Raymond Hettinger is a Python Core developer and has an amazing knack of explaining concepts related to Python in a succint manner. His talk at PyCon…
Read more →The Python mock library has largely been a black hole when it comes to efficiently unit testing a Python code. Hopefully, this article will help you understand the essential bits to bump up that test coverage.
Read more →Rowan Manning writes about the importance of writing a friendly README for your project, which is perhaps in my opinion is the most underrated yet…
Read more →Over the weekend, I pushed out a new update to the Atomize IO app and this post is all about, explaining how those numbers are calculated.
Read more →Roughly around 1430 hours Pacific time on Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016, @npmjs observed hundreds of failures per minute for missing dependencies…
Read more →Not-so long ago I remember writing about CSS Selectors Level 3. Fast-forward 14 months, I'm now writing about the next specification of CSS that aims to improve and enhance CSS3 by introducing wide-range of new selectors and pseudo-classes.
Read more →The PEP8 standard has been known to be mysteriously obscure for the beginners. Kenneth Reitz , the man behind Requests: HTTP for Humans has re…
Read more →ES6 known to many as Harmony or es-next or ES2015 (preferred way) is the latest specification in the JavaScript world. In this article we'll go through some of the improvements and enhancements that ES6 has to offer.
Read more →Atomize is now the new Optimize in the frontend development domain. Atomize.io is a handy little tool to check how much your website can benefit…
Read more →Mobile-first applications have now been replaced by Offline-first applications. Predictably, offline first applications enhances the user experience…
Read more →Over the weekend, I dished out a realtime in-browser code editor, perfect for collaborating online with other developers. It can also be used as a…
Read more →After Google and Mozilla‘s solutions for web components, it is now Microsoft’s turn to enter this space with their public release of the X-Tag…
Read more →After a long time, I have finally managed to write an article for CSS-Tricks , on my beloved topic, the HTML5 meter element. This time, I've used…
Read more →Python 3.5 was released in the 2nd week of September, 2015 and brought a bunch of useful changes with it. In this article, I'll be discussing some of the enhancements to the language that I found extremely useful in the latest release.
Read more →The intent of this post is to introduce you to the Pandas library by performing common tasks like reading, writing files and manipulating data.
Read more →Recently, I've started using GTmetrix to analyze and improve the performance of my personal website. It allows you to audit your website against…
Read more →Matthew Dean , a core-team member of Less wrote an interesting piece, comparing Less with Sass and highlighting important differences between the…
Read more →Python's got a bunch of very useful magic methods that most of us do not use in day-to-day practice. This article is all about the dunder methods that can add magic to your python code.
Read more →A web app to generate Atomic CSS from the input markup that uses Atomic classes. It is based on node.js library, Atomizer by Yahoo, which is then…
Read more →Mike Pirnat wrote about the diaper pattern almost 6 years ago, but the essence of his writing is still fresh in my mind. It refers to the practice of…
Read more →I wrote a new article for Sitepoint after a while about migrating your web application to the latest version of the Polymer library. I am not…
Read more →The awesome folks at Webucator converted my article on Regular Expressions in Python into a training video which can be found here on Youtube . I…
Read more →This is my first attempt with React.js to build a basic Todo app. React has gained massive traction as a JavaScript library for building user interfaces largely because it is built by Facebook and their engineers have challenged the age-old best practice for separation of concerns
Read more →This post is all about the introduction of HTTP 2.0 into the mainstream by putting it side-to-side with some of the best practices that we have engineered and cultivated over the years.
Read more →Yet another article for SitePoint toying with the idea of creating a custom element for a payment form using credit card with Polymer . Lately…
Read more →The way scoping of index variables work in Python might surprise a few! This article is all about dealing with them by considering few scenarios and understanding the behavior.
Read more →The UX Launchpad team has done an in-depth analysis and a comprehensive review of comparing the mapping experience on iOS and Android. The article…
Read more →Few would argue that Codepen has been an indispensable tool for the Frontend developer community. Although, I have been using Codepen for a long time, only recently, I realised that it can also be used to beautify your compressed CSS code.
Read more →Not-so long ago I remember writing about CSS Selectors Level 3. Fast-forward 14 months, I'm now writing about the next specification of CSS that aims to improve and enhance CSS3 by introducing wide-range of new selectors and pseudo-classes.
Read more →Just need two players and a mouse to play with! First player to connect four consecutive blocks in any direction, wins. Built using HTML5, CSS3 and…
Read more →Google , Yahoo and others for long have been strongly recommending to serve your static assets from a cookieless domain for a faster site…
Read more →Allan Reyes wrote an extremely pertinent article describing the pitfalls of writing concise code with the intention of prematurely optimizing the…
Read more →It shouldn't come as surprise that JavaScript doesn't have classes! However, the language is potent enough to match any OO-language and has the ammunition to functionally represent OOP concepts.
