We all have fears and doubts. It’s not different for you than for me. Over the last weeks, “well-known” people on Twitter started to share mistakes they made in life or their careers. I think it’s very helpful to read that **we all make mistakes**.

We all…

OAuth2 is the protocol that enables anyone to log in with their Facebook account. It powers the “Log in with Facebook” button in apps and on websites everywhere. In this article, Zack Grossbart will show you how “Log in with Facebook” works and will explain…

For many years MySQL and PostgreSQL were competing databases, which addressed slightly different audiences. Here's why you always should go for PostgreSQL!

In a world between building accessible interfaces, optimizing the experiences for users, and big businesses profiting from this, we need to find a way to **use our knowledge meaningfully**. When we read that even the engineers who built it don’t know how…

Meetup is one of the world’s largest network of self-organized clubs and community groups. It helps people connect face-to-face with other…

An introduction to the inline formatting context. Explores line-height and vertical-align properties, as well as the font metrics. Understand how text is rendered on screen, and how to control it with CSS.

A little question is a big deal when it comes to shaping people’s experience with your product. How do we ask people for their gender in a…

Six logo design mistakes committed by designers and business persons causing logos to fail.

Google decided to launch a war against interstitials that ruin the user experience. This article explains what exactly is being penalized, what’s allowed, and some workarounds to help you cope with this new penalty.

Network neutrality—the idea that Internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all data that travels over their networks fairly, without improper discrimination in favor of particular apps, sites or

The open source Git project has just released Git 2.13.0, with features and bugfixes from over 65 contributors. Before we dig into the new features, we have a brief security announcement.
For those...

Vue.js is a micro JavaScript framework for creating reusable and reactive components on your site. Front-end frameworks vary widely in both size and scope, where Vue.js stands out is in its minimal design and focus on adaptability. You have the choice of…

When did you take your last **vacation**? For many of us, it was probably a long time ago. However, since quite a while, I stumble across more and more stories about companies that take unusual steps vacation-wise. Companies giving their employees a day off…

How travel sites Kayak, Expedia, Airbnb, Hotwire, Priceline, and Google Flights drive immediate user engagement while keeping an eye on longer-term retention.

When working with creative designers on web page designs, it’s fairly common to receive multiple Sketch or Photoshop artboards/layouts, one for each breakpoint. In this article, Jake Wilson is going to examine how to create scalable, fluid typography across…

Have you ever wanted to make a website that non-technical folks can edit right in the browser? Or have you ever wanted to make a website that presents an editable collection of items (e.g. your portfolio)? Or simply upload images to a website you made, right…

Five years ago I wrote a post that got some good attention on why you should use Postgres. Almost a year later I added a bunch of things I missed. Many of those items bear repeating, and I’ll recap a few of those in the latter half of this post. But in the…

Google today announced that it is making Kotlin, a statically typed programming language for the Java Virtual Machine, a first-class language for writing Android apps. Kotlin’s primary sponsor is JetBrains, the company behind tools like IntelliJ. It’s 100…

When we set out to build MeetSpace (a video conferencing app for distributed teams), we had a familiar decision to make: What's our tech stack going to be? We gathered our requirements, reviewed our team's skillset and ultimately decided to use vanilla JavaScript…