Starting a career as web developer can be a daunting experience. I’ve just given a Q&A to students at a Korean university, and I figured that some of my answers might make for a neat cheatsheet on where to start if you’re new to the world wide web. None of this is new, and more […]

TL;DR: Try out the ShadowReader, and browse the source code. I’m happy to introduce the ShadowReader, a (fairly) production-ready, vanilla-JS implementation of the PWAMP pattern combining AMP and PWA. I’ve posted some high level details and motivation why I’ve built it on the AMP blog, but here are some highlights: The entire app (minus fonts, […]

If you’re using a static site generator like Jekyll or Grow (recommended), you know that commands like jekyll serve or grow run will spin up local web servers that allow you to live develop and preview your static site. Unfortunately, these generators don’t create a secure context behind an HTTPS domain, something I need often […]

For the recently launched Updates section on Web Fundamentals, we sorely needed pagination. The whole site on /web, including all sub sites (i.e. our Showcase, the Shows section, etc.) runs on a single instance of Jekyll, which made said task more difficult than it needed to be. If all you need is pagination for your single Jekyll […]

First things first: Web Audio is the real deal, and works impressively well on iOS-running devices. Even the biggest annoying limitation of the ugly HTML5 Audio past is gone – being able to play back only one sound at a time. Though, one important limitation remains on iOS: Web Audio is effectively muted until user […]