PageSpeed Insights: Removing Render-blocking CSS

If you write javascript which dynamically loads CSS files on your page, you have probably seen PageSpeed Insights complain to you about removing render-blocking CSS. Fixing render-blocking javascript is relatively easy: just add an async attribute to the script, and include it before the closing body tag, or use an async loader like Google Analytics. Fixing render-blocking CSS is a little trickier.

How Our Developer Squads Use Slack, Phabricator & Google Docs

Maximizing our productivity is key to meeting goals and releasing on time. We use all sorts of project management tools, but we also have a series of informal guidelines as to how we use Slack, Phabricator, and Google Docs among our developer squads. Specifically, how we integrated into their API, follow informal internal guidelines of conversation, and how the tools themselves work great to make our work great.

7 Things to Consider When Making iOS and Android Apps with Cordova or PhoneGap

The promise of PhoneGap/Cordova development is quite alluring. Use your existing HTML/JS/CSS skills (and team) to build cross-platform mobile applications for iOS/Android, and other mobile platforms. As a bonus, you can then update your existing codebase once for all platforms instead of maintaining separate repositories (or paying specialized developers). This post will talk about some of the questions and decisions you should consider before beginning your next cross-platform Cordova project.

The Case for a Stricter Flux

With companies like Yahoo, AirBnB, Atlassian, and Github embracing React.js, I think it’s safe to say that Facebook has set a new standard in front-end development with this remarkable library. What drew me to React, at first, was its genius approach to rendering. What has kept me using it are things like propTypes, invariant, and the belief that it’s a library’s responsibility to yell at a developer when they are doing something wrong.