts fit in the browser rendering process, Ilya Grigorik has an amazing blog post on web font optimization. But, if we're just trying to understand the basics, there are basically three parts to it:
September 12th 2019
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Variable Fonts: making the promise a reality | Monotype
Bob Taylor, Monotype’s Font Technologies Director, offers his views on the promise of Variable Fonts and shares how Monotype and the tech industry are bringing this promise to reality. He shares a few Variable Font tests gone wrong, what we are learning, and introduces the newest Variable Font from Monotype.
September 11th 2019
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