Feb 24, 2017Making Open-Source Accessible for AllHow a small open-source contribution made search accessible to blind developers in technical documentation sites. — Do you make your open-source projects accessible? Let’s be honest: it’s rarely a priority. We can blame the lack of learning resources, poor tooling, or pretend that our project’s audience doesn’t include people with disabilities. …Accessibility11 min read
Nov 4, 2016A Blind Person Loaded Your Website, You Won’t Believe What Happens NextThis is probably what happens: That’s right: nothing (or at best, a random stream of nonsensical information). Why did this happen (or rather, didn’t)? Because like many others, your website isn’t accessible to people who are blind. Actually, this previous sentence was a…Accessibility2 min read
Nov 2, 2016Announcing sASS Dart 🎯You may have read the introductory post for Dart Sass, a totally new implementation of Sass, completely re-written by Natalie Weizenbaum who happens to be a major collaborator on both Sass and Dart (Hacker News’ favorite language). Sass Fatigue? What’s next? Like everybody else, you migrated from Ruby Sass to Node Sass…Sass2 min read
Sep 13, 2016Making sense out of Sass 3.5 first-class functionsConfused about the latest Sass Release Candidate blog post? So was I. Sass 3.5.0-RC.1 marks the introduction of a new data-type: “first-class functions”. In the release candidate announcement, there is a four-paragraph long section about first-class functions that mentions a ton of details without showing any code. …Sass4 min read
Mar 15, 2016Design Systems OpsThe best products are built by teams with great communication bridges between designers and engineers. Whether you’re one or the other, at the end of the day… we’re all shipping software. When a Design System is invited to the party, communication is even better. But who will bridge the gap…Agile6 min read
Sep 1, 2015Origami design principles at the Financial TimesOrigami helps the Financial Times build digital products better and faster. Most teams at the Financial Times use it in one way or another, and many of the FT developers and designers are active contributors to the project. In a gist, Origami is: a user-interface components library, a cohesive set…Financial Times4 min read
Jul 1, 2015Why Web Components will make the web a better place for our userstl;dr Web Components v1 is the foundation that will help us build better component libraries, enabling developers to deliver a refined, maintainable and consistent user experience across products. Last Saturday, I attended Edge conference in Facebook’s London office. …Web Components5 min read
Apr 9, 2015Mindful documentation for (web) components and frameworksMany individuals and teams fail at documenting their projects properly, effectively drawing other developers away from their code. Fortunately, the most common documentation pitfalls are quite simple to overcome. …Web Development9 min read
