The best request is the one that never happens: in the fight for fast websites, avoiding the network is far better than hitting the network at all. To this end, having a solid caching strategy can make all the difference for your visitors.

That being said, more and more often in my work I see lots of opportunities being left on the table through unconsidered or even completely overlooked caching practices. Perhaps it’s down to the heavy focus on first-time visits, or perhaps it’s a simple lack of awareness and knowledge? Whatever it is, let’s have a bit of a refresher.

The new way to design, develop, and deliver software with confidence.

This is a list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted locally. Selfhosting is the process of locally hosting and managing applications instead of renting from SaaS providers.

CSS just got a sweet little upgrade. position:sticky just landed in Chrome 56. Sticky positioning in CSS lets us build some really neat interactions in very few lines of code. It’s useful for any time you want a UI element to stick around in view as the user is scrolling, but not become sticky until the element gets to a specific distance from the top/bottom/left/right egde of the scrolling viewport. It’s like a position:fixed element that’s a sleeper agent spy. It behaves just like a regular position:relative element - even fooling its own parents and siblings - until the secret distance is met, activatating the position:fixed behavior of the spy.

Automated auditing, performance metrics, and best practices for the web.

A REST client for almost any web service (Firefox and Chrome Extension)

Cog is a Drupal 8 base theme created and maintained by the Acquia Professional Service Front-end team.

Gulp, Yarn, Sass, KSS-node, Susy etc.

Easily add high-quality animation to any native app.

Lottie is an iOS, Android, and React Native library that renders After Effects animations in real time, allowing apps to use animations as easily as they use static images.

Say hello to a CMS framework for Node.js that supports in-context editing, schema-driven content types, flexible widgets, and much more.

QLColorCode Quick Look plugin for source code with syntax highlighting.

Mavo helps you turn your static HTML into reactive web applications without a single line of programming code and no server backend.

Open-source tools for WordPress application development.

It’s extremely useful to have a WCAG 2.0 checklist to hand when you’re working through the guidelines. A WCAG 2.0 checklist helps you to check your web accessibility progress, record how far you’ve come and set your targets out for the future.

Wuhcag is all about holistic web accessibility – that means taking everything about your website into account. That’s why I don’t rush you to make every web accessibility change at once – it’s too much for you to do and so it’s bad for your users. I love a structured approach to everything in life, and your website is no exception.

The Easiest Way To Document Your Project

SquidMan is a MacOS X graphical installer and manager for the Squid proxy cache. It is designed to operate as a "personal" proxy server.

WPGear.org is a compendium of useful developer tools for working with WordPress.

Aurelia is a JavaScript client framework for mobile, desktop and web leveraging simple conventions and empowering creativity.

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As Partner and Technical Lead, I encourage my employees to always be learning with an eye on improving the quality and efficiency of what we deliver to our clients. As an agency, it can be difficult to lock down a workflow. Each project can be vastly different. Yet, we still need to align our workflows and development environments as much as possible to ensure productivity is at its peak. sd

This guide was created to manage varying client work. I’ve spent most of my days recently inside of Vagrant machines banging on Python (Django) and Ruby (Rails). While utilizing MVC patterns and Foundation. Working in these true development environments opened my eyes to where our WordPress workflow failed. This post details how we built an efficient and repeatable workflow for teams developing on WordPress.

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