Web Directions Lazy Load ’22 session spotlight–How to build 5x faster electron apps
How to build 5x faster electron apps
Category: Blog
Web Directions Lazy Load ’22 session spotlight–Web performance and the planet
Web performance and the planet
Web Directions Lazy Load ’22 session spotlight–Edge Computing with Akamai
Edge Computing with Akamai
Web Directions Lazy Load ’22 session spotlight–Designing distributed applications
Designing distributed applications
Random links for the week of April 10
some weeks I write a thematic weekly email/post. Others I just throw together a bunch of links to things I’ve found interesting recently. This week, the latter! Or is it? Ways of Being, a new book by James Bridle James Bridle is one of the most popular speakers we’ve ever had at our conferences. His […]
Web Directions Lazy Load ’22 session spotlight–Edge tooling — What, when, and where to do the work of delivering your site.
Edge tooling — What, when, and where to do the work of delivering your site.
Everything Old School is New Again
If there’s any advantage to getting old(er) (other than it beats the alternative), it’s that while the techniques and technologies we use to solve them may change, the challenges we as Web focussed developers face very often don’t, of which several things I read this week reminded me. The User Agent Strings We don’t often […]
Hover Spotlight: New in ‘22 — the CSS browsers will ship this year
Whether you’ve been writing CSS for a year, or for two decades, it seems we always need more from what browsers provide. A lot of great solutions to long-standing problems are landing in 2022. Come hear about many of the most requested additions to CSS — including parent selectors, better viewport units, tools for dealing […]
Web and flow
If we consider the way most transformative technologies develop, their evolution follows a pattern that has been characterised among other ways by the Gartner hype cycle which “claims to provide a graphical and conceptual presentation of the maturity of emerging technologies through five phases”. In short, technologies go through the phases of hype, disillusionment, enlightenment […]
Web Directions Hover ’22 session spotlight–Real-world CSS custom props
Real-world CSS custom props
Web Directions Hover ’22 session spotlight–Are CSS Pre-Processors Becoming Obsolete?
Are CSS Pre-Processors Becoming Obsolete?
Weekly Links–the what’s new in ’22 edition
I’ve been thinking more than a little lately about just what it is I do at Web Directions. On one level the answer is pretty straightforward–we run conferences for web and digital folks. But the more important question is what do we do for you and folks like you? Those who visit our site, attend […]
Web Directions Hover ’22 session spotlight–Responsive patterns with subgrid
Responsive patterns with subgrid
Conffab Videos of the Day
For the last few years we’ve been working away on Conffab, our on-demand streaming platform for conference talks. It took a little bit of a backseat as we got our online conferences up and running after COVID hit, but it’s been getting quite a lot of our attention of late, and it’s starting to really […]
Web Directions Hover ’22 session spotlight–Effective CSS refactoring
Effective CSS refactoring
