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HTTP/2 And The Performance Conversation Changing Shape
A practical article about HTTP/2 in 2015, and why front-end performance work was starting to move beyond simply reducing the number of requests.
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Service Workers And The First Serious Conversation About Offline Web Pages
A 2015 reflection on service workers, offline behaviour and why web pages needed to start thinking more carefully about unreliable networks.
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React Native And Component Thinking Moving Beyond The Browser
A practical look at React Native in 2015, and why the interesting part was not only mobile development but the idea that interface thinking could travel across platforms.
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AngularJS 1.3 And When Two-Way Binding Needed More Discipline
A practical look at AngularJS 1.3, richer client-side interfaces and why two-way binding needed structure once applications started becoming more serious.
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React 0.12 And Components Starting To Feel Less Strange
A practical look at React 0.12, JSX, component thinking and why the idea of building interfaces from self-contained pieces was starting to make more sense in 2014.
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HTML5 Becoming Official And What That Meant In Real Projects
A practical look at HTML5 becoming a W3C Recommendation in 2014 and why the moment mattered even though developers had already been using many parts of it for years.
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WordPress 4.0 And Making Content Management Feel More Polished
A practical look at WordPress 4.0 and why improvements to writing, media management and plugin discovery mattered for real client websites.
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Material Design And The Return Of Rules To Interface Design
A practical look at Material Design in 2014 and why a structured design language was interesting beyond the visual style itself.
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Gulp And Keeping Front-End Build Steps Readable
A practical look at why Gulp-style build tasks became attractive in 2014 as front-end projects needed repeatable asset processing without becoming harder to understand.
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Bootstrap 3.2 And The Front-End Framework Becoming Part Of Normal Project Work
A practical look at Bootstrap 3.2, reusable front-end patterns and why frameworks became useful only when they were treated as a starting point rather than the finished design.