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- Mar 09 2017
Lets Define My Favorite Test
Since starting our work on Test262, the official test suite for the ECMAScript programming language, we’ve seen our fair share of strange tests. For nerds like us, every test has the promise to teach us something new, make us laugh, or bury our head in our hands. But unlike choosing between movies, books, or 18th […]
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Lets Define My Favorite Test
- Mar 08 2017
Visualizing the Health of the Internet with Measurement Lab
How do you visualize the “Health of the Internet”? This was the challenge posed to the Data Vis team at Bocoup by our client Measurement Lab, a nonprofit that collects millions of Internet speed tests every month from around the world since 2009. This data is invaluable to policy makers, researchers, and the general public […]
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- Mar 03 2017
Three Years with the WordPress REST API
In December WordPress 4.7 shipped with a built-in REST API, giving every WordPress site out-of-the-box REST endpoints for the core WordPress data types such as posts, comments and categories. This release is the culmination of almost four years of work by a globally-distributed contributor team, and I’m proud to say that here at Bocoup we’ve […]
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- web applications,
- wordpress
- Mar 02 2017
CSS Grid: Responsive and Accessibility
Reflow your content with ease In the first post I wrote about my very first learnings with CSS Grid, I showed how I took a pattern I’ve used many times and reproduced it with a lot less code. After learning about how to do something simple, I started wondering about the other properties of CSS […]
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- CSS,
- CSS Grid,
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- Feb 24 2017
CSS Grid: Design possibilities
As I started to learn about CSS Grid and the new base layout possibilities, I was struck by how much this changes things for design. I don’t think I’m alone in this, either: a search through CodePen reveals plenty of designers and developers thinking about this as well. There are so many new ways to […]
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- CSS Grid,
- design,
- responsive
- Feb 23 2017
Getting Started with VoiceOver & Accessibility
If you are a web developer working on a Mac, you can become a hero for thousands of people out there by assuring that anything you create for the web can be read properly by a screen reader. This blog post is going to teach you how to access and wield this super power that […]
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CSS Grid: Learning new layout
I’ve been writing base layouts for CSS a long time. Come next month, I’m going to be using a new feature to do that work for the first time in many years, CSS Grid. Yes, flexbox came along and I used it for some pieces of the layout, but it didn’t change the way I […]
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- CSS Grid,
- responsive
- Feb 10 2017
Exploring New Technologies for Making Maps. Vector Tiles & WebGL (Part One)
Maps are both practical and political. They possess undoubtable utility for navigating the physical world and have a long history of being used to shape and reshape the our social and political conceptions of the world. The ability to mark a territory, carve up a continent (or remember one), count a people, or map our […]
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- Feb 08 2017
Data Visualization at Bocoup, 2016 Recap
2016 was an exciting year for the Bocoup DataVis team – we wanted to start a new tradition of sharing some of our key highlights, and telling you more about the fun things to come this year. Here goes! 2016 In summary (in no particular order): The very excellent Peter Beshai joined our team, bringing with […]
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- Feb 07 2017
Performance Under Pressure
The following is a transcript of a talk given at various events throughout 2016, including Smashing Conf NYC, and An Event Apart Chicago. I’d like to begin with an exercise in relaxation. As many of you know, I am the picture of mellowness—ol’ Namasté Marquis, they call me. So, close your laptops. Close ’em. No […]
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- performance,
- responsive web design