Read more →We all know that Heydon Pickering has been doing some amazing work in the field of accessibility. His next project shows us how to make native forms…
Read more →Style guide and best practices to write perfect, performance-oriented and consistent Pythonic code. Written and maintained via Readme.io , an…
Read more →The natural progression from my previous article on Sitepoint was to explain how easily you can create custom elements with Polymer in as much depth…
Read more →A collection of style guides and best practices for popular programming languages to write perfect, performance-oriented, memory-efficient and…
Read more →Louis contacted me with an opportunity to write for Sitepoint and replied with this article. I am quite intrigued with the concept of web…
Read more →Regular expressions are hard but this post is not going to make them appear harder. Instead it attempts to simplify the complications that surround the world of regex.
Read more →I wish I had seen this much earlier in my career, but nevertheless it is better to be late than never. All thanks to Sebastien Gabriel for putting…
Read more →Well, if you think loading script in HTML is as simple as including the script tag then you need to read this piece by Jake Archibald. The article…
Read more →Neat little trick I learned from Joshua Hibbert's website, where he has effectively used this technique to design backgrounds stretching infinitely on either directions but the content respects the width.
Read more →Randomly generating numbers in Sass is easy using the random() function that was released in v3.3. Interestingly, we can extend this concept to randomly generate colors as well.
Read more →High fives to the folks at GeekPause for featuring me on their blog, as Geek of the Week ! Not sure if I deserve the title by any stretch of…
Read more →Little old, but Boris Smus introduced a minimal design concept of a business card way back in 2010 that looks incredibly simple but still quite…
Read more →Thanks to Chris , I once again got the amazing opportunity to write this article as a guest author for CSS-Tricks and also got featured on…
Read more →Quite often I run into situations where I need to modify the CSS styles of the pseudo elements dynamically. This post shows you different ways in which it can be done!
Read more →The encryption flaw that punctured the heart of the Internet and has left almost two-thirds of the world's websites vulnerable to attack by hackers.
Read more →Having recently discovered the power of wget command, I have written this article to remind myself the various ways we could use this command to download the world wide web.
Read more →I'm glad that the CSS working group wiki compiled a list of mistakes that were made in the design of CSS and are willing to correct if anyone…
Read more →Love it if you like it and do not forget to love other pens as well that you might find interesting. The experiment is responsive and works equally…
Read more →Debuting today, is the new RSS-to-Email feature that I have enabled on my blog using Sendicate. Subscribe to get notified to read new articles on my blog.
Read more →Although a bit old, Ivan Zuzak has written about an interesting concept of using comments in issue tracker of Github hosted blog repository…
Read more →I have used Unix for the major portion of my professional career, yet I have always failed to understand the intricacies surrounding the file permissioning system. This article is an attempt to dig deep and augment my understanding about them.
Read more →It’s that time of the year again when the long list of nominees is declared for the Net Awards 2014. Read on to know who am I voting this summer for Net Awards 2014.
Read more →Apparently, Google Chrome has been infected with a wierd bug that causes web fonts to randomly disappear and fallback to the default system fonts…
Read more →Setup custom domain on the user page and then all the project pages of Github repositories will automatically appear under the same url.
Read more →A collection of awesome and ready-made color palettes featuring popular websites with ready to use hexadecimal color codes for your next front-end…
Read more →For quite a long time now, I have been toying around an idea of a perfect build tool to deploy front-end projects. This article is all about my wishlist from such a tool.
Read more →A Selector represents a structure that can be used as a condition to determine which elements a selector matches in the document tree. CSS-Tricks…
Read more →There is no official guide for each and every CSS shorthand property. So I wrote a gist to document all the shorthand declarations that we could ever…
Read more →Thanks to Chris Coyier, for offering me the opportunity to write for CSS-Tricks once again. This article also got featured on, Web Design…
Read more →An overview of the current state of OpenType feature support in web browsers, based on the CSS syntax proposed by the latest draft of the CSS3 Fonts…
Read more →I wrote this article as a guest post for CSS-Tricks and also got featured on, Web Design & Development News : Collective #79 by Codrops. HTML…
Read more →Jack Morgan did an awesome job in redesigning the brand and identity of Squared also known as We are Squared for Google. In this article, Jack…
Read more →Preprocessors solves a problem that doesn’t really exist! Continue reading my musings about using a pre-processing tool for a language like CSS.
Read more →This article demonstrates the basic usage of the HTML5 File APIs to do common tasks like reading the properties and content of the files. The HTML…
Read more →I wrote this article as a contributing author for the TXP Magazine and was featured in Issue No #3 . Big thanks to Destry Wion for proof reading…
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