An emoji-filled learning journey about the trade-offs of different website architectures, complete with gifs, diagrams, and demo apps. — If you’ve been hanging around the internet, trying to build websites and apps, you may have heard some words in conversation like static site or server-side rendered (SSR) or single-page app (SPA). But what do all of these words mean? How does each type of application architecture differ? …

or, what I wish I had known how to say when you told me, at age ten, that I intimidated boys (and meant that was a bad thing) I should come with a warning label: do not stare at the sun, she is so bright you might forget how to see anything…

Learn how to accurately and effectively advocate for yourself and grow in your career by recording your accomplishments. — Heads up, we’ve moved! If you’d like to continue keeping up with the latest technical content from Square please visit us at our new home https://developer.squareup.com/blog At some point in your career, you’re going to have to prove to someone that you’re worth it: worth hiring, worth promoting, worth the…

I dreamed myself into your city. I woke up in the house you own, woke up in your bed covered in the quilts my mother gave me, dappled by sunlight filtering through the oaks outside your window. I felt your reality with my bare soles; I stood in your kitchen and the tiles were…

In the garden you gave me, I planted a tree and see how strong the roots did grow — plunging deep into loam and earth, they broke new ground and planned to stay. Where did the grass go? In this cold soil only frost grows. Where are the vibrant blooms, the flowering…

To be with you is to walk alone on quiet city streets — a nearly silent soundtrack of leather soles and their soft krisks against the paper flames of leaves and mottled cobbled stones, the air so still as near to hear each thud of heart— and in solitude find communion…

What might have been the fury of moths is merely loss to age and worry — which spread with less ferocity, demand fewer chemicals and containment strategies. What might have been a hole in a sleeve presents a portal to other worlds with far greater worries, far heavier fates; even curses are blessings and mercies.

The difference between Ember actions and DOM events and why it matters, plus a really rad flowchart. — Heads up, we’ve moved! If you’d like to continue keeping up with the latest technical content from Square please visit us at our new home https://developer.squareup.com/blog A few days ago, I was working on a really exciting new feature. As part of rolling out these changes, I implemented an onboarding…

I’ve been conducting a study of brokenness in the city with an emphasis on glass and dreams. Everywhere I go, I catalogue: car windows, shop windows, home windows, bottles. The sharp shards sparkle in chaotic constellations. To each I contribute my own disappointments for the next stranger to appreciate the odd beauty exposed in the shattering.