Frustration

Jeremy Keith talks about a couple of recent frustrating moments in his life. One regarding a musical instrument, one involving a build process:

That feeling of frustration I get from having wiring issues with a musical instrument is the same feeling I get whenever something goes awry with my web server. I know just enough about servers to be dangerous. When something goes wrong, I feel very out of my depth, and again, I have no idea how long it …

The post Frustration appeared first on CSS-Tricks.

Read more

Forms, Auth and Serverless Functions on Gatsby and Netlify

Abstracting infrastructure is in our DNA. Roads, schools, water supply networks—you get the idea. Web development is no exception: serverless architectures are a beautiful expression of that phenomenon. Static sites, in particular, are turning into dynamic, rich experiences.

Handling static forms, authentication, and backend functions on statically-generated sites is now a thing. Especially with the JAMstack pioneer platform that is Netlify. Recently, they announced support of AWS Lambda functions on front-end-centric sites and apps. I’ve been meaning …

The post Forms, Auth and Serverless Functions on Gatsby and Netlify appeared first on CSS-Tricks.

Read more

​Customize payment solutions with our enhanced platform

(This is a sponsored post.)

We’ve upped our game by using developers’ feedback to improve the Authorize.Net payment platform. Check out our new, streamlined API, better sample code and SDKs, and use them to provide your merchants with a secure, scalable payment solution. You’ll see that it’s a seamless and efficient way to make sure you and your merchants get paid!

Start playing

Direct Link to ArticlePermalink

The post ​Customize payment solutions with our enhanced platform appeared first on CSS-Tricks.

Read more

How WordPress Can Take Over The Rest of the Web in 2018

Who could have ever thought that an ordinary blogging website could grow to power 30 percent of the web? WordPress is today’s fastest growing CMS. Its fast growth and development have amazed the world. They have achieved a lot in a very short time and the businesses, developers, and marketers are now eager to know …
The post How WordPress Can Take Over The Rest of the Web in 2018 appeared first on Torque.
Read more

27 Inspiring Letterpress Style Posters

Are you planning on designing a poster with a retro or a vintage vibe? Not sure where to start? Then browse our hand-picked collection of letterpress posters and letterpress templates to find inspiration. Letterpress is one of the oldest printing techniques that date back to the early 1440s. Back in the day, this technique was […]
Read more

Transmit Droplets

Ethan Marcotte documented his workflow for storing GIFs in a web directory. Sometimes just SFTPing files into a folder is as fancy a workflow as you need, and in fact, modern workflows don’t have anything on it!

I’ve also used Transmit’s fancy features for this kind of thing. I prefer saving the connection as a Droplet, which is basically a little application you can drop a file onto and have it upload to exactly where you want it…say a GIF …

The post Transmit Droplets appeared first on CSS-Tricks.

Read more

Torque Toons: Guten Intolerant

Will you use the new “try Gutenberg” feature when WordPress 4.9.7 comes out? Don’t forget to check out our other editorial toons!
The post Torque Toons: Guten Intolerant appeared first on Torque.
Read more