27th January 2020 at 17:27
Andy announces moving his CSS courses to piccalil.li and introduces his work as a front-end developer and founder.
Andy announces moving his CSS courses to piccalil.li and introduces his work as a front-end developer and founder.
A CSS tip for selecting SVG elements to ensure they fill width correctly, with a link to a code gist.
A developer shares their personal routine of waking at 5 AM to study algorithms, data structures, Python, and machine learning to advance their tech career.
A developer shares his initiative to create a list of companies using F#, and offers advice on introducing new technologies to a team.
A personal account of the creation of UTF-8, the dominant character encoding for the web, by one of its co-inventors.
A retrospective on KnightOS, a Unix-like operating system written in assembly for TI z80 calculators, focusing on its unique constraints and design.
A technical case study on improving WebXR VR performance by moving a Three.js app's physics calculations off the main thread.
A technical guide on implementing interactive container functionality in a custom container runtime shim, explaining stdin/stdout handling.
A guide to setting up and writing component tests for Svelte applications using Jest and the Svelte Testing Library.
A guide to handling AmbiguousViewMatcherException in Espresso for Android UI testing, including counting and selecting specific views.
A guide to optimizing SVG files for web use, covering manual cleanup and automated tools like SVGOMG to reduce file size.
A technical guide on setting up Azure Pipelines to run integration tests for Azure AD-protected APIs, including service principal creation.
Explores advanced JavaScript template literal features, including tagged templates used by libraries like styled-components.
A software developer explains why using enumerated states is better than multiple boolean flags for managing UI state in React applications.
Andy Bell announces major changes and the future direction of Piccalilli, a publication for front-end developers.
Andy shares how switching to Netlify's nameservers dramatically improved his site's time to first byte, with a Web Page Test report.
A quick fix for Fantastical or Mac Calendar not displaying Google Shared Calendars by adjusting sync settings.
Andy shares a technical tip about improving DNS resolution by pushing domain nameservers to Netlify, along with an introduction to his work.
A technical guide on configuring Kafka Connect to stream data from Kafka topics into InfluxDB, covering schema requirements and connector setup.
Explores 5 key use cases for AWS Lambda, including HTTP APIs, data processing, and IoT, highlighting its cost-efficiency and scalability.