It turns out, developers really hate making buttons. Just ask Material UI (MUI), Ant Design, Tailwind CSS, Ionic, Bootstrap, or any of the other (and there are a lot of) successful UI component libraries out there. Each of them offers (at minimum) dozens of pre-designed core UI elements — like buttons. Objectively, it’s much harder to […]
Controversial, for starters. Apple and Google’s rules around in-app purchases are, let’s say, hotly debated. Every transaction through the Apple App Store and Google Play Store is subject to a not insubstantial service fee — 30% (or 15% for developers whose apps transact less than $1M annually). Unsurprisingly, that means most (uh, all?) developers and businesses don’t […]
When I talk to people about how Features-as-a-Service is changing application development for enterprises, one of the first questions a lot of them ask is, “Uh, what is a feature?” That’s a fair question. App dev isn’t short on specialized, context-sensitive jargon (and whatever that stuff means technically, colloquially, it’s kind of the Wild West). […]
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working through MDN’s Front-End Web Development course. It’s actually fairly new, and according to the release notes, was officially launched in June 2020. I was looking for a resource like this mainly to improve existing skills, and to see what new things I could learn from fundamental topics. Having […]