tech/webdev magazine

November 2, 2016

A Study Plan To Cure JavaScript Fatigue

Wednesday, November 02, 2016 Teklinks

Like everybody else, I recently came across Jose Aguinaga’s post “How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016”. It’s clear that this post hit a nerve: I saw it reaching the top spot on Hacker News not once but twice, it was the most popular post on /r/javascript as well, and as of right now it has over 10k likes on Medium (which is probably more than all my own posts put together).

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How Do You Adjust Google Chrome’s UI Scaling?

Wednesday, November 02, 2016 Teklinks

Everything can be going along nicely until a program gets a new update that suddenly turns everything into a visual mess, like scaling up the UI, for example. Is there a simple solution? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has some helpful solutions for a reader’s frustrating browser UI problem.

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Design Principles: Introduction To Hierarchy

Wednesday, November 02, 2016 Teklinks

The need for technical skill in graphic design continues to grow as technologies and interfaces change. Yet, how have fundamental understandings of visual hierarchy, perception and composition changed along with new interfaces? The modern concept of human visual perception is rooted in psychological study. Thus, the way that we see and perceive graphic information will always be the same, despite continually changing graphic interfaces.

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Artsy Media Pop Up Effect

Wednesday, November 02, 2016 Teklinks

Today we’d like to share some artsy fun with you! We created some proof-of-concepts for simple media pop ups. The idea comes mainly from Forward Festival’s website and Tim Holman’s rad GifLinks project. We adventured ourselves with mix-blend-mode, masks and clip-path.

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