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Abstraction vs Skeuomorphism

The ebb and flow of skeuomorphism and how to effectively use it in your design.
Joshua Ogle
February 28, 2017
- Design
Slicing up Rails Application.js for Faster Load Times

How to profile page load performance in Chrome and break out modular JavaScript assets.
Oli Peate
February 27, 2017
- Performance
- Rails
Mastering the Vim Language

From the Boston Vim Meetup, Chris Toomey demonstrates taking command of mappings and text objects to master Vim!
Thom Obarski
February 24, 2017
- Vim
- Boston
Neat 2.0 Building the future of floated Sass grids

Understanding different types of existing float grid systems, finding their strengths/weaknesses, and discovering something better.
Will H McMahan
February 22, 2017
- Neat
- Bourbon
- Design
- Sass
- Open Source
- Web
Balance

Balance is another great example of how viewers give physical dimensions to non-physical things. Balance is usually described as how “heavy” elements feel to the viewer according to how elements are arranged.
Joshua Ogle
February 21, 2017
- Design
How to manage your Python projects with Pipenv

Use Pipenv to simplify the management of dependencies in your Python projects.
Murtaza Gulamali
February 20, 2017
- Python
- DevTools
- Web
Emacs as a Python IDE

From the New York Emacs Meetup, Drew Werner shows us how to turn Emacs into a multi-language IDE.
Thom Obarski
February 17, 2017
Android Interpolators: A Visual Guide

An app for visualizing Android’s various Interpolators.
Amanda Hill
February 16, 2017
- Android
- Design
- News
- Open Source
- Mobile
- Kotlin
Validation, Database Constraint, or Both?

What happens when we stop using validations for data integrity and instead use them for user interface?
Derek Prior
February 15, 2017
- Web
- Rails
Form and Space on the Web

We occupy three-dimensional space. Sometimes it’s fun, sometimes it’s dangerous, but that is where we live and it influences how our brains are accustomed to interacting with the world.
Joshua Ogle
February 14, 2017
- Design
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