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This article is a sponsored by Luzmo In this article, I’ll introduce you to Luzmo Flex, a new feature from the Luzmo team who have been working hard making developer tooling to flatten the on-ramp for analytics reporting and data visualization. With Luzmo Flex, you can hook up a dataset and create beautifully crafted, fully … Read more

Consider the early days of the internet, when websites like NBC News and Amazon cluttered their pages with flashing banners and labyrinthine menus. In the early 2000s, Steve Krug’s book Don’t Make Me Think arrived like a lighthouse in a storm, advocating for simplicity and user-centric design. Today’s digital world is flooded with choices, information, … Read more

Google Analytics is great, but not everyone in your organization will be granted access. In many places I’ve worked, it was on a kind of “need to know” basis. In this article, I’m gonna flip that on its head and show you how I wrote a GitHub Action that queries Google Analytics, generates a top … Read more

I was recently asked by a student to help with a seemingly simple problem. She’d been working on a website for a coffee shop that sports a sticky header, and she wanted the hero section right underneath that header to span the rest of the available vertical space in the viewport. Here’s a visual demo … Read more

In the early days of the web, I remember how annoying it was when print designers would claim they could design websites, too. They assumed that just because they could design for one medium, they could design for the other. That assumption often led to bad user experiences. The skills for effective web design are … Read more

Lush green slowly turning into yellows and reds in the Northern hemisphere; nature reawakening in the Southern part of the world: September is a time of change. A chance to leave old habits behind and embrace the beginning of something new. And, well, sometimes it only takes a small change in routines to spark fresh … Read more

In Part 1 of this brief two-part series, we developed an application that turns images into audio descriptions using vision-language and text-to-speech models. We combined an image-to-text that analyses and understands images, generating description, with a text-to-speech model to create an audio description, helping people with sight challenges. We also discussed how to choose the … Read more

JavaScript comes with a lot of built-in functions that allow you to carry out so many different operations. One of these built-in functions is the Math.random() method, which generates a random floating-point number that can then be manipulated into integers. However, if you wish to generate a series of unique random numbers and create more … Read more

Typography is much more than just text on a page — it forms the core of your design. As a designer, I always approach selecting types from two angles: as a creative adventure and as a technical challenge. Choosing the right typeface for a company, product, or service is an immensely important task. At that … Read more

Modern JavaScript regular expressions have come a long way compared to what you might be familiar with. Regexes can be an amazing tool for searching and replacing text, but they have a longstanding reputation (perhaps outdated, as I’ll show) for being difficult to write and understand. This is especially true in JavaScript-land, where regexes languished … Read more