Update (28/7/2017): Doesn’t work in Firefox as it cascades differently and this won’t work in browsers than don’t support Web Animations. Some clever attempts to break include background: linear-gradient(blue, blue) (that technically sets a generated image, not a color, but fixed it anyway in the Pen by animating background instead) and filter: hue-rotate(90deg) (I wouldn’t […]

API Simulator allows you to setup any number of static routes (URLs) on the host it runs on, allowing you to test a static JSON response. Might come in handy when building prototypes or sample apps: API Tester has been built in ~12 hours as part of an internal Service Worker hackathon, is nothing revolutionary and […]

Attention:  Unicorns are as real as advice in this article. As much as I hate to add an obvious disclaimer, I would hate it even more if actual juinors followed this! Now go and enjoy me breaking out of my usual serious role and have a little fun :) So you’re a junior web developer […]

Over the last few months, my previous team and I at Zynga has been working hard on a more granular, JS-based alternative to Jasy. Without further ado, meet the Instant Play plugin collection for Grunt: Grunt Dependency Resolver (npm, github) Grunt Cruncher (npm, github) Grunt Vendor Mutator (npm, github) In today’s post, I will talk […]

This blog post is cross-posted on the Sauce Labs blog. Check it out for more awesome sauce! Mocha Sauce is a bleeding edge project that connects Mocha with Sauce Labs. It started as a fork of mocha-cloud (a project that unfortunately doesn’t seem to be maintained any longer), but now lives on its own and […]

This article was also posted on http://code.zynga.com. Head over to read more about our technical marvels! Never heard about Jasy? Worry not – you are not the only one. Jasy is a web tooling framework (read: fancy JS build system). If Grunt is a cherry, Jasy is a wonderful cherry tree. In fact, Jasy is […]

I’m happy to announce a new pet project of mine: Domvas. Domvas implements the missing piece that connects the DOM and Canvas. It gives to the ability to take arbitrary DOM content and paint it to a Canvas of your choice. That dialog that is a pain to layout in Canvas but needs to be […]

I’ve been supercharging my development workflow in the last couple of days, and quite a few of you have asked me on Twitter to write a summary on my choices. Most of it centers around the excellent Sublime Text 2 text editor. Sublime is highly extensible through a Python-based plugin API, and by itself is […]

Update #1: It just came to my attention that CSS3 Pie does in fact continue to work in IE9. I quickly skimmed through the source code but couldn’t find out why their code would still function. If any CSS3 PIE reads this, please get in touch! Maybe not all hope is lost, after all. Nope. […]

Nowadays when most of you do the heavy lifting in JS, chances are you want to lookup URL parameters. I definitely need it often, and I have a little snippet that converts params in your URL to a nice JS object. Here it goes: // this object gets filled with params var params = {}; […]