The Role Of Illustration Style In Visual Storytelling
Role Of Illustration has been used for 10,000 years. One of the first ever recorded drawings was of a hand silhouette found in Spain, that is more than 66,000 years old. Fast forward to the introduction of the internet, around 1997, illustration has gradually increased in use. Popular examples of this are Google’s daily doodles […]
Solo Development: Learning To Let Go Of Perfection
Solo Development as expected from anyone who has ever tried building anything solo, my goal was not to build an app but the app — the one app that’s so good you wonder how you ever survived without it. I had everything in place: wireframes, a to-do list, project structure — you name it. Then […]
How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing
This article is a sponsored by Cloudways How To Design For High-Traffic product launches and sales typically attract large volumes of traffic. Too many concurrent server requests can lead to website crashes if you’re not equipped to deal with them. This can result in a loss of revenue and reputation damage. The good news is […]
Lesser Known Uses Of Better Known Attributes
Lesser Known Uses Of Better Known Attributes in HTML is long and well-documented. Even if you haven’t memorized them (and there’s totally nothing wrong with an author… er… random person off the street, who has), there are a bunch of places where HTML attributes you’re familiar with will have different or more specific jobs. Let’s […]
Tight Mode: Why Browsers Produce Different Performance Results
This article is a sponsored by DebugBear I was chatting with DebugBear’s Matt Zeunert and, in the process, he casually mentioned this thing called Tight Mode when describing how browsers fetch and prioritize resources. I wanted to nod along like I knew what he was talking about but ultimately had to ask: What the heck […]
What Does Artificial Intelligence (AI) Really Mean?
In 2024, Artificial Intelligence (AI) hit the limelight with major advancements. The problem with reaching common knowledge and so much public attention so quickly is that the term becomes ambiguous. While we all have an approximation of what it means to “use AI” in something, it’s not widely understood what infrastructure having AI in your […]