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PWA Directory Includes Colordinates
My web app, Colordinates, an app that displays a colour value based on your geolocation, has been included in the PWA (Progressive Web App) Directory.
Year Review 2016
Theres a lot I wish I could undo about 2016… I’m not sure anyone had a great year. I persisted and managed to get quite a lot done. Here’s what I wouldn’t undo.
Side Project Learning
Side projects are a great opportunity to focus on something specific and learn some things at the same time. Each project had different deliverables and things I wanted to learn. This is my experience and what I learned from each side project.
Pen Apps Collection
Having made a few single-serve Pens, such as Colordinates and Embriage Ipsum. I began a collection of app-like pens, simple Pens with a single purpose.
10,000 Hop Over Effect Views
See 10,000 Hop Over Effect Views by Paul (@plfstr on CodePen. Sorry, code demo failed to load
Semantically Integrated CSS
A recent A List Apart article Meaningful CSS: Style Like You Mean It, by Tim Baxter has caused a lot of furious posts in the frontend community. Personally, I think the subtext of the article is a response to class-happy and div-tastic reinvention of the wheel using non-semantic markup, rather than a call to abandon current CSS approaches that its been taken as.
Agony of Mobile Browser Choice
I have a dilemma coming. Its the classic native vs web argument but with a new slant. That old argument was always phrased hypothetically pitching a generic phone platform versus a non-specific browser. Reality is not that simple.
Flexbox Film Credits
I saw a lot of classic films over the Christmas break. As the credits were rolling for yet another classic, I looked at the dotted divider between film character and actor and something in my brain said ‘flexbox’, and this is what happened.