asayer·3yUX: best practices for developers
User experience (UX) is a critical component of web development that can make or break the success of a website or application. UX refers to the user’s overall experience when interacting with a website, app, or product. A well-designed UX can increase user engagement, retention, and conversions, resulting in better commercial outcomes.
Visual Studio Blog·3yVisual Studio UI Refresh
The Microsoft Fluent design language provides a unified framework to create and deliver more productive, consistent, and accessible applications. The current visual language (which hasn’t been updated since Visual Studio 2012) has limitations for many customers. The new UI updates focus on three main pillars: cohesiveness, accessibility, and productivity.
GitHub Changelog·3yMutual connections now available on user profile
Force-pushing and Fetching In GitHub Desktop 3.2.3 makes force pushing and fetching through the newly added fetch/pull dropdown menu items as well as adding pull request comment notifications. Accessibility GitHub Desktop is actively working to improve accessibility in support of GitHub's mission to be a home for all developers.
Christian Heilmann·3yI just did a test to apply as a front end developer – and things aren’t going well
Christian Heilmann just did a test to apply as a front end developer - and things aren’t going well. It was a test that covered the basics of web development, CSS and accessibility and the rest would be a JavaScript exercise. The test suite was to implement a calculator with an alternative syntax to the usual infix notation.
Code Like A Girl·3yThe Power of Web Performance: How I Increased the Score from 27 to 99
The Power of Web Performance: How I Increased the Score from 27 to 99. Delivering a great user experience is critical for improving customer traffic to your website and business. This blog contains the list of things I did to improve the quality and performance of my NextJS website.
Josh W Comeau·3yCoding with voice dictation using Talon Voice
Coding with voice dictation using Talon Voice is a tool built specifically to help software developers work without using their hands. Talon includes its own phonetic mappings of (mostly) single-syllable words: air - bat - cap - drum. When I say “drum” into the microphone.
Community Picks·3yTesting Select Components with React Testing Library
This post explores the challenges of testing Select components in React and how React Testing Library can simplify the process. It covers best practices for testing Select components and provides examples for testing native HTML select elements and react-select components.
omg! ubuntu!·3yFirefox 113 Finally Makes Picture-in-Picture Mode Useful
Firefox 113 Finally Makes Picture-in-Picture Mode Useful - OMG! Ubuntu A new version of Mozilla Firefox is rolling out across Windows, macOS and, more importantly to us, Linux. Firefox 113 is an interesting update that enhances the browser’s capabilities in a number of areas.
The Verge·3yiPhones will be able to speak in your voice with 15 minutes of training
Apple today previewed a bundle of new features designed for cognitive, vision, hearing, and mobility accessibility. Users can create a Personal Voice by reading a set of text prompts aloud for a total of 15 minutes of audio. Apple says the feature uses ‘on-device machine learning’ to keep users’ information private and secure.