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Announcing Ionic 2 Final

Today, I’m incredibly excited to announce Ionic Framework 2.0.0. Before we get into that, though, a little history lesson is in order… Back in March 2015 the Ionic team was given a unique opportunity to take all the lessons learned building a mobile framework on Angular 1 and reimagine it for a new and fast […]

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JavaScript Modularity Shaming

Pete Hunt of React fame recently got into an online discussion about the pros and cons of Webpack vs. Browserify . In the discussion he inadvertently coins a hilarious term for a form of rhetoric in some circles of the JavaScript community - “Modularity Shaming”. React itself has been on the receiving end of…

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IPFS and Their Gateways

The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is according to the Wikipedia description: "a protocol, hypermedia and file sharing peer-to-peer network for storing and sharing data in a distributed file system.". It works a little like bittorrent and you typically access content on it using a very long hash in an ipfs:// URL…

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Stop adding email tracking links to phone numbers

My Chinese takeaway delivery was late. Very late. I flipped open the confirmation email sent by Just-Eat to double-check I had all the details correct. At the bottom was a "click to call" link. Hurrah! I clicked dial, and this is what filled my screen: An absurdly long phone number. Bemused, I went to inspect the link…

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Building the new hypermedia systems

A shiny new edition of Hypermedia Systems is out! Apart from incorporating typo and grammar fixes sent in by readers, the book was completely redesigned inside with a new layout. To achieve a much higher fidelity of design, we ported the book to Typst --- the hot new LaTeX replacement.

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Animating CSS Grid

Soooo, Jen Simmons just dropped a surprise bombshell on Twitter – CSS Grid grid-template-columns and grid-template-rows properties are now animatable in Firefox Nightly! Naturally I had to jump in and have a go right away!