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heroku-ssl - Quickly and easily add SSL to Rails applications

**With great power comes great responsibility**. This week I found some resources that got me thinking: Service Workers that download 16MB of data on the user’s first visit? A Bluetooth API in the browser? Private browser windows that aren’t so private at…

When I came across this Codepen that shows an amazing animation of A star wars AT-AT Walker that was built ENTIRELY with CSS…

If you are reading this article, you know that adding custom styles to default checkboxes and radio buttons using just CSS is a pain. If…

Avoid common performance issues by teaching your site how to adapt.

How to help users be successful with the forms you are designing

Taking your first steps into VR as a UX or UI designer can be daunting. VR experiences range from the mundane to the wondrous, their complexity and utility varying greatly. In this article, Sam Applebee & Alex Deruette will share a process for designing VR…

In this article, Lea Verou explains what an HTML API is, why they’re useful, and which important lesson developers can learn from them. Keep reading to find out how to design a good one. You might be wondering, “All HTML and CSS authors know JavaScript, right?”…

Building a RESTful Web API is super easy using this in depth Django article

You know when someone texts you and some characters shows up as rectangles? Those rectangles are called tofu. Google wants to do away with them for good.

Where front-end build tools came from, how they've grown, and where they're going in 2017 - CodeKit vs Grunt vs Gulp vs Webpack and NPM scripts.

Creating a clock in Sketch might not sound exciting at first, but we'll discover how easy it is to recreate real-world objects in a very accurate way. You'll learn how to apply multiple layers of borders and shadows, you'll take a deeper look at gradients…

Introducing: php-ds

**Everyone here can have a big impact on a project**, on someone else. I get very excited about this when I read stories like the one about an intern at Google who did an experiment that saves tons of traffic, or when I get an email from one of my readers…

A free web development tutorial for complete beginners

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As web developers, we know how easy it is to end up with web page bloat. But loading a webpage is much more than shipping bytes down the…

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” — Abraham Lincoln