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How we crafted a playful digital Christmas card in 3D on the web.
How we crafted a playful digital Christmas card in 3D on the web.
During one of our internal Hack Days, our developers made a simple 3D scene with A-Frame — an open source library that simplifies WebVR…
Hjörtur Hilmarsson
Nov 28, 2018
Why Fridays are Hack Days at 14islands
Why Fridays are Hack Days at 14islands
We reserve every Friday as a Hack Day at 14islands. Hack Days are a time for us to make our own passion projects, experiments, learn new…
Hjörtur Hilmarsson
Nov 15, 2018
Our Company Values at 14islands
Our Company Values at 14islands
As a studio, we are really just a group of humans working toward a common vision.
Hjörtur Hilmarsson
Nov 9, 2018
Building a Progressive Web App from scratch
Building a Progressive Web App from scratch
Progressive Web Apps bring a lot of potential to the web. The new capabilities make it possible to build native-like web apps that…
Hjörtur Hilmarsson
Jan 18, 2017
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The delivery experience is broken
The delivery experience is broken
I had two package deliveries this week with stuff I bought on the internet. In both cases the experience of getting the packages was…
Hjörtur Hilmarsson
Sep 28, 2016
Ways to build a mobile app without native technologies
Ways to build a mobile app without native technologies
Apps are a big part of our lives. They live on our mobile home screen and we use them to socialise, entertain us and use services.
Hjörtur Hilmarsson
Sep 21, 2016
Does Apple have the Courage to push the web?
Does Apple have the Courage to push the web?
One word that stood out after Apple’s iPhone 7 announcement was “Courage”.
Hjörtur Hilmarsson
Sep 11, 2016
Why we used Jekyll with Github Pages for our website
Why we used Jekyll with Github Pages for our website
Our website has been fully open source since we released it around two years ago. We built the site using Jekyll, a popular static website…
Hjörtur Hilmarsson
Aug 24, 2016
Why Phoenix is exciting for the modern web
Why Phoenix is exciting for the modern web
Ruby on Rails is a server-side framework that makes it possible to write database driven web apps in days, instead of weeks. I’ve been a…
Hjörtur Hilmarsson
Aug 15, 2016
The web is catching up on mobile
The web is catching up on mobile
Watching the web talks from GoogleIO 2016 and it made me want to 👏
Hjörtur Hilmarsson
May 28, 2016
Trends at SXSW Interactive 2016
Trends at SXSW Interactive 2016
Last week our full team went to SXSW Interactive, a big yearly festival held in Austin, Texas. It was a fun experience. Innovations being…
Hjörtur Hilmarsson
Mar 23, 2016
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