In his presentation at CSSDay, Stephen Hay goes through the...
In his presentation at CSSDay, Stephen Hay goes through the history of layout on the web, and explains the principles behind the next generation CSS concept for component-level layout: flexbox...
View ArticleHopping Back on the Writing Wagon
About twenty months ago, I was writing constantly. I wanted needed to share what I had learned during my years of experience in a web agency. I was also writing a book and maintaining this blog fairly...
View ArticleWraith: a front-end regression testing tool by BBC Responsive News
Wraith: a front-end regression testing tool by BBC Responsive News: responsivenews:Today we are announcing the release of a front end regression testing tool called Wraith. This tool is something we...
View ArticleIn this internal teach & learn session at Paypal, Hoa Doan...
In this internal teach & learn session at Paypal, Hoa Doan Klein goes through the core principles behind OOCSS and SMACSS, and then explains how her team applied those principles to build their...
View ArticleIn his talk at Smashing Conference 2013, Nicolas Gallagher walks...
In his talk at Smashing Conference 2013, Nicolas Gallagher walks us through his path to CSS architecture, when and why we need it.Nicolas also speaks about the Suit framework he created, an HTML/CSS...
View ArticleObjects in Space
Objects in Space: In this post, Andrew Colclough describes how he breaks down BEM objects (blocks) into Sass partials.One of the best introductions I have read on the topic of CSS architecture using...
View ArticleIn his presentation at Take Off 2014, Patrick Hamann presents...
In his presentation at Take Off 2014, Patrick Hamann presents the problems front-end engineers are facing with CSS when developing high performance web applications. He goes through the techniques we...
View ArticleRWD is not the answer, it is just part of it
Today, I tweeted:Challenging responsive web design is a long and difficult process. But when it finally shows its shortcomings, then it becomes a lot easier.— Kaelig (@kaelig) February 18,...
View Article“In 2012 GitHub started using Sass. What started as an...
“In 2012 GitHub started using Sass. What started as an experiment in internal apps has become our preferred way to build and style our web applications. In this talk I’ll cover how we did it, what...
View ArticleHow the BBC should practice Responsive Web Design
Tom Maslen writes:UX need to alter how they perceive responsive web design, they need to address the scenarios of hostile browsers, tiny screens, slow connection speeds and touch inputs by default....
View ArticleOn April 24th, I spoke at Front-End London about how we bridge...
On April 24th, I spoke at Front-End London about how we bridge the communication gap between developers and designers at the Guardian.Here are a few resources I mention during the talk:theguardian.com...
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Net Awards: Sass “game changer of the year”
Friday evening was Sassy at the Grand Connaught Rooms!Friday, Sass won an award at the Net Awards, a ceremony that rewards the best technologies and individuals in the industry for their achievements....
View ArticleImproving Sass code quality on theguardian.com
Improving Sass code quality on theguardian.com: You won’t believe how the Guardian front-end developers managed to reduce their time reviewing code with this old simple trick…
View ArticleOn "Responsive design works best as a nip'n'tuck"
DHH wrote a very interesting post about his view on Responsive Web Design. He says: By going with dedicated templates, we don’t have to include needless data or navigation that’s going to be hidden by...
View ArticleIn his presentation at O'Reilly Fluent Conference, Dan Tocchini...
In his presentation at O'Reilly Fluent Conference, Dan Tocchini goes through the weaknesses of current CSS tools for layout and then explains how GSS, Grid Style Sheets solves complex layout...
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Responsive to ambient light with Media Queries and CSS variables
Media Queries Level 4 are super exciting. In combination with Custom Properties (aka CSS Variables), they can help respond to the user’s environment in a very elegant way.Let’s say we want to boost the...
View ArticleRe:develop Conference: Bridging the gap between developers and designers at...
I had the pleasure of speaking at re:develop alongside amazing professionals: Liz Keogh (who gave one of my favourite talks of this year), Paul Adam Davis from Ghost, Tom Byers from GDS, Phil Bennet,...
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We’ve made it.
We’ve made it.: responsivenews:We’ve finally crossed the line.After almost 4 years, 5000 pull requests from 50 contributors, we’ve migrated the BBC News site to a totally new stack. We now have a...
View ArticleMindful documentation for (web) components and frameworks
Mindful documentation for (web) components and frameworks: Many individuals and teams fail at documenting their projects properly, effectively drawing other developers away from their code....
View ArticleIntroducing Design Systems Ops
Introducing Design Systems Ops: Who bridges the gap between the design systems and the engineering team? I call these enablers: “Design Systems Ops”.
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