Category Archives: progressive enhancement

Today’s Readings

The latest installment in my ‘Today’s Readings’ series, offering my rants and thoughts based on findings from around the world-wide web, including #automation, #css, #cwv, #perf, #pwa, #rss, #seo and more. Happy reading! Continue reading

Using Resource Hints to Improve the Page Load Experience

As webpages become more complex, they also become larger and slower. The browser then has a tougher time finding all of the assets it needs. But we can help by giving the browser a few hints… Happy hinting! Continue reading

Today’s Readings

The latest installment in my “Today’s Readings” series, ranging from a11y, to query languages, through CSS, JS and HTML, and even a trip down memory lane. Happy reading! Continue reading

Switching to night-mode (no, really this time)

Hopping on the bandwagon, joining all the fun, just trying to fit in with the cool kids, I finally wrangled this site’s CSS to honor your preference for light or dark color-scheme… Live it up! Continue reading

Today’s Readings

The latest installment in my “Today’s Readings” series, offering my rants and thoughts based on findings from around the world-wide web. Happy reading! Continue reading

“Switching to night-mode” (sort of)

Want to give your users the option of a “dark” or “night” mode? Me too! Then I tried it, and decided “maybe later?”… Continue reading

Today’s Readings

The latest installment in my “Today’s Readings” series, offering my rants and thoughts based on findings from around the world-wide web. Happy reading! Continue reading

Converting WordPress to Web App: Adding “Add to home screen” functionality

In this final installment of my Converting WordPress to Web App series, I add “Add to home screen” functionality! The best way to do this has changed a little over the past several years, so I will present a few options, pick the current best practice, and walk through adding this to my site, completing this journey from standard WordPress blog to an installable, offline-ready web app So let’s get started! Continue reading

Converting WordPress to Web App: Adding Caching and Offline Support

In this fifth installment of my Converting WordPress to Web App series, I look into Adding Caching and Offline Support! And to do this, we’re gong to take advantage of the latest darling of the web development, the Service Worker. Service Workers allow us to monitor HTTP Requests and provide alternate functionality. This allows us to handle offline situations, and provide locally-cached assets rather than fetch them from the server. All of this gives our users a better experience, and that’s what it’s all about! So let’s get started! Continue reading

Converting WordPress to Web App: Adding a Deployment Process

In this fourth installment of my Converting WordPress to Web App series, I look into Adding a Deployment Process! Rather than relying on the tried-and-true, manual FTP process, we continue our march into automation, recruiting a service to keep an eye on our repo and partially automate the process of moving our files from here to there! So let’s get started! Continue reading