Powerful Image Analysis With Google Cloud Vision And Python Powerful Image Analysis With Google Cloud Vision And Python Bartosz Biskupski 2019-01-09T13:45:32+01:00 2019-01-10T12:02:39+00:00 Quite recently, I’ve built a web app to manage user’s personal expenses. Its main features are to scan shopping receipts and extract data for further processing. Google Vision API turned out to be…
How To Design Search For Your Mobile App How To Design Search For Your Mobile App Suzanne Scacca 2019-01-08T14:00:40+01:00 2019-01-09T11:26:46+00:00 Why is Google the search behemoth it is today? Part of the reason is because of how it’s transformed our ability to search for answers. Think about something as simple as looking up the definition…
Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word] Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word] Vitaly Friedman 2019-01-07T12:00:13+00:00 2019-01-07T12:09:31+00:00 Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Is it expensive JavaScript, slow web…
HTML5 SVG Fill Animation With CSS3 And Vanilla JavaScript HTML5 SVG Fill Animation With CSS3 And Vanilla JavaScript Marina Ferreira 2019-01-04T13:00:19+01:00 2019-01-04T12:33:22+00:00 SVG stands for Scalable Vector Graphics and it is a standard XML-based markup language for vector graphics. It allows you to draw paths, curves, and shapes by determining a set of points in…
How Much Should You Get Paid To Build Websites In 2019? How Much Should You Get Paid To Build Websites In 2019? Suzanne Scacca 2019-01-03T13:50:00+01:00 2019-01-04T12:33:22+00:00 (This is a sponsored post.) When a business owner is in need of a new website, one of the first answers they’re going to go in search of is:…
How To Learn CSS How To Learn CSS Rachel Andrew 2019-01-02T14:00:30+02:00 2019-01-03T11:52:05+00:00 I get a lot of people asking me to recommend to them tutorials on various parts of CSS, or asking how to learn CSS. I also see a lot of people who are confused about bits of CSS, in part because of outdated…
2018: A Smashing Year In Review 2018: A Smashing Year In Review Rachel Andrew 2018-12-31T14:00:30+01:00 2019-01-01T10:36:47+00:00 As we come to the end of 2018, I spoke to some of the Smashing team, to get some thoughts on what the past year has been like for Smashing Magazine. We’re a small and fully remote team, communicating…
New Year, New Beginnings (January 2019 Wallpapers Edition) New Year, New Beginnings (January 2019 Wallpapers Edition) Cosima Mielke 2018-12-31T13:30:00+01:00 2018-12-31T12:30:27+00:00 Maybe you’ve already started into the new year when you read this, maybe you’re still waiting for the big countdown to begin. No matter what: Let’s welcome 2019 with a fresh wallpaper! To give you…
Will PWAs Replace Native Mobile Apps? Will PWAs Replace Native Mobile Apps? Suzanne Scacca 2018-12-28T12:30:52+01:00 2018-12-28T11:38:39+00:00 A developer friend of mine has decided to build a progressive web app for his new company. When I asked why he opted for a PWA instead of a native app, he said: “Because the PWA is the future…
Common CSS Issues For Front-End Projects Common CSS Issues For Front-End Projects Ahmad Shadeed 2018-12-27T13:30:11+01:00 2018-12-27T12:44:54+00:00 When implementing a user interface in a browser, it’s good to minimize those differences and issues wherever you can, so that the UI is predictable. Keeping track of all of those differences is hard, so I’ve put together a…
