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Perspectives on UX/UI design, product engineering, and digital accessibility.

  • Blueprint
    Frontend Dev
    The 5-Pillar Frontend Architecture Playbook

    Discover a repeatable, five-step playbook to establish a robust frontend architecture that keeps your application responsive, maintainable, and performant from day one.

  • Bricks
    Agile & Delivery
    Why smaller, more frequent releases win

    Frequent, smaller releases are a more sustainable way to deliver software than large, infrequent deployments. Instead of bundling many changes into a single “big release,” teams ship incremental updates that are easier to test, understand, and adopt. This approach reduces risk, improves feedback loo

  • Runbook
    DevOps
    What's a runbook? And why your team probably needs one

    Most engineers have followed a runbook without ever calling it that. Here's what they actually are, why they matter more than most teams realise, and how to start building them properly.

  • Sticky notes
    Agile & Delivery
    How to Run a Simple, Effective Sprint Retrospective

    Sprint retrospectives (Or Sprint Retros) are one of the most valuable ceremonies in agile — yet they're often rushed, skipped, or run without structure. A well-facilitated retro gives your team space to reflect, surface issues early, and continuously improve how you work together. Here's a straightf

  • Accessibility Signage
    Accessibility
    Accessibility as Strategy: From Compliance Risk to Digital Advantage

    A practical, step-by-step WCAG 2.2 AA testing guide anyone can apply—combining automated and manual checks

  • Sitemap
    UX Research
    A Practical Toolkit for Integrating UX Methods into Your Development Lifecycle

    Good design isn’t guesswork. It’s the result of deliberate decisions grounded in user understanding and validated throughout the design process. This guide outlines 16 proven UX techniques—spanning discovery, research, design, and testing—to help teams make confident, evidence-based design decisions

  • Data Security
    Security
    How to Fix YouTube Embeds Blocked by Cloudflare’s "Security Headers"

    Cloudflare's "Add security headers" managed transform is often too rigid, causing it to block YouTube embeds by default. By replacing this "one-click" toggle with a custom Cloudflare Snippet, you can surgically add YouTube's domains to the allowed list, while maintaining a high security posture.

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    CMS Platforms
    Using Custom Icons in SilverStripe CMS Menu and Elemental Blocks

    By default, SilverStripe CMS uses Font Icons for menu, and at times, you would want to set your own custom SVG icons when there isn’t a sufficient icon and/or to be inline with your org brand guidelines. This article explains how can set those, in both cases — For use in CMS classes that extend Mode

  • Important for SEO and accessibility.
    CMS Platforms
    Step-by-Step Guide to Installing Drupal Security Updates

    This guide walks you through the process of safely applying security updates to your Drupal website. Security updates patch vulnerabilities that could expose your site to attacks, making timely installation critical for protecting your data and users.

  • Banner - Lazy Loading Components in VueJS
    Frontend Dev
    Lazy Loading Components in VueJS

    As your app scales, it is likely that your compiled JS bundle file will get larger and larger. With the help of the Vue 3 defineAsyncComponent method, we can now only load a component if and when needed asynchronously.

  • Test
    Frontend Dev
    Adding print styles to your website

    The process of adding print styles to your web, to make content more print friendly both from a readability/accessibility point of view, and from the point of removing clutter and reducing print cost.

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    Environment Setup
    Switch Between Multiple Versions of Node with NVM and Homebrew

    To seamlessly switch Node versions between projects, developers typically rely on NVM (Node Version Manager) for cross-platform flexibility or Homebrew for macOS management.

  • Browsers
    Frontend Dev
    What Browsers to Test in Cross-Browser Testing

    Cross-browser testing ensures consistency. Use analytics and guidelines to choose target versions. Use BrowserStack for platform testing and Browserslist for tool configuration. Autoprefixer automates vendor-specific CSS rules, saving manual coding time.

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