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The Case for Consistent Documentation
April 21, 2021Words can't begin to express the anxiety I felt leaving my first job last spring. As I put in my notice, a question kept nagging me: how could I wrap up two years in two weeks?
Erika SmithWhy Have Design Technologists?
April 8, 2021A Design Technologist can move between the design and engineering worlds seamlessly. They can change their shape and blend in depending on the environment, and therein lies their power: they are powerful advocates for holistic thinking.
Paula LavalleChats About urql: With Max Stoiber
March 23, 2021A chat with Max Stoiber, a JavaScript engineer from Vienna in Austria, who's a well known constant in the React community, co-creator of styled-components, serial co-founder of Spectrum, Changefeed, and Feedback Fish, and specialty coffee geek.
Phil PlückthunBuilding 3-D Web Experiences With react-three-fiber
March 18, 2021What if you could build 3-D scenes with React? You can! react-three-fiber is a library that lets you do exactly that.
Brian MathewsHow to Remain A Successful Product Designer In Our Current Digital Hellscape
March 16, 2021As digital product designers, digital detaching is a tough feat to accomplish. To be successful, we need a deep understanding and plenty of practice using devices.
Mark PrescottThe State of Reason in 2021
February 25, 2021The question, "Is Reason ready?" still looms large in every conversation I have about the language. In this piece, I hope to answer that question by exploring Reason's evolution over the last half-decade—how it's evolved, how it's competing with TypeScript, how it's changing JavaScript for the better, and why it may (and may not) be worth investing in now.
Parker ZieglerStores: Making State Global Without React's Context API
February 23, 2021In this article we're going to explore some drawbacks of context-based state in typical application architecture, then explore an alternative construct, Stores, which should ultimately help us write cleaner code and increase our in-app performance.
Max YingerA Deep Dive into Debugging Cypress, iframes, & Runtime Code Modification
February 18, 2021As software engineers, a large portion of our time is spent researching, reproducing, and fixing bugs. Being able to effectively discover, track down, and resolve bugs is one of the most important skills in our toolboxes.
Dillon MulroyGetting To Know Kadi Kraman
February 12, 2021I feel so very fortunate that I found a dream career. I love working in tech, I love building things that people get to use, I love solving problems, and I love that I get to continuously learn new things.
Kadi KramanIntroducing Spectacle's Enhanced Architecture
February 10, 2021Introducing Spectacle's all new architecture, which includes several under-the-hood improvements that improve the overall experience with a couple API changes based on community feedback.
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Matt HinkBuilding Future UIs
January 28, 2021What is it about futuristic sci-fi UIs that feel so futuristic and appealing? Can we build some of these with the web technologies we have today?Brian MathewsWelcome Catleah!
January 26, 2021Formidable's strategic design team is growing quickly. Time to meet one of the newer members, Catleah Cunanan!Achieving Reusability With React Composition
January 13, 2021In this article, you'll learn how to use React Composition to create reusable and extendable components. This will help you identify opportunities to remove duplicate code and make your application easier to maintain.
Christian Ipanaquetrace-pkg: Package Node.js apps for AWS Lambda and beyond
December 15, 2020Packaging Node.js applications for the cloud can be slow and tedious. We introduce trace-pkg, a general purpose tool to quickly and efficiently package up your application code and dependencies for deployment in AWS Lambda and beyond!
