Engineering

I’ve had a sneaking suspicion for a whle that OKRs - as in Objectives and Key Results - are in fact clever device deployed by Google 1 to throw startups off track. The appeal of OKRs is in their perceived simplicity: any problem large, or small, organizational or technical, made solvable by careful setting of O’s and KR’s.2 It never plays out as promised: a few cycles deep into OKRs will leave startups wondering why they’re so dumb they can’t implement what seems like a pretty simple system.

Different methods and hacks for navigating around in your shell

Including some of my latest hot takes (okay they are pretty mild).

Transform your terminal with these 5 awesome Zsh plugins. These plugins enhance the appearance of your terminal and add extra functionality.

In this article, I talk about the main reasons that made me want to switch back from Developer Relations to an Engineering role.

Explore some best practices for setting up a continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline for more efficient frontend development.

By George Pirocanac A familiar question every software developer and team grapples with is, “How much testing is enough to qualify a softwar...

Originally published July 2015 In 2002, Professor Enrico Zaninotto, Dean of Economics at the University of Trento, gave a keynote at the Extreme Programming conference. It was the clearest technical talk I have ever seen, even though it was delivered by a non-programmer in an unfamiliar language. What set the talk apart was the clarity and depth of the thought behind it.

Welcome to my little corner of the Internet - Kapil Dutta

This is a little negative-nancy-ish, so if you aren’t feeling that right now — just close this tab 😜. It struck me recently how this list of plugins I saw in the 2023 Annual WordPress…

What's new in Storybook, November 2023

On Sunday, March 6, we migrated we converted more than 3.7 million lines of code with a single pull request. The next day, hundreds of engineers came in to start writing TypeScript for their projects.

In 2016, we took a big bet on React Native. Two years later, we’re ready to share our experience with the world and show what’s next.

Overview: We recently rethought the architecture for the JavaScript side of our codebase at Airbnb. This post will look at (1) the product…

Ryan Cooke | Android Engineer, Core Experience

Relive classic 1990s Mac and PC screensavers like Flying Toasters and Aquatic Realm, remade using modern CSS techniques like animations and transforms.

A resilient take on a flag component using CSS Grid. A flag is similar to the ubiquitous media object, but with a more nuanced alignment.

CSS variables are very powerful, and they allow to do a lot of interesting things. But there are no native conditionals that we could use in CSS with them. In this article I’ll talk about one of the ways we can fake such conditions with calculations.

For the millionth time: We need container queries in CSS! And guess what, it looks like we're heading in that direction.

I've bookmarked some icon sets lately, partly because I can never find a nice set when I need to. I figured I'd even go the extra mile here and blog them so I

Today’s websites are overflowing with animations—often too many. They get in the way of the content and slow down our busy users. But at the same time:

In this article, Yosra Emad explains how to create a rollercoaster path that a ball follows using cubic beziers and CSS transitions. You’ll also learn how the cubic-bezier function in CSS works in detail and how to stack multiple simple animations to create one complex one.

The topical idea of "how to think like a front-end developer" began for me as a series of podcast interviews on ShopTalk Show. That was in preparation for a