Some thoughts on AI
Most of what I read about AI these days is bad. Does it have anything valuable to offer, and can it be used responsibly?
Deceptive patterns - just say no
Deceptive patterns are tricks websites use to deceive you into doing something you didn't mean to, usually involving a product or service the site is offering.
Migrating from Magento to WooCommerce
Magento is a powerful and popular ecommerce platform, however, there are many reasons to consider an alternative, such as WooCommerce.
Submit a form via a regular link
Every web user is familiar with both links and forms. What if you could submit certain forms as simply as clicking on a link?
TwitLinks – permalinks for Twitter
One of the biggest challenges of Twitter is keeping up with the deluge of content. The experience would be much better if every tweet had a permalink.
Scrolling fun and games with jQuery
Parallax scrolling has been popular for some years now. Watch the nearer clouds scroll faster than the ones in the distance! But the technique has its uses.
Performance tips
The performance of your site – the speed with which it loads and responds to user actions – is crucial to its success. There's a lot you can do to improve this.
Using SASS with sprites
The SASS preprocessor promises to take much of the grunt work out of developing CSS. Lengthy, repetitive spriting code would especially benefit from this.
HTML5 – it's the little things
Much has been written about the major benefits of HTML5, but there are some overlooked details I really appreciate as well.
Browser detection with jQuery
For at least a decade, browser detection has gotten a bad rap. "Test for the browser's capabilities, not the browser itself," we're repeatedly told. But there are times when nothing else will do.